{"id":51918,"date":"2025-11-15T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/can-you-make-us-immortal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T21:08:08","slug":"can-you-make-us-immortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/can-you-make-us-immortal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Can You Make Us Immortal?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manager Doc McGhee offered <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/tags\/kiss\/\">Kiss<\/a>\u00a0fans in Las Vegas a sneak peak at three big projects the band is planning to release in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>During the &#8220;Future of Kiss&#8221; panel at Kiss Kruise: Land-Locked in Las Vegas, McGhee was joined by Johan Lagerl\u00f6f from Pophouse, the company who bought Kiss&#8217; catalog and image rights <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/kiss-sells-catalog-name-logo-makeup\/\">for a reported $300 million<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Lagerl\u00f6f recalled the imposing question the band asked him before signing the deal: &#8220;Can you make us immortal?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With help from other panelists, he and McGhee then updated fans on the three tent-pole projects currently in the works to help the group take the next steps towards that goal.<\/p>\n<h3>The Kiss Avatars Look Much Better Now<\/h3>\n<p>First up was Thierry Coup, the creative director for the band&#8217;s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/kiss-avatars-will-take-some-time\/\">avatar show<\/a>, who reminded fans once again that the preview <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/kiss-final-concert-weird-things\/\">shown during the band&#8217;s last concert<\/a> was just a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/kiss-albums-ranked\/\">Kiss Albums Ranked Worst to Best<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coup said he and his team are currently &#8220;in the middle of developing the real avatars, which will take about two years.&#8221; He showed off updated concept art, daring fans to tell the difference between a photograph and an identical avatar version of Paul Stanley and then displaying some mind-blowing stage set designs. (Attendees were asked not to share photos of these images.)<\/p>\n<p>The Kiss Movie is Still Searching for its Lead Actors<\/p>\n<p>Director McG and producer Mark Canton, who are working on the band&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/kiss-biopic\/\">long-gestating big screen biopic<\/a>, were also on hand to talk about their progress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kiss is the most exciting band in rock and roll history. We owe the [Kiss] army the most exciting movie in history,&#8221; McG declared. &#8220;More than any other band in the history of rock and roll, there is rock and roll <em>before<\/em> Kiss and then there is rock and roll <em>after<\/em> Kiss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McG said they were still in the middle of casting, trying to find actors that can recreate the intensity of the band&#8217;s onstage performances. No further information about production schedule or release date was made available.<\/p>\n<h3>After Two Years of Work, Kiss&#8217; New Documentary is Nearly Ready<\/h3>\n<p>A documentary about the band&#8217;s five-year-long End of the Road world tour seems likely to be the first of the major projects to see the light of day. After a trailer was debuted at the panel, McGhee said the goal was to take the larger than life &#8220;WWE element&#8221; out of the band in favor of a fly on the wall approach that showed the band&#8217;s real personalities.<\/p>\n<p>McGhee noted that after five years of filming, they&#8217;ve spent the last two years editing &#8220;thousands of hours&#8221; of footage. &#8220;You&#8217;ll see a whole different side of Kiss,&#8221; he promised while describing the documentary, biopic and avatar show as a three-part plan to help the band continue to reach new generations of fans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">Kiss Live Albums Ranked Worst to Best<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<p>You wanted the best, you get the best.. and the rest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Matthew Wilkening<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=160&#038;gver=9&#038;bid=295&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DmxuuNIMSzp6MHphJEoAGlLFQ3qmwQguzkGZl&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/the-future-of-kiss-panel-report-can-you-make-us-immortal\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manager Doc McGhee offered Kiss\u00a0fans in Las Vegas a sneak peak at three big projects the band is planning to release in the near&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}