There was the 2012 Soundgarden album “King Animal.” It was their first since 1996’s “Down On The Upside.” Sadly, this comeback didn’t last long. R.I.P. Chris Cornell
One of the best come back albums after more than ten years between releases for me is Alice In Chains. It was 14 years between the final album with Layne (self titled) and come back album with Black Gives Away to Blue. Such a great album.
It's amazing how William Duvall sounds like Layne Staley in some ways yet has his own distinctive voice. I also understand Layne's parents gave their blessing for AIC to continue and are very supportive, which is super sweet.
I would put ABBA on the list with their 40 year wait between albums after The Visitors with Voyage. Black Sabbath had an 18 year wait between Forbidden and 13, but it was over 20 years between Ozzy Osbourne’s departure and then the proper comeback in 1999 and 14 years for a new album with Ozzy again after 35 years. And Busted, it was 13 years between albums from 2003 and 2016, after A Present For Everyone was released and it was Busted’s split in 2005, before returning in 2015 and Night Driver came out a year later and it’s amazing after so many years of waiting and speculating that it will never happen. Finally Take That split in 1996 after Robbie Williams left in 95 and Nobody Else was their last album for 11 years before coming back without Robbie for Beautiful World in 2006, and then after four years, Robbie Williams came back to the band for Progress in 2010, which I think is the best comeback for the band ever. And Gary Barlow also had 14 years between solo albums too from 1999 to 2013, and it was amazing too.
I celebrated the day Take That split up. Their shitty boyband crap was everywhere for a while in the 90's and it irritated the hell out of me....then Boyzone and East 17 came along and they wouldn't fuck off either. Followed closely by the least talented "band" in modern history, Spicegirls. There was so much awesome music in the 90's but people were conned into buying that boyband/girlband crap that all sounded the same. I'm sure Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams are decent people, but they ruined any respect I could ever have for them by being in Take That.
@@rbarnett3200 I respect your opinions on why you hate all the boy/girl band groups, but it doesn't mean that I don't dislike them, because I was bought up on their music before I started listening to other stuff, however, and I always followed Gary Barlow the most out of them all, however, Robbie's music has some really good stuff in his early career and he has lost it a bit now, but he reformed when his Christmas Album came out in my opinion, but I don't hate any of their music.
@@lewiscarty5517 I get that. I really don't judge people's music tastes. I was just saying they were the bane of my life when I was a teenager. I was listening to grunge, metal and hip-hop but if you ever wanted to see or hear that stuff you'd need MTV2. But the over saturation of boybands was just hateful at the time. I still have no idea why Spicegirls were ever popular though. Their breakthrough first single was garbage then, and it's garbage now. All their music was rubbish. I can appreciate the musicianship of Barlow and Williams though. They did actually write their own stuff, so fair play, it's just not to my taste.
Swans went through this as well. After releasing their landmark 1996 album Soundtracks for the Blind, they did a farewell tour the next year (as seen on the live CD "Swans Are Dead"), broke up, and then got back together in 2010, releasing their comeback album "My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky" later that same year. While not their most exciting or unique album, it certainly helped get the creative juices flowing again for what would be to come out later, leading to the epic trilogy of 2-hour albums that is The Seer, To Be Kind and The Glowing Man, which would garner arguably the most critical and commercial success the band would ever see.
Failure is a good example. They formed in the 90s and released 3 albums, with their last being Fantastic Planet it 1996. Then they broke up, but 19 years later, in 2015, they released The Heart is a Monster. And they have been active again ever since, dropping two more albums after that.
i saw people mentioning A Perfect Circle already (understandable, since Tool is here), so i'm gonna mention another post-hardcore pioneers a la At The Drive-In. Glassjaw took 15 years to release a new album, from Worship & Tribute(2002) to Material Control (2017). Though they released some EPs between those years (their best material might be the 2011 EPs Our Color Green and Coloring Book), so they weren't innactive per se.
I’d add Refused to this list. The band broke up in 1998 with three albums under their belt, but reformed in 2014 and released a fourth album the next year.
MBV was fantastic, I might even enjoy it slightly more than Loveless. She found now, only tommorow, Is this and yes, new you, and wonder 2 are some of my favorite songs they’ve ever put out.
The band Hum, a bit more obscure compared to the ones in your list, had gone over 22 years before releasing another album with Inlet (2020) and Downward is Heavenward (1998). It's really impressive to see how strong of a comeback Inlet was considering the quality of the album and the fact that it's been over 2 decades since they released an album before that.
i was just about to say ABBA. I think that's the longest gap between studio albums in history! But great list otherwise Jon. Hopefully we'll be adding the cure to this list when "Songs of A lost Worls" finally comes out this year !!
