Power Metal World Tour

The Power Metal World Tour (also known as the Next Generation Tour) was a concert tour by American heavy metal band KISS which began on June 28, 2024 in Detroit, United States and concluded on July 5, 2025 in London, England. It was the first tour without any original members of KISS.

Background
While KISS continued to exist publicly as Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer, arrangements for a next generation of their band were in the works. These efforts culminated with a public event as dramatic as any the band had staged since Tupac Shakur introduced the original KISS lineup during the 38th Annual Grammy Awards on February 28, 1996. With those statements, the next generation lineup for KISS made a special appearance in the finale of a televised production of the musical Pippin in full makeup and Dynasty-era and Unmasked-Era costumes while performing "Bohemian Rhapsody" (also performed by the titular character along with other four characters, including Catherine, Theo, and two clowns). This resulted in YouTube videos about their special appearance in this production of Pippin going viral, gaining positive reviews and feedbacks all over the world.

On April 16, 2024, the next generation band members were brought to the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where they announced their plans for a full-fledged "next generation" tour, with the help of the band's old manager Doc McGhee. The band's guest appearance in Jimmy Kimmel Live! was broadcasted to all 50 states in America. On April 20, nearly 40,000 tickets for the tour's first show sold out in 47 minutes. While the band introduces new stunts for their keyboardist, they would still use vintage stunts from older bandmembers of KISS, including Simmons' blood-spitting and fire-breathing, Frehley's smoking and shooting guitar, pyrotechnics and platform risers.

Meanwhile, the founding members and other older members of KISS, including Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, Vinnie Vincent, Bruce Kulick, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer, provide Gibson Guitars, Roland Keyboards, and Pearl Drums as the tour's sponsors which their new generation would use as their regular equipment. Later, all eight surviving older members of KISS help their new generation work out to physical shape for the tour, showing them the choreography for the concerts which including their vintage stunts.

Following rehearsals, KISS began their reunion tour on June 15, 2024, with a warmup gig in Irvine, California for the KROQ Weenie Roast. It was considered by the band to be a live rehearsal for many aspects of the stage show before the tour was set to begin at a sold-out Comerica Park in Detroit on June 28, 2024, playing to approximately 40,000 people. The tour lasted for 192 shows over the course of one year and earned $43.6 million, making Kiss the top-drawing concert act of 1996.

Tour Dates
† New Year's Eve Concert †† The day before KISS' latest album recording

Personnel

 * ??? (aka Starchild) - Lead vocals
 * ??? (aka Demon) - Bass, backing vocals & occasional lead vocals
 * ??? (aka Beast King) - Drums, backing vocals & occasional lead vocals
 * ??? (aka Celestial) - Guitar, backing vocals & occasional lead vocals
 * ??? (aka Enchantress) - Keyboard, backing vocals & occasional lead vocals