Kiss winds up their tour in April and takes a break to prepare new material and work on other projects. Bruce films a guitar instructional video for Star Licks. It reaches platinum status. Kiss relocate to Los Angeles to begin work on their next album. It features a lighter sound with heavy keyboard emphasis.
Attendance is moderate.
Some full houses, some half full. The band winds down the North American portion of their tour. They then travel to Japan for the first time in 10 years. They take with them a rather scaled down stage show, lacking the major theatrics and light up logo that made them famous. It fails to chart.