2020 in rock music

This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2020.

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Notable events

January

February
  • Five Finger Death Punch releases their eighth studio album F8. The album debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 55,000 album equivalent units in its opening week. The album also tops the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums chart. It is the band's seventh album to do so, making them tied with Linkin Park for band to top the chart the most time since its inception in 2007.[18] The album is themed around the troubles the band had faced over the last few years, including an extended legal battle with their past record label, frontman Ivan Moody's public struggle with substance abuse to the point of almost dying, and the departure of long-time drummer Jeremy Spencer.[19] [20]

March
  • I Prevail single "Hurricane" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, and stays there for two weeks.[21]
  • Volbeat's single "Die to Live" Tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for a single week. It is their eighth song to do so, tying them with U2 for European band with most songs topping the chart.[22]
  • Green Day's single "Oh Yeah!" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for a week.[23]
  • Pearl Jam releases their eleventh studio album, Gigaton, their first album since 2013. It debuts at number 5 on the Billboard 200, selling 63,000 album equivalent units. The album performed particularly well on vinyl, selling 14,000 copies, the second highest week for a 2020 release in 2020.[24]
  • The COVID-19 pandemic causes musical events around the world to be postponed or cancelled, as the virus is highly contagious, and health and government officials instate social distancing measures making the events impossible. Notable rock events postponed inclue the Asian leg of the Hella Mega Tour (featuring Green Day, Weezer, and Fall Out Boy), the Rage Against the Machine reunion tour, latter dates of the My Chemical Romance reunion tour, parts of Kiss' "End of the Road World Tour," and the 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.[25]
  • In light of the social distancing measures, many artists instead decide to live-stream live performances straight out of their own homes. Of note is the internationally televised iHeart Living Room Concert for America event, which featured live acoustic performances by Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day.[26]

April
  • Breaking Benjamin's single "Far Away", featuring Scooter Ward of the band Cold, tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. It is the band's seventh song to top the chart, and Ward's first. It stays there for three consecutive weeks.[27]
  • Dance Gavin Dance releases their ninth studio album, Afterburner. The album debuts at number 14 on the Billboard 200, selling over 23,000 copies. The achievement is rare, as the Coronavirus pandemic led to the band releasing no physical copies of the album, and rock music often relying more on physical sales than digital and streaming in comparison to other genre. It is just short of being the bands best-selling debut as well.[28]
  • The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic continues the trend of musicians livestreaming performances, especially of cover songs:

May

June

Notable future releases

Below are a list of higher profile rock music releases outlined by reliable sources.

  • Weezer is scheduled to release their fourteenth studio album, Van Weezer. Band frontman Rivers Cuomo stated that, after releasing a relatively guitar-light album in 2019 - Weezer (Black Album), that the band would return to a guitar heavy album in 2020, with heavy emphasis on guitar riffs and guitar solos. The album was inspired by enthusiastic fans response to these aspects of their live shows in recent years. The first single, "The End of the Game", contains over 100 guitar overdubs.[38]
  • Static X is scheduled to release their seventh studio album Project Regeneration. The album is the first to be released posthumously after the death of frontman and band founder Wayne Static in 2014. The album uses vocal tracks of Static recorded prior to his death, during the Shadow Zone and Start a War era. A fair amount of controversy arose leading up to its release, including the recording of an album without Wayne Static, using an anonymous singer in touring that was dressed like a deceased Wayne Static, and accusations from ex-guitarist Tripp Eisen that he had not been allowed to participate despite being a major contributor during the time of the recording of the vocal takes, feeling that they were "violating the memory" with changes being made to the content written during the time.[39][40][41]
  • A Day to Remember is scheduled to release their seventh studio album You're Welcome. The album was given the title after frontman Jeremy McKinnon noticed that a fan predicted the name for the album after seeing him in a photo online with the words on a shirt he was wearing. At the time of the picture being taken, it was not the album title, and the prediction had not been correct.[42]
  • Greta Van Fleet is scheduled to release their second full-length album. Lead singer Josh Kiszka describes it as "the next step...in the evolution in the sound of the band", an allusion to the fact that the band's sounds is often considered extremely similar to Led Zeppelin.[43]
  • Foo Fighters is scheduled to release their tenth studio album. Frontman Dave Grohl has worked on demos throughout 2019, with his only description of the material being that it is musically "weird".[44][45]
  • The Offspring is scheduled to release their tenth studio album, their first since 2012. Guitarist "Noodles" that the process had been slow due to trying to change their sound, only to return to their normal punk rock sound.[46]
  • Seether is scheduled to release their eighth studio album. Frontman Shaun Morgan demoed material in early 2019 with plans of full recording occurring the same year.[47]
  • Deftones are scheduled to release their ninth studio album. The album was recorded in 2019, but not ready for release in the same year. Frontman Chino Moreno has stated that he hopes Stephen Carpenter's guitar riffs are more in the forefront of the album, and called it an experimental album similar to White Pony.[48]
  • Evanescence is aiming to release their fourth studio album, their first since 2011. Plans for a new album were announced in 2018 towards the end of their Synthesis era touring, which consisted of orchestral reworking of their past material.[49] Frontwoman Amy Lee conversely describes the new album as "heavy and dark" and similar to the sound of their second album, The Open Door.[50]
  • Nothing More is scheduled to release their sixth studio album, their first since their 2017 Grammy nominated The Stories We Tell Ourselves and "Go to War".[51]
  • Chevelle is scheduled to release their ninth studio album. Frontman Pete Loeffler describes the album as more melodic than past few albums.[52]
  • Bring Me the Horizon announces they are forgoing the recording of full-length albums in lieu of more frequent, smaller EP style releases, the first of which is scheduled for 2020.[53]
  • Smashing Pumpkins are scheduled to release a double album in 2020. Frontman Billy Corgan considers it the first real album to be released since the reformation of 3/4 of the band's original lineup in 2018, discounting the eight song Shiny and Oh So Bright album.[54]
  • Slipknot plans on releasing the experimental and oft-rumored and discussed Look Outside Your Window album in 2020. The album, recorded as a side-effort during the 2008 All Hope is Gone album sessions, is described as highly melodic and more of a Radiohead type sound.[55][56]
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers is scheduled to release another album, the first with guitarist John Frusciante, who left the band in 2009 but rejoined in January 2020.[57]
  • Serj Tankian, frontman of System of a Down, announced he plans on releasing an EP of material that he originally wrote for System of a Down material. With the band unable to agree how to proceed with recording new material, he instead decided to release it as solo material. The EP is title Elasticity, an allusion to the band's album Toxicity.[58]
  • Grey Daze, the band of Chester Bennington prior to joining Linkin Park in the 1990s, intends to release an album of material of re-recorded content created just prior to Bennington's death in 2017.[59]
  • Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails announces intentions to release collaborative new music.[60]

Deaths

Band breakups

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