First of all - thank you for the video. Next, I'd like to mention a few other bands that would suit this list. Alice in Chains - 14 years between self-titled and Black Gives Way to Blue L7 - 20 years between Slap/Happy and Scatter the Rats Stray Cats - 27 years between Choo Choo Hot Fish and 40 The Stooges - 34 years between Raw Power and The Weirdness The Sonics - 48 (!!!) years between Introducing The Sonics and This Is The Sonics Death (proto-punk band from Detroit) - well, technically doesn't count since their debut was released in 2009, but it was recorded in 1975 and was unreleased for all those years. And their second full-length LP of new material (N.E.W.) came out in 2015, making in a 40 years gap. Even if you don't count it as suitable for this list, the story of this band is fascinating and I highly recommend you checking it out.
@@brianpinion5844 yes, they have reformed quite a while ago with a new singer. Look it up, that album is really good, in my opinion at least. There were 2 more albums after that.
HUM!! Please, if you do a Part II video, do yourself a favor and check out Illinois alt rockers, HUM, aka the most "seriously slept on" band of the 90s! You've said yourself before that you were interested in checking them out (that was a while ago, though). 22 years in between 'Downward is Heavenward' and 'Inlet!' Sadly, their drummer passed away, and they've always had a sturdy lineup, so idk if they'll record any more songs, much less albums. 😕
Avalanches 16 year gap between their debut and their second album is pretty impressive. I was still in school listening to their debut on CD and I listened to their follow up on Spotify when I was settled down with a job and a kid
Doves is another good example, after four albums in the 00's, they went on hiatus after their fourth album Kingdom of Rust in 2009 and reunited in 2020 with The Universal Want, which was critically acclaimed and topped the UK album chart despite the fact it seemed everyone forgot about them.
You can add my favorite band Extreme in this; album 4 came out in 1995, album 5 didn’t come out until 2008, now it’s 14 years again and they have a new album ready to be released, it’s been hoped for since 2012 when it was allegedly ready. I’ll believe it when I see it at this point, but it will be well worth wait!
was expecting Guns n’ Roses to appear on here, with it taking 15 years for them to release Chinese Democracy, and another 14 now and still no new album (though i can understand since you haven’t listened to CD)
One that comes to mind for me was the Misfits' American Psycho which came out 14 years after their 3rd album Earth AD. Static Age was released only one yesr prior as well.
In relation to the ilk of acts you have covered here (alternative), the comeback album from Faith No More, 'Sol Invictus' (2015) was released 18 years after it's predecessor 'Album Of The Year'. Honourable mention to Devo - 'Something For Everybody' (2010), which came out 20 years after the previous album. Almost as long a gap as The Cars - 'Move Like This' which was released in the same year.
@@soupcat5728 yes, though Mr. Bungle also split-up in 2000 & only 3 members are in the current reunion from 2020, with an even longer gap than FNM between albums (21 years since 'California')
My favorite band L’Arc~en~Ciel (they’re Japanese) haven’t released an album in a decade and it makes me very sad. They’re still semi-active, performing live pretty often and occasionally releasing an odd single here and there, but no album in sight. I miss my boys!
Always psyched when others remember At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta! Also, The Mars Volta finally put out a comeback album in 2022, and while it was a big departure from what they had done before, I liked the album... it wasn't spectacular, but it was good. Also also, surprised you didn't mention anything about Sparta, which was ATDI without Omar and Cedric. I know a lot of people loved Sparta, but I was not one of them.
In addition to Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, A Perfect Circle, and Guns N' Roses (each of which I was going to mention but saw in the comments already), another one I would mention is the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. They released their most recent album _The Incident_ in 2009. After touring for that finished up in 2010, they went on an indefinite hiatus, with each of the band members doing their own things over the 2010s-- drummer Gavin Harrison eventually joined up with the Pineapple Thief, and both bassist Colin Edwin and keyboardist Richard Barbieri worked on several projects over the course of the decade. Notably, though, it was vocalist/guitarist Steven Wilson's desire to focus on solo projects that really seemed to spell the end of the band; he released several notable solo albums in that time, and it seemed like he had decided that continuing Porcupine Tree would be a step backwards in his trajectory. And then, in November of last year, when everybody least expected it, the band dropped a bombshell on their fans by putting out a new single "Harridan" out of the blue, and announcing they had reformed (albeit, without Edwin) and were releasing a new album called _Closure/Continuation._ The album is finally due later this month, after 13 years of silence.
I would say Blind Melon falls under this too, after splitting in 1995 following Shannon Hoon's death (RIP) they came back in 2006 to release another album in 2008 "For my Friends" with Travis Warren taking over. Then they just vanished for sometime before coming back with music 11 years later, the band are apparently to make a 4th album since they've released enough singles to be another album. If they do one then i'd probably be happy but who knows with it coming on and off over the years.
