KISS will revisit the closing years of their farewell tour in “End of the Road”, a documentary scheduled for an online premiere on November 19, 2026. Its first trailer combines concert spectacle with backstage difficulties and personal reflections, including Gene Simmons’s illness during a Brazilian show. The film follows the journey towards the tour’s final performance at Madison Square Garden in December 2023.
KISS turn back to the final stretch of their touring history in “End of the Road”, directed by DJ Viola. The trailer released on October 27, 2026, places familiar concert images beside moments audiences did not see from their seats. It follows the band towards December 2, 2023, when the farewell tour ended at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
The stage footage preserves the group’s theatrical scale: lighting, elaborate costumes and effects surround the performances. Interviews interrupt those images with more personal accounts, suggesting a film concerned with the work and uncertainty behind the production as well as its visual impact. The musicians appear as people moving through a demanding tour, alongside their recognisable onstage characters.
Paul Stanley discusses his attachment to performing, describing rock and roll as deeply bound up with who he is. His wish to return to the stage gives the concert scenes a different context. The decision to finish a touring career did not mean that the attraction of playing live had simply vanished for everyone involved in the farewell.
KISS’s “End of the Road” tour began in January 2019 and ultimately stretched across almost five years. The pandemic interrupted its original plans, bringing postponements and changes before performances resumed. That extended timetable forms part of the documentary’s background, with travel, preparation and the demands of restarting a large production sitting alongside the experience of the shows themselves.
Rather than concentrating only on the final New York night, the film draws on different stops along that route. KISS were taking a substantial international production through a period of disruption, and the trailer suggests an interest in the routines required to keep it moving. Behind each public performance were decisions and practical difficulties that could not be reduced to the final set list.
One sequence returns to Gene Simmons becoming unwell during a concert in Brazil in 2023. The incident was linked to dehydration, and he continued part of the appearance seated. Its inclusion revisits an event from that tour, rather than reporting a new health problem. The change in his stage posture briefly interrupted the forceful physical presentation associated with his costume and character.
That contrast is particularly visible because Simmons’s appearance is normally designed around an imposing silhouette and theatrical movement. The recorded interruption exposes a different aspect of touring, in which the performer’s condition affects what can happen onstage. The documentary puts that practical vulnerability within the same account as the effects and spectacle that audiences normally associate with the band.
A more reflective moment comes when Simmons speaks to the camera while still wearing his makeup and costume. He cannot say precisely when the end of the tour will affect him emotionally. The uncertainty matters because the farewell had been planned in advance: knowing the date did not necessarily make it possible to anticipate the feelings that would arrive with it.
He uses a family comparison to explain the gap between knowing something will happen and experiencing it. Awareness that parents will eventually die does not remove the difficulty of that loss when it comes. His analogy concerns the emotional preparation for an ending, giving the trailer a quieter register than the concert images surrounding his remarks. The trailer closes with Simmons’s reflections, leaving the personal response to the goodbye beside the final concert images.
KISS completed the tour in the city where the band formed in the early 1970s. Madison Square Garden hosted the last two shows on December 1 and 2, 2023, bringing the international itinerary back to New York. The final touring lineup comprised Stanley, Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer. The closing performance was also streamed for fans who could not attend.
Production of the KISS documentary had been discussed before its premiere date was announced, reflecting the volume of material gathered during the farewell. Its interviews and backstage access give it a different purpose from another presentation of a complete concert. The subject is the process of reaching the final shows, including the time between performances and the musicians’ reactions to the approaching finish.
The November 19 online premiere is advertised through the film’s official platform, with access starting at $14.99 and a seven-day viewing period afterwards. Other platforms are expected later, but specific services and dates have not been established in the initial announcement. No separate Greek streaming arrangement or free release has been confirmed as part of this first presentation.
The end of the farewell tour did not rule out every later KISS appearance. The band returned for the separate “Kiss Kruise: Land-Locked in Vegas” event in 2025, with another edition announced for November 13–15, 2026, at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Those events, along with distinct plans involving avatars and a film about the band’s history, should not be confused with this documentary’s account of the road to December 2023.
