The group Kiss completed its farewell tour at the end of 2023 but a new page is opening for the American group whose rights have just been acquired by a Swedish company. They intend to make their image and their music flourish for eternity.
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The sale of major music catalogs continues. Pophouse Entertainment, a Swedish company specializing in brands and entertainment, announced this week that it had acquired the catalog of the legendary American glam-metal group Kiss. The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed.
The Swedish group Pophouse, co-founded by one of the members of Abba Björn Ulvaeus, will hold “the music catalog, brand and image – including famous face paint designs – and trademarks of the iconic American rock bandn”, according to its press release.
The glam metal band Kiss, of which only two original members remained in recent years – singer and bassist Gene Simmons, 74, and singer and guitarist Paul Stanley, 72 – completed a long farewell tour around the world at the end of 2023 called End of the Roadincluding Hellfest in June 2023.
Known in particular for his megatube I was made for lovin’ youits pyrotechnic effects and its stylized makeup, the New York group has sold more than 100 million records worldwide in its 50-year career, according to Pophouse.
A biopic and a hologram show on the horizon
A film project on the history of the group and a show with digital avatars of the musicians, with exuberant theatricality, are in preparation, indicated Johan Lagerlof, head of investments at Pophouse. The company had already announced in December the creation of digital avatars for Kiss’s stage performances, which marked, according to the Swedish company, “the end of one’s physical existence” and assured “swe immortalize”.
Pophouse also participated in the design of the show ABBA Travel in London, in which digital avatars, or ABBAtars, performed the hits of the iconic Swedish pop group. In February, Pophouse announced that it had acquired the rights to the music catalog of American singer Cyndi Lauper.