Obscure late 80s/early 90s alt metal act Last Crack put out an astounding album in 1991 called Burning Time. Various pressures caused the lineup to splinter. Vocalist Buddo left and the band recruited another guy. An album of demos came out in 1994 or so, but then they vanished. Apparently in the 10s, Buddo rejoined the band to play some shows for fun and ultimately released The Up Rising in 2019, which was stunningly good album that would have been a great follow up had it come out in 1993 or so. Might have gotten them in the same discussion as Tool back then. Either way, I was so happy to hear them again and better than ever. Black Flag was mentioned elsewhere. Greg Ginn quit the band in 1986 (effectively ending it), then put together a lineup in 2013 to compete with the tribute act Flag (featuring past members of 80s Black Flag). That lineup imploded when vocalist Ron Reyes was fired during (or after a show). What The..., the album they recorded, was mediocre and an embarrassing blemish on the band's legacy. Descendents went 9 years between albums (1987's All, and 1996's Everything Sux) because Milo pursued academics and the rest of the guys pressed ahead as ALL. Everything Sux is one of their best albums ever. Still making albums off and on and killing it live. These are the bands that came to mind while watching!
For Pink Floyd, they had 20 years between The Division Bell and The Endless River. But, considering Endless River is expanding on the material recorded for Division Bell but not used for that album, one can think it isn't even really a proper comeback album.
Have you heard of Ethel Cain? A few weeks ago she released her new album Preacher's daughter. I would like to know your opinion about the album. Greetings!
My favorite band Electric Light Orchestra did this twice (lucky me!). I had to wait from Balance of Power [1986] until Zoom [2001], and then almost another 15 years until Alone in the Universe [2015]. Jeff Lynne is an amazing musician, which is how he got away with it, haha.
Pixies had 4 amazing albums and an ep. since the comeback sadly they havent done anything that iconic but i have hopes they can do a really good album again... maybe I wouldve liked to see an album done when kim had rejoined in the early 2000s
Mars Volta will qualify for the list too when their new record comes out, the last album Noctourniquet came out in 2012 making it 10 years. Can't wait for the new album man
Bobby Womack's final album came 12 years after his last and 18 years after his last with original material. Apparently after being convinced to feature on a few Plastic Beach tracks it made him want to put out new material again. I haven't listened to much of his material but I plan to. I'm going to Gorillaz songs as a springboard. If a song has a feature that I like, I'll check out the musician's work. That brought me to Del the Funky Homosapien/Deltron 3030 already.
Im honestly shocked nobody in the comments (that I see) has mentioned American Football. They released just one genre defining legendary album before disbanding and returning with sequels to that album 14 years later Also honorable mention The Microphones, which only counts if you consider Mt. Eerie separate entity which is arguable, but it definitely took people by surprise to hear The Microphones moniker being used in a 2020 album after retiring that moniker for the longest time
I would add the Avalanches to this list. They dropped their amazing debut album Since I Left You back in 2000, only to not release their sophomore album Wildflower until 2016 (a whopping 16 years later), due to the fact that the process of making Wildflower took way much longer than anticipated, and was compounded by several band members leaving the group during this period of time. Thankfully, we didn't have to wait that long between albums #2 and #3, with We Will Always Love You coming out at the end of 2020.
It's funny how it has also been 10 years since The Mars Volta's Noctourniquet. Even if things somehow got resolved and a 7th album gets made, though, I'm kind of worried about how it would go since fans are generally mixed on Octahedron and Noctourniquet, though I at least like all six albums.
No Ikey Owens on neither of those projects. And now that I actually looked it up and didnt just make up facts off the top of my head Ikey was in Mars Volta during Octahedron but NOT ultimately on the album.
He says he doesn't like it (breaking his 'no more than 2 songs before album release' rule though, curiously) and kind of said in a recent stream that he's losing interest in Muse
The Beach Boys (at least with Brian Wilson as a full-time member) and Graham Parker & the Rumour reunited to make new albums, respectively, after 27 and 31 years.
VERY late to the party here but My Vitriol more than deserves a spot here. Especially after releasing a new album sampler on a live release in 2006 and the album not being released until 2017, and even then its not really a proper studio release
There were 13 years between Pedro the Lion albums, although David Bazan was still active, who essentially is the band... And 13 years between Blind Melon albums, albeit with a different singer - RIP Shannon. And 10 years between 1997's Hand it Over, and 2007's Beyond, by Dinosaur Jr.
Also, The Avalanches went 16 years and I'd say it was worth it because I loved _Wildflower_ (2016) and nothing was ever going to compare to _Since I Left You_ (2000) anyway
@@theseth455 True! It has been a while since Radiohead, I sometimes forget about the band (despite being a fan) given how irregular their studio installments are these days.
@@debonaire_nerd yeah they’ve really taken their time in general since HTTT between releases. Probably for the better too. Some fans I’ve noticed online are theorizing their next record could even be their last.
Finally, the first comment beside my own that mentioned this. I thought it was an obvious pick for this video but was surprised to see it not even being discussed in the comments. It was definitely a band you never expected to hear from again.
I was definitely sad when I heard Jim Ward wasn't going to be on the new ATDI album, but then I remembered their greatest work, In el gran orgo, didn't have Jim Ward on it and it is an EP that doesn't leave my car CD player for weeks at a time. One good band that went over a decade between albums was Slowdive. Ride also went over a decade and Swervedriver went very close to a decade between albums. Lastly, the band Hum also went over a decade between releases. I guess the common denominator is they were all influential shoegazing bands that reformed for the shoegazing revival in the mid-2010s. Lastly, Blur went over a decade between releases. It was cool to see all those bands have successful revivals.
