List of longest gaps between studio albums

The following page lists the longest gaps of time between the release dates of consecutive studio albums from artists. For the purpose of this list, the albums shown have been officially released at least a decade (to the day) after their predecessor.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Artist	Previous album	Release date (previous)	Subsequent album	Release date (subsequent)	Total time between releases
Linda Perhacs	Parallelograms	1 April 1970	The Soul of All Natural Things	4 March 2014	43 years, 11 months
Shuggie Otis	Inspiration Information	October 1974	Inter-Fusion	April 2018	43 years, 6 months
Strawberry Alarm Clock	Good Morning Starshine	May 1969	Wake Up Where You Are	May 2012	43 years
Gryphon	Treason	1977	ReInvention	December 2018	41 years
The Vapors	Magnets	15 December 1981	Together	15 May 2020	38 years, 5 months
Chuck Berry	Rockit	August 1979	Chuck	9 June 2017 [lower-alpha 1]	37 years, 10 months
Parliament	Trombipulation	5 December 1980	Medicaid Fraud Dogg	22 May 2018	37 years, 5 months, 17 days
William Shatner	The Transformed Man	1968	Has Been	5 October 2004	36 years
Mike Love	Looking Back with Love	8 October 1981	Unleash the Love	17 November 2017	36 years, 1 month, 9 days
The Pop Group	For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?	21 March 1980	Citizen Zombie	23 February 2015	34 years, 11 months, 2 days
Vashti Bunyan	Just Another Diamond Day	December 1970	Lookaftering	17 October 2005	34 years, 10 months
The Stooges	Raw Power	7 February 1973	The Weirdness	6 March 2007	34 years, 27 days
Madam X	We Reserve the Right	1984	Monstrocity	31 August 2017	33 years
Possessed	Beyond the Gates	31 October 1986	Revelations of Oblivion	10 May 2019	32 years, 6 months, 10 days
Rock Goddess	Young and Free	1987	This Time	22 February 2019	32 years
Blackfoot	Vertical Smiles	15 October 1984	Southern Native	5 August 2016	31 years, 10 months, 10 days
Acid Reign	Obnoxious	6 April 1990	The Age Of Entitlement	27 September 2019	29 years, 5 months, 21 days
The Psychedelic Furs	World Outside	30 July 1991	Made of Rain	31 July 2020	29 years, 1 day
Michel Polnareff	Kâmâ Sutrâ	23 February 1990	Enfin!	30 November 2018	28 years, 5 months, 26 days
Eagles	The Long Run	24 September 1979	Long Road Out of Eden	30 October 2007	28 years, 1 month, 6 days
Paul Stanley	Paul Stanley	18 September 1978	Live to Win	24 October 2006	28 years, 1 month, 6 days
Black Flag	In My Head	October 1985	What The...	5 November 2013	28 years, 1 month
Van der Graaf Generator	The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome	2 September 1977	Present	25 April 2005	27 years, 7 months, 23 days
Femme Fatale	Femme Fatale	November 1988	One More for the Road	May 2016	27 years, 5 months
The Lilacs	The Lilacs Rise Above the Filth	1992	The Lilacs Endure	16 August 2019	27 years
X	hey Zeus!	8 June 1993	Alphabetland	22 April 2020	26 years, 10 months, 14 days
Chic	Chic-ism	3 March 1992	It's About Time	28 September 2018	26 years, 6 months, 25 days
Angel Witch	Frontal Assault	6 April 1986	As Above, So Below	12 March 2012	25 years, 11 months, 6 days
Gene Simmons	Gene Simmons	18 September 1978	Asshole	8 June 2004	25 years, 8 months, 20 days
Epitaph	Danger Man	1982	Remember the Daze	2007	25 years
Roger Waters	Amused to Death	1 September 1992	Is This the Life We Really Want?	2 June 2017	24 years, 8 months, 29 days
Michael Romeo	The Dark Chapter	April 1994	War of the Worlds, Pt. 1	27 July 2018	24 years, 3 months, c. 27 days
The Who	It's Hard	4 September 1982	Endless Wire	30 October 2006	24 years, 1 month, 26 days
Budgie	Deliver Us from Evil	23 October 1982	You're All Living in Cuckooland	7 November 2006	24 years, 15 days
The Cars	Door to Door	25 August 1987	Move Like This	10 May 2011	23 years, 8 months, 16 days
Giorgio Moroder	Forever Dancing	12 March 1992	Déjà Vu	12 June 2015	23 years, 3 months
