The album was announced in April 2025 and revealed to be titled Kiss the Machine and released the album’s lead single “Beautimous” digitally the same day on April 18, 2025 ahead of the full album’s release on May 2, 2025.
To support the release, Puddle of Mudd embarked on a summer 2025 tour that included music festival appearances and co-headlining dates with Everclear and Eve 6 . Promotion efforts included a more grassroots approach, such as a viral video featuring Scantlin previewing the lead single at a Jiffy Lube for…
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The albums second single, ” Firefly ” was released on October 10, 2025, with an official lyric video. Wes Scantlin dedicated the song and music video to Layne Staley , Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington .
On October 17, 2025, the band released a previously unannounced stand-alone new single titled “Monsters” digitally on all major music streaming platforms and digital marketplaces. The single was not featured on the band’s most recent album Kiss the Machine , and was not promoted prior to its surprise release.
With a new roster of musicians, he entered the studio and began developing new material. The album’s production took place throughout 2024 and into early 2025, with Scantlin taking an active role in both songwriting and co-producing the record.
After the lack of commercial and critical success of Ubiquitous in 2023, the band pulled out of promoting the album and cancelled all tours dates scheduled to promote it. In early 2024, Puddle of Mudd underwent a major lineup overhaul after Scantlin fired the band’s entire instrumental ensemble. The decision…
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In 2022, Scantlin stated an album was in the works, and was ‘basically pretty much done’. The band’s sixth album titled Ubiquitous was released on September 8, 2023.
In November 2019, the band performed an acoustic session for SiriusXM ‘s Octane channel. The session went largely unnoticed until April 2020, when the Instagram music meme account @catatonicyouths posted edited clips of the band’s cover of Nirvana ‘s ” About a Girl “. The cover was also given a…
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In July 2019, a new single, “Uh Oh”, was released, with the full album Welcome to Galvania following in September.
The band started recording an album with Cameron Webb at Grandmaster Studios in 2015. The following year they took part in the Make America Rock Again super tour with other artists who had success throughout the 2000s including Trapt , Saving Abel , Alien Ant Farm , Crazy Town ,…
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