In an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock , Paul Stanley confirmed that the end of KISS is near. The band began its farewell tour, End Of The Road , in 2019 and had plans to finish it in 2021, but gained extra time to say goodbye due to the postponements that came with the pandemic.
Now, with the resumption of live shows, Paul Stanley assures that, unlike KISS's first farewell tour in the 2000s, this one really is the end. "I strongly believe we'll be finished by the beginning of 2023, and it seems natural to me that the last show will be in New York," said Stanley. "That's where the band started, and it was the setting for our formation and songwriting, and we played a lot of parties and a lot of clubs starting with an audience of probably 10 people. It feels like we have to complete the cycle."
Regarding the fact that KISS had already done a farewell tour from the past and is repeating the process, Paul Stanley confirmed that this time it's truly definitive. “It’s a different moment than what we considered in the past,” he stated. “The truth is, what we do demands a lot from us physically. We recently played in Austin, an outdoor show with 100% humidity. We ran around for over two hours, not just with guitars, but more than 10 kilos of equipment. There comes a point where it becomes more challenging than we’d like. I just want to do this while I’m smiling.”
“We don’t plan on changing our minds. It has nothing to do with our personalities in the band or fights or different opinions or musicality. It’s purely practical. You can play at fighting the clock, but in the end, the clock wins,” he concludes.