The Zombies	Odessey and Oracle	19 April 1968	New World	April 1991	23 years
Quicksand	Manic Compression	28 February 1995	Interiors	10 November 2017	22 years, 8 months, 13 days
Pixies	Trompe le Monde	23 September 1991	Indie Cindy	19 April 2014	22 years, 6 months, 27 days
That Dog	Retreat from the Sun	8 April 1997	Old LP	4 October 2019	22 years, 5 months, 26 days
Hum	Downward is Heavenward	27 January 1998	Inlet	23 June 2020	22 years, 4 months, 27 days
Slowdive	Pygmalion	6 February 1995	Slowdive	5 May 2017	22 years, 2 months, 29 days
The Motels	Shock	August 1985	Clean Modern and Reasonable	September 2007	22 years, 1 month
David Gilmour	About Face	5 March 1984	On an Island	6 March 2006	22 years, 1 day
Johnny Hates Jazz	Tall Stories	June 1991	Magnetized	24 May 2013	21 years, 11 months
Mission of Burma	Vs.	11 October 1982	ONoffON	4 May 2004	21 years, 6 months, 23 days
The Vaselines	Dum-Dum	June 1989	Sex with an X	14 September 2010	21 years, 3 months
Ride	Tarantula	11 March 1996	Weather Diaries	16 June 2017	21 years, 3 months, 5 days
My Bloody Valentine	Loveless	4 November 1991	MBV	2 February 2013	21 years, 2 months, 29 days
Pink Floyd	The Division Bell	28 March 1994	The Endless River	10 November 2014	20 years, 7 months, 13 days
Devo	Smooth Noodle Maps	June 1990	Something for Everybody	15 June 2010	20 years
Ace Frehley	Trouble Walkin'	13 October 1989	Anomaly	15 September 2009	19 years, 11 months, 2 days
Zakk Wylde	Book of Shadows	18 June 1996	Book of Shadows II	8 April 2016	19 years, 9 months, 20 days
Black Grape	Stupid Stupid Stupid	10 November 1997	Pop Voodoo	4 August 2017	19 years, 8 months, 25 days
L7	Slap-Happy	24 August 1999	Scatter the Rats	3 May 2019	19 years, 8 months, 9 days
Charlotte Gainsbourg	Charlotte for Ever	December 1986	5:55	28 August 2006	19 years, 8 months
The Monkees	Justus	15 October 1996	Good Times!	27 May 2016	19 years, 7 months, 12 days
Louise Redknapp	Elbow Beach	31 July 2000	Heavy Love	17 January 2020	19 years, 5 months, 18 days
Duster	Contemporary Movement	22 August 2000	Duster	13 December 2019	19 years, 3 months, 21 days
At the Gates	Slaughter of the Soul	14 November 1995	At War with Reality	28 October 2014	18 years, 11 months, 14 days
The Jesus and Mary Chain	Munki	2 June 1998	Damage and Joy	24 March 2017	18 years, 9 months, 22 days
Soft Cell	This Last Night in Sodom	March 1984	Cruelty Without Beauty	8 October 2002	18 years, 7 months
A Tribe Called Quest	The Love Movement	29 September 1998	We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service	11 November 2016	18 years, 1 month, 3 days
Arjen Anthony Lucassen	Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy	1994	Lost in the New Real	23 April 2012	18 years
Black Sabbath	Forbidden	20 June 1995	13	10 June 2013	17 years, 11 months, 21 days
Faith No More	Album of the Year	3 June 1997	Sol Invictus	19 May 2015	17 years, 11 months, 16 days
Wolfsbane	Wolfsbane	February 1994	Wolfsbane Save the World	9 January 2012	17 years, 11 months
The dB's	Paris Avenue	4 October 1994	Falling Off the Sky	12 June 2012	17 years, 8 months, 8 days
Survivor	Too Hot to Sleep	3 October 1988	Reach	25 April 2006	17 years, 6 months, 22 days
Alison Krauss	Forget About It	3 August 1999	Windy City	17 February 2017	17 years, 6 months, 14 days
Little Steven	Born Again Savage	30 November 1999	Soulfire	19 May 2017	17 years, 5 months, 19 days
Carcass	Swansong	10 June 1996	Surgical Steel	13 September 2013	17 years, 3 months, 3 days
The Monkees	Changes	June 1970	Pool It!	August 1987	17 years, 2 months
The Go-Go's	Talk Show	19 March 1984	God Bless the Go-Go's	15 May 2001	17 years, 1 month, 26 days
American Football	American Football	28 September 1999	American Football	21 October 2016	17 years, 23 days
Martha Davis	Policy	November 1987	...So the Story Goes	October 2004	16 years, 11 months
