In May 2020, the band’s seventh studio album, Shadow Work , was announced. It released the following July, though it failed to chart in the US Billboard 200 chart, selling only 600 copies in its first week, an 87% drop from their prior studio album, DNA , in 2016. That…
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On May 1, 2020, the band released an EP titled Atonement II: B-Sides for Charity , containing six songs that were recorded during the Atonement sessions, but did not make the album. The EP was released on Bandcamp and sold as a “pay what you want” price, with all proceeds…
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On May 1, 2020, the band announced that they had rescheduled the remaining dates of the reunion tour to 2021.
Fuktronic , an electronic music collaboration with Mindless Self Indulgence ‘s Jimmy Urine was released in May 2020, after the duo released a sample on SoundCloud . Fuktronic is described as “the team of Serj Tankian and Jimmy Urine from Mindless Self Indulgence, making a soundtrack for the ultimate British…
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In May 2020, the band released a new single, ” The Shift “. On July 10, they released another song, “The Unknown”, and announced their newest album, Violent Allies , which was released on September 18.
On April 29, Manson and Jennings confirmed they had finished work on the band’s eleventh studio album, with both calling it a “masterpiece”.
On April 23, the band confirmed that they had begun work on a fourteenth studio album, utilizing the period of lockdown due to COVID-19 to begin writing. The album was said to be fully written as of April 2021.
LIFERS was released on April 10, 2020.
On April 8, 2020, the band released a music video for the song ” Unforgettable “. The band invited 400 aspiring musicians from middle school students across New England to take part in the video. The video, directed by Noah Berlow, again sent the song to the top of the…
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On 5 April 2020 a glitch in Triple J Darwin’s broadcast system saw Thornhill make headlines when track “Lily and the Moon” was accidentally played on public radio on-loop for nearly four hours from approximately 4:30 to 8:30 am.