More acts confirmed for 2026 'KISS Kruise: Landlocked In Vegas'
NIGHT RANGER, BRUCE KULICK, SLAUGHTER, FASTER PUSSYCAT and KEEL will perform
24-04-2026
NIGHT RANGER, former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick, SLAUGHTER, FASTER PUSSYCAT, KEEL and Chris Jericho‘s 1980s KISS cover band KUARANTINE will join KISS during the 2026 edition of the “KISS Kruise: Landlocked In Vegas”, set to take place November 13-15 at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada.
An official pre-party will be held on November 12 and will include the ACE FREHLEY BAND, ENUFF Z’NUFF and BEASTO BLANCO, the band fronted by longtime ALICE COOPER bassist Chuck Garric.
The four members of KISS‘s current lineup — Gene Simmons (bass, vocals),Paul Stanley (guitar, vocals),Tommy Thayer (guitar) and Eric Singer (drums) — will perform two “unmasked” shows at the event, just as they did at last year’s “KISS Kruise: Landlocked In Vegas”. The 2026 “KISS Kruise: Landlocked In Vegas” will also include a series of activities and question-and-answer sessions, as well as an all-star tribute to original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley — with “sit-ins” from members of KISS — who died last October.
More information about ticketing, including VIP packages, can be found on the event’s web site.
KISS KRUISE. Don’t miss it.! pic.twitter.com/bxqixlyjTy
— Gene Simmons (@genesimmons) April 22, 2026
The first details of the 2026 edition of the “KISS Kruise: Landlocked In Vegas” will be officially announced later this month.
The legendary rockers kicked off the 2025 edition of the “KISS Kruise: Landlocked In Vegas” with an outdoor unplugged performance on November 14, 2025 at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. At the beginning of the concert, Stanley asked fans in the audience to lift the electric candles which were handed out to everyone prior to the gig in honor of founding KISS guitarist Ace Frehley, who died in October 2025 at the age of 74. Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer also played an electric “unmasked” show the same weekend, marking the first time KISS had performed together since retiring from touring in December 2023.
Simmons told Rolling Stone in a November 2023 interview that the second Madison Square Garden “End Of The Road” concert would mark “the final KISS-in-makeup appearance.”
Ace co-founded KISS with Paul, Gene and Peter Criss in New York City in 1973. Frehley appeared on KISS‘s first nine albums, and returned for the band’s 1998 reunion album, “Psycho Circus”, only to leave again. He was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with the rest of KISS‘s original lineup in 2014.
Frehley first left KISS in 1982. He rejoined in 1996 and parted ways with the band once again in 2002 after the conclusion of KISS‘s first “farewell tour.” Since his departure, guitarist Tommy Thayer had assumed the role of the Spaceman.
