In 2025, the band played their first show in six years, when they played the Genesee Theatre, Waukegan, Illinois on February 15, followed by shows throughout the year.
On May 24, 2025, Blue Öyster Cult performed under their original name Soft White Underbelly at Islington Assembly Hall in London.
and ending in New Zealand in January 2025.
On April 14, 2025, the band announced their new single “Darkness Always Wins”, which was released on April 22. Shortly after, on April 29, they announced that their new album to be titled Everest , and they announced a tour in North America and Europe. They supported Iron Maiden on…
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On December 5, 2025, the band announced their new album, Scrap Metal , would be released on January 23, 2026.
In 2025, the band revealed that the new album would be called Last Night on Earth .
The band’s sixth album, Everest , was released on August 8, 2025.
Icon is still active as of 2025. Their current lineup is the same as the one that recorded their first two albums, Icon and Night of the Crime —vocalist Stephen Clifford, guitarists Dan Wexler and John Aquilino, bassist Tracy Wallach and drummer Pat Dixon—and the band is currently working on…
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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.