Surprised Limp Bizkit isn’t on here. In 2021 their comeback actually drew up some hype. But once we heard the album any momentum just seemed to drop off
Both Cynic and Atheist, two death metal bands who cribbed from jazz, didn't release an album for over ten years until they dropped "Traced in Air" and "Jupiter" respectively. Of course, neither band has released an album in about the same amount of time. Wire were pretty much done by the early 90s, but then the 00s brought the Read & Burn series and they've been putting out material ever since.
Days of the new should've been included. It took 20 years to release the newest album but it's disappointing that it's only Travis Meeks in the album for various reasons.
Love in the movie Big Lebowski when hes in the taxi and pleads with the driver to turn off the eagles "I fucking hate the Eagles man...". That bout sums up how I feel about the Eagles haha.
As a huge Mötley Crüe fan as a kid it pains me to see Mötley Crüe the way they are now I saw them during crew fest 2 and they were good but now Mötley Crüe are a former shell of themselves
My brother in Christ, Meshuggah has released *3* albums in the past 10 years. They usually take around 4 to 5 years to release new material. Mudvayne doesn't fit this list neither, but with their comeback i hope they do release actual new material soon.
@@miserirken they were on hiatus not broken up, new material is on the way… yea I forgot about the violent sleep of reason… dead to fall has tour dates but as of yet no new album, but pretty sure…
@@miserirken uhh yes, just like Tool when they were on hiatus and didn’t release any material due to a lawsuit, but still they fit the bill, same as Mudvayne due to side projects…
Hey, uh, it’s been like 10+ years? Y’all dropping that album or what?
Thanks for watching/liking, appreciate all the support on these SOS episodes 🚀
I think this deserves a part 2 but maybe wait 10+ years to put it out lol
New Porcupine Tree
mbv was amazing, happy to see it on here!! Hopefully more to come.
Mazzy Star was another good one. More of the same but in a good way
There was the 2012 Soundgarden album “King Animal.” It was their first since 1996’s “Down On The Upside.” Sadly, this comeback didn’t last long. R.I.P. Chris Cornell
Love that album !
A Tribe Called Quest took 18 years in between The Love Movement and their final album We Got It From Here Thank You for Your Service. RIP Phife :(
Speaking of Tool, A Perfect Circle took 14 years from Emotive to Eat the Elephant.
Yeah no one really talks about that. I didn't even know until someone pointed it out around the time Tool's album came out
One of the best come back albums after more than ten years between releases for me is Alice In Chains. It was 14 years between the final album with Layne (self titled) and come back album with Black Gives Away to Blue. Such a great album.
It's amazing how William Duvall sounds like Layne Staley in some ways yet has his own distinctive voice. I also understand Layne's parents gave their blessing for AIC to continue and are very supportive, which is super sweet.
really have to agree,black gives way to blue is such a great album,i love that darkness in it
I know some aren’t a fan that AIC continued but Black Gives Way to Blue might be my second favorite album after Dirt
I would put ABBA on the list with their 40 year wait between albums after The Visitors with Voyage.
Black Sabbath had an 18 year wait between Forbidden and 13, but it was over 20 years between Ozzy Osbourne’s departure and then the proper comeback in 1999 and 14 years for a new album with Ozzy again after 35 years.
And Busted, it was 13 years between albums from 2003 and 2016, after A Present For Everyone was released and it was Busted’s split in 2005, before returning in 2015 and Night Driver came out a year later and it’s amazing after so many years of waiting and speculating that it will never happen.
Finally Take That split in 1996 after Robbie Williams left in 95 and Nobody Else was their last album for 11 years before coming back without Robbie for Beautiful World in 2006, and then after four years, Robbie Williams came back to the band for Progress in 2010, which I think is the best comeback for the band ever. And Gary Barlow also had 14 years between solo albums too from 1999 to 2013, and it was amazing too.
I celebrated the day Take That split up. Their shitty boyband crap was everywhere for a while in the 90's and it irritated the hell out of me....then Boyzone and East 17 came along and they wouldn't fuck off either. Followed closely by the least talented "band" in modern history, Spicegirls. There was so much awesome music in the 90's but people were conned into buying that boyband/girlband crap that all sounded the same. I'm sure Gary Barlow and Robbie Williams are decent people, but they ruined any respect I could ever have for them by being in Take That.
@@rbarnett3200 I respect your opinions on why you hate all the boy/girl band groups, but it doesn't mean that I don't dislike them, because I was bought up on their music before I started listening to other stuff, however, and I always followed Gary Barlow the most out of them all, however, Robbie's music has some really good stuff in his early career and he has lost it a bit now, but he reformed when his Christmas Album came out in my opinion, but I don't hate any of their music.
