KISS to Perform Again in 2026 at KISS Kruise Land Locked in Vegas. We Review All the Details

Three Sides of the Coin – A KISS Podcast and Radio Show

Michael Brandvold, Tommy Sommers, Mark Cicchini and Lisa Martini

Music, Music Interviews, Music History, Music Commentary

4.3 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Episode 666. This week we discuss all the details, prices and changes for the 2026 KISS KRUISE in Las Vegas.

TWO UNMASKED SHOWS – (GENE • PAUL • TOMMY • ERIC) ACE FREHLEY ALL STAR TRIBUTE – (WITH SIT-INS FROM MEMBERS OF KISS & GUESTS)

NIGHT RANGER • BRUCE KULICK • SLAUGHTER • FASTER PUSSYCAT • KEEL • KUARANTINE • ROCK AND ROLL OVER KISS TRIBUTE BAND • RADIO HOST TOMMY LONDON • SCHOOL OF ROCK

OFFICIAL PRE-PARTY NOV 12 ACE FREHLEY BAND • ENUFF Z’NUFF • BEASTO BLANCO • ROCKSTARS OF TOMORROW

KISSPERIENCES ACTIVITIES WITH GENE, PAUL, TOMMY, ERIC KISS Q&A ARTIST PANELS/Q&AS KISS LOOK A LIKE CONTEST ASK DOC KISS KARAOKE ARTIST MEET & GREETS MERCH STORE WENTWORTH GALLERY LATE NIGHT DJs PANELS/Q&AS BARRY LEVINE (KISS PHOTOGRAPHER) FUTURE OF KISS PANEL

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Since launching in 2012 Three Sides of the Coin has been viewed or listened to over 6,000,000 times. Three Sides of the Coin has been joined by special guests including former KISS lead guitarist Bruce Kulick, Eddie Trunk, AEW Superstar and lead singer of Fozzy Chris Jericho, Angel lead guitarist Punky Meadows, Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook, Vinnie Vincent Invasion and Slaughter lead singer Mark Slaughter, Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, comedian Craig Gass, KISS’ former business manager Chris Lendt, the Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersack, Frank Munoz associate producer for Ace Frehley’s Anomaly album, award winning songwriter Adam Mitchell, Ed Kanon (Peter Criss’ drum tech), Kevin Valentine (drummer on KISS’ Psycho Circus album). Three Sides of the Coin was picked (October 2013) as a ‘What’s Hot’ podcast by Apple’s iTunes.

In the early ’90s, Michael Brandvold launched the fifth ever website on the Internet devoted to KISS, KISS Otaku. He built, launched and maintained Kissonline.com (KISS’ official web presence). He now owns Michael Brandvold Marketing, providing marketing services and digital strategy to musicians. Tommy Sommers spent 15 years on the record show circuit collecting, trading and selling memorabilia / Kiss merchandise. He is now a successful residential Real Estate agent in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. Tommy has also produced a KISS song For The Oddfathers and is the owner of Rock Steady Digital Photography. Mark Cicchini, is a world renown KISS collector. KISS have used parts of Mark’s vast KISS collection for audio, video & print materials including their book NOTHIN TO LOSE, CD re release of the LOVE GUN album & the VH1 Ultimate Album KISS ALIVE! special as well as many other KISS projects. His wife also makes a mean meatloaf!!!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Three Sides the Coin. This week, it's a hit and run show. We haven't done one of these in a few years. This is you ask us the questions. And we go through quite a few questions here. A lot of questions, some good questions, some good discussions.
0:23.9	So stick it out and we'll see you at the end. Three Sides of the Coin has moved to a brand new
0:28.7	YouTube channel. Please hit the subscribe button below so you don't miss future episodes on YouTube.
0:35.4	Welcome to Three Sides of the Coin, a podcast about rock, heavy metal and kiss.
0:41.2	Founded in 2012 and over 10 million plays, where four longtime kiss and music fans discuss
0:46.3	everything kiss.
0:47.8	So you love the show, visit www.3Sidesofthecoigne.com, subscribe on YouTube, follow and rate us on Spotify, subscribe and
0:56.4	leave a review on iTunes. We appreciate your support. Surf into the Ultimate Kiss store,
1:01.9	the largest in the galaxy. Explore an incredible collection of merchandise and collectibles
1:06.9	from every era of the greatest band of all time, Kiss. We have something for Kiss fans of all ages.
1:12.6	Visit www.kiss Army Warehouse.com.
1:16.6	Three sides of the coin.
1:18.6	It's not gonna suck again this week.
1:21.6	Hit the video button.
1:23.6	You wanna watch because Lisa's here,
1:25.6	and we don't know what could happen but she is outside
1:31.3	in hummingbird territory yep and it's the hummingbird migration area thing or whatever it is like so
1:36.4	I don't know what's going to happen so we know that after years with Lisa you put her in a different
1:41.8	environment frankly you put her in any environment environment. Frankly, you put her in any environment. She could just fall off the chair for any reason. Yeah, there's all kind of activity today, I will say. I think I have baby chipmunks. I have a whole... Wouldn't it be great if a chipmunk jumped up into her hair? Well, that'd be awesome. There's a squirrel building a nest over there, so they're running around. Yeah, that's a lot of activity in the backyard today. We'll see. We think Mark's in a food coma right now because it wasn't an all-you-can-eat-crab-like thing. He was in a crab place last night, and this morning I messaged everybody, I'm like, so are we recording today?
2:19.4	And Mark's like, well, I don't know.
2:21.5	I might be eating crab, sunning on the beach or swimming with dolphins,
2:25.6	or I might be swimming with dolphins, eating crabs, Sunday on the beach.
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