{"id":114489,"date":"2024-10-23T18:25:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T23:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=114489"},"modified":"2024-10-23T18:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T23:33:30","slug":"kiss-virtual-hologram-concerts-to-change-the-course-of-rock-n-roll-music-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=114489","title":{"rendered":"KISS &#8211; Virtual &#8220;Hologram&#8221; Concerts to Change the Course of Rock N Roll Music Forever!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Looks Like Hologram Concerts Are Here to Stay \u2014 ABBA Voyage Revenue Hit $137 Million in 2023, Earnings Report Reveals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">KISS co-leader Gene Simmons went on the record to say &#8220;Rock is dead.&#8221; It looks like from a physical standpoint; the Demon is not telling a lie. In fact, the massive financial numbers for virtual concerts events are the main reason these &#8220;fake virtual&#8221; musical events are going to become the norm. Eighties glam metal nostalgia act M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE has already hinted they will begin using concert avatars too&#8230; <em>after being exposed for using AI to generate their new studio music.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">During the encore of the final KISS show on 12\/2\/2023 at New York City\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2023\/12\/03\/kiss-final-concert-new-era-band-avatars\/71753863007\/\"> famed Madison Square Garden<\/a>, bandmates Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer left the stage to reveal digital avatars of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/attachment-YouTube.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/attachment-YouTube.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114500\" style=\"width:559px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/attachment-YouTube.webp 980w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/attachment-YouTube-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/attachment-YouTube-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/attachment-YouTube-600x400.webp 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Aniara Limited<\/strong>, the UK-based company behind London\u2019s ABBA Voyage, just recently filed its complete 2023 financials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Now, however, we know the precise details of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2024\/10\/01\/abba-voyage-revenue-2023\/#:~:text=Aniara%20Limited%2C%20the%20UK-based%20company%20behind%20London%E2%80%99s%20ABBA,Voyage%2C%20just%20recently%20filed%20its%20complete%202023%20financials.\">commercial results<\/a>. As laid out in Aniara\u2019s full-year report, ABBA Voyage\u2019s 2023 performances numbered 374 and attracted 1,097,597 attendees for an occupancy rate of 97.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Your Official First Look at ABBA Voyage. Only at the ABBA Arena, London, UK | ABBA Voyage\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iEikjzZO2N8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Adjacent to those figures, Aniara\u2019s total revenue hit $137.58 million (\u00a3103.67 million) in 2023, with profit coming in at $10.68 million (\u00a38.06 million), according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/abba-voyage-2023-financials-UK-companies-house.pdf\">the document<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">KISS will use the same company Aniara Limited to produce their avatar concerts coming in 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The band&#8217;s co-leader Paul Stanley is also keeping mum on a premiere date for the first official KISS avatars show. When asked about reports that claim the show will debut in Las Vegas in 2027, Stanley says: \u201cWhat I can tell you is that the technology that\u2019s being used, which is a furthering of the technology used on the ABBA show, has to be installed and basically a building has to be built around it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cSo this isn\u2019t something where you\u2019re in Kansas City today, and tomorrow you fly with your projector to do it. It demands an arena, so to speak that\u2019s really solely used for a show like this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-lightbox\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/world\/kiss-achieves-music-immortality-with-new-hologram-bandmates-for-live-gigs-1559888.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/assets.newatlas.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114505\" style=\"width:645px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/assets.newatlas.avif 840w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/assets.newatlas-300x200.avif 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/assets.newatlas-768x512.avif 768w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/assets.newatlas-600x400.avif 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">During the band\u2019s farewell performance last December, they&nbsp;unveiled a \u201cnew era\u201d of KISS as a virtual band. \u201c[It was] an early version of what is to come and is still being worked on,\u201d Stanley tells&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em>&nbsp;about the live reveal. \u201cIt bears little resemblance to what was there. What we were showing was just the inception of the idea that we can continue on outside of flesh and blood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CMS | AI Is Taking Over The Music World FAST!!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sd1BCpfEgo4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks Like Hologram Concerts Are Here to Stay \u2014 ABBA Voyage Revenue Hit $137 Million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114489"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114515,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114489\/revisions\/114515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}