@@lewiscarty5517 I get that. I really don't judge people's music tastes. I was just saying they were the bane of my life when I was a teenager. I was listening to grunge, metal and hip-hop but if you ever wanted to see or hear that stuff you'd need MTV2. But the over saturation of boybands was just hateful at the time. I still have no idea why Spicegirls were ever popular though. Their breakthrough first single was garbage then, and it's garbage now. All their music was rubbish. I can appreciate the musicianship of Barlow and Williams though. They did actually write their own stuff, so fair play, it's just not to my taste.
Swans went through this as well. After releasing their landmark 1996 album Soundtracks for the Blind, they did a farewell tour the next year (as seen on the live CD "Swans Are Dead"), broke up, and then got back together in 2010, releasing their comeback album "My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky" later that same year. While not their most exciting or unique album, it certainly helped get the creative juices flowing again for what would be to come out later, leading to the epic trilogy of 2-hour albums that is The Seer, To Be Kind and The Glowing Man, which would garner arguably the most critical and commercial success the band would ever see.
Failure is a good example. They formed in the 90s and released 3 albums, with their last being Fantastic Planet it 1996. Then they broke up, but 19 years later, in 2015, they released The Heart is a Monster. And they have been active again ever since, dropping two more albums after that.
i saw people mentioning A Perfect Circle already (understandable, since Tool is here), so i'm gonna mention another post-hardcore pioneers a la At The Drive-In.
Glassjaw took 15 years to release a new album, from Worship & Tribute(2002) to Material Control (2017). Though they released some EPs between those years (their best material might be the 2011 EPs Our Color Green and Coloring Book), so they weren't innactive per se.
I’d add Refused to this list. The band broke up in 1998 with three albums under their belt, but reformed in 2014 and released a fourth album the next year.
Except nobody ever heard of them
MBV was fantastic, I might even enjoy it slightly more than Loveless. She found now, only tommorow, Is this and yes, new you, and wonder 2 are some of my favorite songs they’ve ever put out.
The band Hum, a bit more obscure compared to the ones in your list, had gone over 22 years before releasing another album with Inlet (2020) and Downward is Heavenward (1998). It's really impressive to see how strong of a comeback Inlet was considering the quality of the album and the fact that it's been over 2 decades since they released an album before that.
i was just about to say ABBA. I think that's the longest gap between studio albums in history! But great list otherwise Jon. Hopefully we'll be adding the cure to this list when "Songs of A lost Worls" finally comes out this year !!
If this vid came out a bit later I'm sure MCR would be in this list, I really feel an album is on the horizon with The Foundations of Decay releasing.
First of all - thank you for the video. Next, I'd like to mention a few other bands that would suit this list.
Alice in Chains - 14 years between self-titled and Black Gives Way to Blue
L7 - 20 years between Slap/Happy and Scatter the Rats
Stray Cats - 27 years between Choo Choo Hot Fish and 40
The Stooges - 34 years between Raw Power and The Weirdness
The Sonics - 48 (!!!) years between Introducing The Sonics and This Is The Sonics
Death (proto-punk band from Detroit) - well, technically doesn't count since their debut was released in 2009, but it was recorded in 1975 and was unreleased for all those years. And their second full-length LP of new material (N.E.W.) came out in 2015, making in a 40 years gap. Even if you don't count it as suitable for this list, the story of this band is fascinating and I highly recommend you checking it out.
i call myself a chains fan yet this 1st i hear of black gives way to blue
@@brianpinion5844 yes, they have reformed quite a while ago with a new singer. Look it up, that album is really good, in my opinion at least. There were 2 more albums after that.
HUM!! Please, if you do a Part II video, do yourself a favor and check out Illinois alt rockers, HUM, aka the most "seriously slept on" band of the 90s! You've said yourself before that you were interested in checking them out (that was a while ago, though). 22 years in between 'Downward is Heavenward' and 'Inlet!' Sadly, their drummer passed away, and they've always had a sturdy lineup, so idk if they'll record any more songs, much less albums. 😕
Avalanches 16 year gap between their debut and their second album is pretty impressive. I was still in school listening to their debut on CD and I listened to their follow up on Spotify when I was settled down with a job and a kid
Honorable Mentions:
Slowdive
Sleep
At The Gates
Refused
Doves is another good example, after four albums in the 00's, they went on hiatus after their fourth album Kingdom of Rust in 2009 and reunited in 2020 with The Universal Want, which was critically acclaimed and topped the UK album chart despite the fact it seemed everyone forgot about them.
For a very rare change, "critically acclaimed" didn't mean "cr&p". I love them.
I love The Universal Want!
Hoping MCR will be eligible to appear on part 2!!
