KISS kicked off its month-long "KissWorld" tour of Europe and the United Kingdom Monday night (May 1) at the Olympijskiy Stadium in Moscow, Russia. The band's setlist was as follows: 01. Deuce 02. Shout It Out Loud 03. Lick It Up 04. I Love It Loud 05. Love Gun 06. Firehouse 07. Shock Me 08. Flaming Youth 09. War Machine 10. Crazy Crazy Nights 11. Cold Gin 12. Say Yeah 13. Let Me Go, Rock ‘N' Roll 14. Psycho Circus 15. Black Diamond Encore: 16. Detroit Rock City 17. I Was Made For Lovin' You 18. Rock And Roll All Nite Fan-filmed video footage of the entire concert can be seen below. In a 2016 interview with The Morning Call, KISS frontman Paul Stanley spoke about how KISS chooses its setlist: "The cream has always risen to the top, and the people expect certain songs and they'll get those, undoubtedly. And we'll try to mix in some lesser classics. But the idea of playing obscure songs is only appealing to a die-hard fan who knows our albums inside out. To go up on stage and play unknown sons for a handful of people as opposed to playing the songs that everybody wants to hear is really not in our best interests or the audiences." He continued: "We want to do the best show and we want to blow away people who get to see us once every two years, five years, ten years. Those are the people who we put the show together for. If somebody come night after night or sees ten or fifteen shows on a tour, well, they may be asking why we don't change the show up much. But the fact is we don't change it up that much because once it's great, you don't mess with it. If you mess with it, you're doing it more for yourself than for the audience. We want to do the best show possible." Stanley also talked about the possibility of KISS recording the follow-up to 2012's "Monster" disc. He said: "I haven’t really been interested in doing an album, honestly, because each album we did, there was a justification for before we started it. And I don't mean by fans, but within the band. And at least with me, in particular. And I'm feeling more now that I could see it happening in the not-too-distant future. It's just I don't want to do 'Sonic Boom Part II'. I don't want to do 'Monster Part II'. If we can do something different and yet retain who we are, that's much more interesting at this point to me. I don't want to concept albums; I don't want to try to over-think it. And at the same time, I don't want to do the same thing again. If everybody's on the same page, then I sure we'll go in the studio sooner than later."
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