Boasting a 580,000 square-foot spherical enclosure full of 1.2 million programmable LED puck lights, the Las Vegas Sphere, it could possibly be argued, at present sits as the head of venue design.

Able to internet hosting as much as 20,000 concertgoers, the venue, since opening in 2023, has hosted acts from throughout the music spectrum, from Eagles, U2 and Lifeless & Firm within the rock world to bop artists like Anyma and Zedd.

Certainly, increasingly artists appear eager to leap on the bandwagon and see how their distinctive inventive types fare on the Sphere’s ma-hoosive spherical display, together with Metallica, who just lately made waves by asserting their 2026 residency on the venue.

However not everybody is sort of so satisfied, it could appear. Talking to American Songwriter, Kiss frontman Paul Stanley explains why the glam rockers had been by no means tempted on the considered performing on the venue.

“In direction of the top of the [End of the Road farewell] tour, individuals had been saying, ‘Why don’t you play the Sphere?’” Stanley recollects. “The reality of it’s, the Sphere minimises a band. It makes a band miniature. You’re not going there to see a band – you’re going to see screens.”

Whereas Kiss formally hung up their black-and-white outfits and make-up baggage in 2023 with an enormous swansong set at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard, the band are set to proceed with a string of extensively anticipated avatar reveals, by which hologram know-how will likely be used to mission their likenesses onto the stage, very similar to ABBA’s Voyage reveals.

So it could appear Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer aren’t completely averse to new and rising applied sciences, simply not the Sphere itself as an idea. He continues:

“We needed to include the best of know-how, however we need to be the centre of it. It’s a really, very totally different expertise than going to see a postage stamp with a band on it. That is the antithesis of that – it’s 180 levels from that. The present goes to be spectacular, nevertheless it’s solely pretty much as good as what you set into it.”

Stanley concludes: “In case you’ve seen the ABBA [Voyage] present, everyone who’s there may be having an incredible time. You change into immersed in these 4 individuals on stage. This takes it even additional.”

Paul Stanley isn’t the one rock veteran towards the thought of taking part in on the Sphere. In August 2025, Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson revealed he hated the thought of the band taking part in on the venue, saying: “What’s the purpose of even being there, in case you’re a band?”

Kiss’s avatar reveals are tentatively scheduled for 2028. Try a listing of upcoming occasions on the Las Vegas Sphere.