Fun vid , thanks for putting it together
You can add my favorite band Extreme in this; album 4 came out in 1995, album 5 didn’t come out until 2008, now it’s 14 years again and they have a new album ready to be released, it’s been hoped for since 2012 when it was allegedly ready. I’ll believe it when I see it at this point, but it will be well worth wait!
where is slowdive
The Cure
No album since 2008 😞
They did have that really great song, 'It can never be the same' come out a few years back leaving us all craving for the new album though lol.
was expecting Guns n’ Roses to appear on here, with it taking 15 years for them to release Chinese Democracy, and another 14 now and still no new album (though i can understand since you haven’t listened to CD)
One that comes to mind for me was the Misfits' American Psycho which came out 14 years after their 3rd album Earth AD. Static Age was released only one yesr prior as well.
In relation to the ilk of acts you have covered here (alternative), the comeback album from Faith No More, 'Sol Invictus' (2015) was released 18 years after it's predecessor 'Album Of The Year'.
Honourable mention to Devo - 'Something For Everybody' (2010), which came out 20 years after the previous album. Almost as long a gap as The Cars - 'Move Like This' which was released in the same year.
if I remember right I think cause they split in 1998 and Mike went to continue with Mr Bungle throughout before they came back in 2009.
@@soupcat5728 yes, though Mr. Bungle also split-up in 2000 & only 3 members are in the current reunion from 2020, with an even longer gap than FNM between albums (21 years since 'California')
@@dragonfly1694 Yeah Mike Patton really likes to take gaps huh
You forgot to mention Quicksand - Interiors, after they break up in 1995. And they're still rocking better than ever.
My favorite band L’Arc~en~Ciel (they’re Japanese) haven’t released an album in a decade and it makes me very sad. They’re still semi-active, performing live pretty often and occasionally releasing an odd single here and there, but no album in sight. I miss my boys!
I've heard them. Yeah, they were really good.
Hum realeased Downward Is Heavenward in 1998. It wasnt until 22 years later they released their next album, Inlet, in 2020.
Always psyched when others remember At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta! Also, The Mars Volta finally put out a comeback album in 2022, and while it was a big departure from what they had done before, I liked the album... it wasn't spectacular, but it was good.
Also also, surprised you didn't mention anything about Sparta, which was ATDI without Omar and Cedric. I know a lot of people loved Sparta, but I was not one of them.
In addition to Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, A Perfect Circle, and Guns N' Roses (each of which I was going to mention but saw in the comments already), another one I would mention is the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. They released their most recent album _The Incident_ in 2009. After touring for that finished up in 2010, they went on an indefinite hiatus, with each of the band members doing their own things over the 2010s-- drummer Gavin Harrison eventually joined up with the Pineapple Thief, and both bassist Colin Edwin and keyboardist Richard Barbieri worked on several projects over the course of the decade. Notably, though, it was vocalist/guitarist Steven Wilson's desire to focus on solo projects that really seemed to spell the end of the band; he released several notable solo albums in that time, and it seemed like he had decided that continuing Porcupine Tree would be a step backwards in his trajectory. And then, in November of last year, when everybody least expected it, the band dropped a bombshell on their fans by putting out a new single "Harridan" out of the blue, and announcing they had reformed (albeit, without Edwin) and were releasing a new album called _Closure/Continuation._ The album is finally due later this month, after 13 years of silence.
I would say Blind Melon falls under this too, after splitting in 1995 following Shannon Hoon's death (RIP) they came back in 2006 to release another album in 2008 "For my Friends" with Travis Warren taking over. Then they just vanished for sometime before coming back with music 11 years later, the band are apparently to make a 4th album since they've released enough singles to be another album.
If they do one then i'd probably be happy but who knows with it coming on and off over the years.
Dishwalla from that era had a lead singer change (not due to death) too and then made an album over a decade later
@@MusicOrLoseItTVPlaylists oh yeah of course cause Justin Fox joined and the most recent album was 2017.
@@soupcat5728 In April they released a seeming new music video so perhaps new album coming with updated lead signer
As far as more underground bands go I’d also add Failure, Hum, Shiner, and Swervedriver to this list
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Obscure late 80s/early 90s alt metal act Last Crack put out an astounding album in 1991 called Burning Time. Various pressures caused the lineup to splinter. Vocalist Buddo left and the band recruited another guy. An album of demos came out in 1994 or so, but then they vanished. Apparently in the 10s, Buddo rejoined the band to play some shows for fun and ultimately released The Up Rising in 2019, which was stunningly good album that would have been a great follow up had it come out in 1993 or so. Might have gotten them in the same discussion as Tool back then. Either way, I was so happy to hear them again and better than ever.
Black Flag was mentioned elsewhere. Greg Ginn quit the band in 1986 (effectively ending it), then put together a lineup in 2013 to compete with the tribute act Flag (featuring past members of 80s Black Flag). That lineup imploded when vocalist Ron Reyes was fired during (or after a show). What The..., the album they recorded, was mediocre and an embarrassing blemish on the band's legacy.
Descendents went 9 years between albums (1987's All, and 1996's Everything Sux) because Milo pursued academics and the rest of the guys pressed ahead as ALL. Everything Sux is one of their best albums ever. Still making albums off and on and killing it live.
These are the bands that came to mind while watching!
