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KISS has canceled its planned winter residency at the Las Vegas' Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood more than two months after putting tickets on sale.
Representatives for the Zappos Theater told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that ticket providers will contact their customers with refund information.
The residency included 12 planned concerts December 29, 31; January 1, 19, 21, 22, 26, 28 and 29; February 2, 4 and 5.
Kiss recently embarked on its 10th annual Kiss Kruise.
Gene Simmons said in August that a Vegas residency represented the best of both worlds for Kiss — the band would get to put on a show almost nightly while also saving it some of the "wear and tear of traveling."
The reason for the cancellation remains unclear. It comes just days after anonymous members of the band's road crew attributed guitar tech Francis Stueber's recent COVID-19 death on lax enforcement of pandemic safety measures on the 'End of the Road' tour.
Kiss roadies told Rolling Stone that more than a dozen members of Kiss's 70-person road crew have gotten sick with COVID since the tour re-launched in late-August. While Kiss required all crew members to be fully-vaccinated from COVID to go back to work, the anonymous crew members said some of their colleagues faked vaccination documents to get back on tour and that management didn't test regularly for COVID.
Representatives for Kiss responded, saying the 'End of the Road' tour's COVID protocols "most often exceeded, federal, state, and local guidelines. But ultimately this is still a global pandemic and there is simply no foolproof way to tour without some element of risk." They added that it is "impossible to police the crew" during every minute of work, let alone during time off.