On September 18, the band issued the album’s title track as its third single, coinciding with the start of their North American fall tour.
The band’s first song in four years was initially teased in a staged partial leak on Instagram, and released on September 12, 2025, entitled ” Making Love to Morgan Wallen “, as part of the soundtrack for the video game Battlefield 6 .
On September 5, 2025, a single from the second album was released, with a re-recorded version of ” The End ” featuring Babymetal , along with 2 other tracks: ” Hell To Pay ” and ” M.I.N.E (End This Way) “.
In September 2025, Keenan said the band’s plans for 2026 would be “Writing, I guess”, while Jones mentioned having “lots of riffs” and plans to do a “dive deep soon” into the writing process for album six.
In a September 2025 interview with Billboard , Cameron confirmed that he, Thayil and Shepherd were “definitely over halfway done with” the remaining eight songs the band worked on before Cornell’s death.
In a September 2025 interview with Cleveland.com , Cantrell stated that Alice in Chains “had a tour planned for, like, right now that kind of fell through”, adding, “So we had some bad luck; we planned on doing much more this year, but it just didn’t work out.” He also…
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In September 2025, the band performed at an NFL game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Carolina Panthers .
On August 28, 2025, Shaun Foist announced he was stepping down from touring with Breaking Benjamin due to health issues, and that James Cassells of Asking Alexandria was hired as his substitute.
The album was released on August 22 and features touring bassist Sablan.
On August 16, 2025 the band announced that they had finished recording a double album and were planning to release it in early 2026, with some of the guitar tracks being recorded at Barry Gibb ‘s private studio in Miami and Stanton Moore on drums.