On 5 February 2025, Osbourne announced that the original line-up of Black Sabbath would reform for one final charity show at Villa Park , Birmingham on 5 July.
In a February 2025 interview with NME , Wire and Bradfield stated they were considering making their sixteenth album European themed.
In February 2025, Malakian gave his thoughts about making a new System of a Down album.
In February 2025, the band announced appearances at Welcome to Rockville in Daytona Beach, Florida , Sonic Temple in Columbus, Ohio , and MMR*B*Q, a festival hosted by WMMR in Camden, New Jersey , alongside three other headlining performances with Chained Saint, a thrash metal band from Florida.
On 31 January 2025, preceding the release of Critical Thinking , an extended play was released, titled Brushstrokes of Reunion , comprising the songs “Brushstrokes of Reunion”, “People Ruin Paintings”, “Hiding in Plain Sight” and “Decline and Fall” from Critical Thinking .
On 29 January 2025, the band released two singles exclusively on Spotify; a cover of ” Wonderwall ” by Oasis , and a remix of their own song titled, ” Youtopia (Earthcore Remix)”.
The band performed at Tokyo Dome on January 18 and 19, with the concert named L’Arc-en-Ciel Live 2025 Hyde Birthday Celebration -Hyde 誕生祭- in honor of Hyde’s birthday.
and released physically on January 15, 2025.
In 2025, they released a re-recorded version of their debut album Ham Fisted ; ReFisted .
In late July of 2025, guitarist James Mead was hospitalized after suffering a stroke.