On 25 September 2025, Accept announced that they had parted ways with guitarist Uwe Lulis , and instead of replacing him, would revert to “the traditional two guitar player lineup”.
Zilqy, her new band with former Lovebites bassist Miho, was unveiled two days later.
On September 14, 2025, Toki announced her departure from Aldious.
On September 10, 2025, Twisted Sister announced their reunion and would embark on a world tour, Twisted Forever, Forever Twisted, in 2026 celebrating the band’s 50th anniversary, but without bassist Mark Mendoza due to “irreconcilable differences”. It will feature Russell Pzütto on bass and Joe Franco on drums.
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 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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The tour has been widely marketed as a farewell tour. However, in his monologue in Haapsalu , Estonia , on 30 August 2025, the singer Bernie Shaw said: “I would like to correct a possible misconception about this tour we are on. This is by no means our final tour.…
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The band’s seventeenth studio album, Giants & Monsters , was released on 29 August 2025.
The album was released on August 22 and features touring bassist Sablan.