20 Active Bands That Haven’t Released an Album in 5 Years

Do you ever sit again and notice it has been a very long time because you heard new music from a specific artist?

We’ve clearly been dwelling in a very distinctive time over the previous few years, with a worldwide pandemic halting regular life for months on finish. Quite a lot of artists used the downtime to get to work, whereas others used it to chill out and spend time with their households — one thing they do not get to do typically as soon as it is time to hit the studio or the highway once more.

But 2018 was 5 complete years in the past, so for bands that have not launched an album since then, it looks like a fairly very long time. Plus, with the pandemic proper in the center of that window, it nearly looks like a lifetime in the past.

Some bands tour and launch one-off songs right here and there with out releasing new albums. Other artists have a number of tasks they’re part of, so that they need to steadiness out their time evenly amongst them. The remainder of them possibly simply do not plan on releasing new music anymore.

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We compiled a listing of lively bands — which means they’re at present nonetheless collectively and play reveals — that have not launched an album in 5 years or extra. So, bands who’re about to embark on a last tour, reminiscent of KISS and Aerosmith, do not depend, and neither do Pantera, since their present tour plans are thought-about a “celebration” reasonably than a reunion.  Likewise, acts who’ve introduced the title and launch date for his or her subsequent file do not depend, since we all know for positive meaning new materials is underway.

Surprisingly, Tool do not qualify this time round both.

Scroll via the gallery beneath to see the lively rock and steel bands that have not launched an album in 5 years or extra.