For Pink Floyd, they had 20 years between The Division Bell and The Endless River. But, considering Endless River is expanding on the material recorded for Division Bell but not used for that album, one can think it isn't even really a proper comeback album.
More like a delayed coda than a comeback. I don't think it was released with any intention to return as a proper working/touring band.
Oh I don’t know why I didn’t mention them on stream the other night but the band Hum could’ve been on here actually
Have you heard of Ethel Cain? A few weeks ago she released her new album Preacher's daughter. I would like to know your opinion about the album. Greetings!
My favorite band Electric Light Orchestra did this twice (lucky me!). I had to wait from Balance of Power [1986] until Zoom [2001], and then almost another 15 years until Alone in the Universe [2015]. Jeff Lynne is an amazing musician, which is how he got away with it, haha.
Pixies had 4 amazing albums and an ep. since the comeback sadly they havent done anything that iconic but i have hopes they can do a really good album again... maybe
I wouldve liked to see an album done when kim had rejoined in the early 2000s
Mars Volta will qualify for the list too when their new record comes out, the last album Noctourniquet came out in 2012 making it 10 years. Can't wait for the new album man
Bobby Womack's final album came 12 years after his last and 18 years after his last with original material. Apparently after being convinced to feature on a few Plastic Beach tracks it made him want to put out new material again.
I haven't listened to much of his material but I plan to. I'm going to Gorillaz songs as a springboard. If a song has a feature that I like, I'll check out the musician's work. That brought me to Del the Funky Homosapien/Deltron 3030 already.
Tom Scholz is reliable for a half hour of new Boston music once a decade.
Please review Let Go 20th Anniversary version!!
The Katies would fit here. Released their first album in 1999, and their sophomore album in May.
23 years apart.
Im honestly shocked nobody in the comments (that I see) has mentioned American Football. They released just one genre defining legendary album before disbanding and returning with sequels to that album 14 years later
Also honorable mention The Microphones, which only counts if you consider Mt. Eerie separate entity which is arguable, but it definitely took people by surprise to hear The Microphones moniker being used in a 2020 album after retiring that moniker for the longest time
I feel bad for fans of The Sonics. They had to wait _48 YEARS_ for their third album.
ABBA waited 40 years before releasing a new album.
I would add the Avalanches to this list. They dropped their amazing debut album Since I Left You back in 2000, only to not release their sophomore album Wildflower until 2016 (a whopping 16 years later), due to the fact that the process of making Wildflower took way much longer than anticipated, and was compounded by several band members leaving the group during this period of time. Thankfully, we didn't have to wait that long between albums #2 and #3, with We Will Always Love You coming out at the end of 2020.
It's funny how it has also been 10 years since The Mars Volta's Noctourniquet. Even if things somehow got resolved and a 7th album gets made, though, I'm kind of worried about how it would go since fans are generally mixed on Octahedron and Noctourniquet, though I at least like all six albums.
No Ikey Owens on neither of those projects.
And now that I actually looked it up and didnt just make up facts off the top of my head
Ikey was in Mars Volta during Octahedron but NOT ultimately on the album.
Death, kinda had 40 years between recording albums
Cirith Ungol released their best album after 29 years a few years ago!
Have you heard the new Muse single, ‘Will Of The People’?
Great video, btw!
He says he doesn't like it (breaking his 'no more than 2 songs before album release' rule though, curiously) and kind of said in a recent stream that he's losing interest in Muse
Limp bizkit. Also watched your abcdefu video and im curious about your thoughts on her new ep
I hope Avenged Sevenfold doesn't end up on a list like this in the future 😪
Their album is being released this summer
The Beach Boys (at least with Brian Wilson as a full-time member) and Graham Parker & the Rumour reunited to make new albums, respectively, after 27 and 31 years.
VERY late to the party here but My Vitriol more than deserves a spot here. Especially after releasing a new album sampler on a live release in 2006 and the album not being released until 2017, and even then its not really a proper studio release
There were 13 years between Pedro the Lion albums, although David Bazan was still active, who essentially is the band... And 13 years between Blind Melon albums, albeit with a different singer - RIP Shannon. And 10 years between 1997's Hand it Over, and 2007's Beyond, by Dinosaur Jr.
Linda Perhacs released her debut album in 1970 and her follow-up in 2014. That’s a 44 year gap!
2:05 You missed the chance to say "DOlittle, too late"
Black Flag's 'What The..." Came out 28 years after the previous record in 1985.
And they could have kept it to themselves...
You should have talked about the sisters of mercy here
TOOL is fantastic. They didn't drop for 15 years and their record still opened at #1 OVER Taylor Swift. That's karma for you
What about No Doubt (2001-13) & Portishead (1997-2008)? :D
Also, The Avalanches went 16 years and I'd say it was worth it because I loved _Wildflower_ (2016) and nothing was ever going to compare to _Since I Left You_ (2000) anyway
Fun fact: Metallica will be added to this list if the follow-up to HardWired To Self-Destruct isn't released by 2026.
Same with Radiohead if they don’t release a followup to a moon shaped pool.
