Break out the face paint,Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Eric Singer and Tommy Thayer are coming to town.

The legendary KISS are set to return to Australian shores in October during their 40th Anniversary world tour, in what promises to be a wall-to-wall hit fest from their extensive back catalogue, including tracks such as ‘Rock’n’Roll All Nite’, ‘I Was Made For Loving You’, ‘Detroit Rock City’, ‘Love Gun’and ‘Shout It Out Loud’.

The tour will also see the Australian premiere of ‘The Spider’, a stage productionmoved by 38 computer controlled winches, featuring 220 automated lights, weighing in at 43,000 kgs, incorporating 900 pieces of pyrotechnics and powered by 400,000 watts of sound.

It goes down on Saturday October 10 at AllPhones Arena.Tickets go on sale on Thursday March 26 viaTicketek.

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