Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, KISS’ Paul Stanley discussed the group’s decision to continue as avatars. According to him, people have been getting “the wrong impression” about the virtual version of the band.

Stanley said the following:

“One thing that’s interesting is people, I think, perhaps even understandably, got the wrong impression initially of the avatars. Because at the Garden shows, we wanted to give people a glimpse of some of the things, or one of the things, that’s to come. But the avatars are really in their infancy. They’re far from where they’ll end up in terms of look and purpose. The purpose, ultimately, is not that we’re being replaced by flying avatars. It’s just another way of diversifying what KISS is.

Quite honestly, many times in the last 50 years, people have scratched their heads about what our plans were. And nine out of 10 times they’ve been successful, and other people have followed. So that’s nothing really new.

We’re in a fortunate position and a unique position of being a band that can do things that other bands can’t do. So to not explore and take advantage of many of them would be, I don’t know, ridiculous, and also, really, at this point, mystifying. We’ve worked this hard to create four icons, and a band that’s iconic in so many different ways, and to not diversify and maximize what we’ve created, we’d be crazy.”