@@theseth455 True! It has been a while since Radiohead, I sometimes forget about the band (despite being a fan) given how irregular their studio installments are these days.
@@debonaire_nerd yeah they’ve really taken their time in general since HTTT between releases. Probably for the better too. Some fans I’ve noticed online are theorizing their next record could even be their last.
Can't forget Blue Oyster Cult. 19 years between Curse of the Hidden Mirror and The Symbol Remains
I was surprised when American Football dropped their sophomore album after it being 17 years
Finally, the first comment beside my own that mentioned this. I thought it was an obvious pick for this video but was surprised to see it not even being discussed in the comments. It was definitely a band you never expected to hear from again.
I was definitely sad when I heard Jim Ward wasn't going to be on the new ATDI album, but then I remembered their greatest work, In el gran orgo, didn't have Jim Ward on it and it is an EP that doesn't leave my car CD player for weeks at a time. One good band that went over a decade between albums was Slowdive. Ride also went over a decade and Swervedriver went very close to a decade between albums. Lastly, the band Hum also went over a decade between releases. I guess the common denominator is they were all influential shoegazing bands that reformed for the shoegazing revival in the mid-2010s. Lastly, Blur went over a decade between releases. It was cool to see all those bands have successful revivals.
Zolar X, one of the best bands known to mankind, released their debut album too late in 1982, the really great second album came out 2007.
Tears for Fears "The Tipping Point", their first album in 18 years is stellar
Surprised Limp Bizkit isn’t on here. In 2021 their comeback actually drew up some hype. But once we heard the album any momentum just seemed to drop off
“Still Sucks” is however perhaps the best title for a comeback.
Did people forget about 'Gold Cobra?'
@@josephkrebaum7502 There are 10 years between Gold Cobra and Still Sucks.
Faith no more - album of the year 1997 - sol invictus 2014
Pinkerton to Green Album felt like a lifetime in real time.
Van Halen w/David Lee Roth
Went 28 years without making an album together. "1984" (1984) & "A Different Kind Of Truth" (2012)
Steely Dan is a big one too.
Both Cynic and Atheist, two death metal bands who cribbed from jazz, didn't release an album for over ten years until they dropped "Traced in Air" and "Jupiter" respectively. Of course, neither band has released an album in about the same amount of time.
Wire were pretty much done by the early 90s, but then the 00s brought the Read & Burn series and they've been putting out material ever since.
Many Green Day "fans" would say that Saviors came out after 20 years of waiting for a new album.
Kevin Shields said last year that we’d have a new album by the end of 2021… Kevin will be Kevin
Steely Dan went over 20 years between studio albums
Van Halen
Guns 'N Roses
Jane's Addiction
What bout The Black Crowes
Faith No More took the 00s off between Album of the Year & Sol Invictus.
The Connells went 20 years without an album, 2001-2021
And the 01 album was on a small label anyway
No one gonna mention Aphex Twin? 13 years between “Drukqs” (2001) to “Syro” (2014).
Aphex Twin isn't a band!
@@artvjon That’s like saying Foetus isn’t a band.
Big Eagles fan here and I’ll never drop off my vinyl copies off at a Goodwill. 🙂
Possessed - 33 years between albums
Days of the new should've been included. It took 20 years to release the newest album but it's disappointing that it's only Travis Meeks in the album for various reasons.
Trompe Le Monde is one of my favorite albums ever. I wish that they ended there and didn’t reunite.
Blue Öyster Cult, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Abba...
Love in the movie Big Lebowski when hes in the taxi and pleads with the driver to turn off the eagles "I fucking hate the Eagles man...". That bout sums up how I feel about the Eagles haha.
Rammstein was five months shy of 10 years (2009-2019).
Still waiting for Jawbreaker 5…
Because they recorded 50 years ago for this specific place in this specific time for this specific purpose enjoy the music
Aphex Twin went 13 years between Druqks and Syro.
As a huge Mötley Crüe fan as a kid it pains me to see Mötley Crüe the way they are now I saw them during crew fest 2 and they were good but now Mötley Crüe are a former shell of themselves
Hum?????
Needless to say, Swifties we're pissed when tool's long awaited album topped the charts.
System of a Down had been 15 years but atleast they released “protect the land”
1. Mudvayne
2. Meshuggah ( but we finally got it )
3. Dead to Fall
My brother in Christ, Meshuggah has released *3* albums in the past 10 years. They usually take around 4 to 5 years to release new material.
Mudvayne doesn't fit this list neither, but with their comeback i hope they do release actual new material soon.
@@miserirken they were on hiatus not broken up, new material is on the way… yea I forgot about the violent sleep of reason… dead to fall has tour dates but as of yet no new album, but pretty sure…
@@frosteddonuts6156 Never said Mudvayne broke up, yet still, as far as they don't release nothing new, they don't fit in this list's criteria.
@@miserirken uhh yes, just like Tool when they were on hiatus and didn’t release any material due to a lawsuit, but still they fit the bill, same as Mudvayne due to side projects…