In June 2026, The Obsessed announced that they are working on a new album, titled Live Fast – Love Hard – Die Free , which is tentatively due for release in 2027.
The band’s eleventh studio album, Good God / Baad Man , was released on April 3, 2026. The first single was “Gimme Some Moore”, followed by “You or Me”, “Asleep on the Killing Floor” and “Baad Man” . Nearly a month prior to its release, Nick Shabatura replaced Stanton Moore…
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On March 17, 2026, the band announced that After the Astronaut would finally be released on June 26 by Sunset Boulevard Records. The album’s announcement came with the release of the single “Jet Fighter”.
In December 2025, the song “Human Cannonball” from Locust Abortion Technician was featured in Chapter 7 of the fifth season of Stranger Things .
On September 23, 2025, Haynes, Leary, Coffey and Pinkus reunited at Los Angeles’ Egyptian Theatre to perform a brief set as Butthole Surfers for the first time since October 2017, following the West Coast premiere of the documentary film The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt .
On September 22, 2025, the band returned with a special rendition of “Fire and Water” by Free . COC’s version came spontaneously in the studio during some downtime while recording their forthcoming new full-length, and serves as the first of the Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1 , a special…
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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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On August 16, 2025 the band announced that they had finished recording a double album and were planning to release it in early 2026, with some of the guitar tracks being recorded at Barry Gibb ‘s private studio in Miami and Stanton Moore on drums.
In July 2025, the band announced the departure of drummer Brian Constantino and the addition of new drummer Bob Pantella of Monster Magnet and The Atomic Bitchwax .
The tour was set to kick off at Mohegan Sun Arena in Montville, Connecticut on May 8, when Kinney suffered a medical emergency during soundcheck that evening. The band described the event as “non-life threatening” but were forced to cancel the show;