X-Ray Spex	Germfree Adolescents	10 November 1978	Conscious Consumer	28 September 1995	16 years, 10 months, 18 days
Kraftwerk	Electric Café	10 November 1986	Tour de France Soundtracks	4 August 2003	16 years, 8 months, 24 days
Refused	The Shape of Punk to Come	27 October 1998	Freedom	29 June 2015	16 years, 8 months, 2 days
At the Drive-In	Relationship of Command	12 September 2000	in•ter a•li•a	5 May 2017	16 years, 7 months, 23 days
Shed Seven	Truth Be Told	7 May 2001	Instant Pleasures	10 November 2017	16 years, 6 months, 3 days
Soundgarden	Down on the Upside	21 May 1996	King Animal	13 November 2012	16 years, 5 months, 23 days
Custard	Loverama	14 June 1999	Come Back, All Is Forgiven	6 November 2015	16 years, 4 months, 24 days
Flipper	American Grafishy	12 January 1993	Love	19 May 2009	16 years, 4 months, 7 days
Gang Starr	The Ownerz	24 June 2003	One of the Best Yet	1 November 2019	16 years, 4 months, 7 days [lower-alpha 1]
Brujeria	Brujerizmo	17 May 2000	Pocho Aztlan	16 September 2016	16 years, 3 months, 30 days
Terrorizer	World Downfall	13 November 1989	Darker Days Ahead	22 August 2006	16 years, 3 months, 9 days
Braid	Frame & Canvas	7 April 1998	No Coast	8 July 2014	16 years, 3 months, 1 day
Celtic Frost	Vanity/Nemesis	11 April 1990	Monotheist	29 May 2006	16 years, 1 month, 18 days
The Desert Sessions	Volumes 9 & 10	23 September 2003	Volumes 11 & 12	25 October 2019	16 years, 1 month, 2 days
Paulo Miklos	Vou Ser Feliz E Já Volto	2001	A Gente Mora no Agora	11 August 2017	16 years
Berlin	Count Three & Pray	13 October 1986	Voyeur	20 August 2002	15 years, 10 months, 7 days
Dr. Dre	2001	16 November 1999	Compton	7 August 2015	15 years, 8 months, 22 days
Leftfield	Rhythm and Stealth	20 September 1999	Alternative Light Source	8 June 2015	15 years, 8 months, 18 days
The Avalanches	Since I Left You	27 November 2000	Wildflower	1 July 2016	15 years, 7 months, 4 days
Björk	Björk	18 December 1977	Debut	5 July 1993	15 years, 6 months, 17 days
Glassjaw	Worship and Tribute	9 July 2002	Material Control	1 December 2017	15 years, 4 months, 22 days
St Germain	Tourist	30 May 2000	St Germain	9 October 2015	15 years, 4 months, 10 days
Don Henley	Inside Job	23 May 2000	Cass County	25 September 2015	15 years, 4 months, 2 days
The Poor	Who Cares	13 June 1994	Round 1	October 2009	15 years, 4 months
Cynic	Focus	14 September 1993	Traced in Air	17 November 2008	15 years, 2 months, 3 days
George Harrison	Cloud Nine	2 November 1987	Brainwashed	19 November 2002	15 years, 17 days
Guns N' Roses	"The Spaghetti Incident?"	23 November 1993	Chinese Democracy	23 November 2008	15 years
John Petrucci	Suspended Animation	2005	Terminal Velocity	2020[7]	15 years
The Bangles	Everything	18 October 1988	Doll Revolution	9 September 2003	14 years, 10 months, 22 days
D'Angelo	Voodoo	25 January 2000	Black Messiah (with The Vanguard)	15 December 2014	14 years, 10 months, 20 days
Shania Twain	Up!	19 November 2002	Now	29 September 2017	14 years, 10 months, 10 days
The Chameleons	Strange Times	1 September 1986	Why Call It Anything	1 July 2001	14 years, 10 months
Lita Ford	Black	14 February 1995	Wicked Wonderland	6 October 2009 (North America)	14 years, 7 months, 22 days
Lita Ford	Black	14 February 1995	Wicked Wonderland	2 October 2009 (Europe)	14 years, 7 months, 18 days
TLC	3D	12 November 2002	TLC	30 June 2017	14 years, 7 months, 18 days
Accept	Predator	15 January 1996	Blood of the Nations	20 August 2010	14 years, 7 months, 5 days
Rational Youth	Heredity	March 1985	To the Goddess Electricity	October 1999	14 years, 7 months
The Movielife	Forty Hour Train Back to Penn	25 February 2003	Cities in Search of a Heart	22 September 2017	14 years, 6 months, 28 days
Swans	Soundtracks for the Blind	22 October 1996	My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky	23 September 2010	13 years, 11 months, 1 day
Alice in Chains	Alice in Chains	7 November 1995	Black Gives Way to Blue	29 September 2009	13 years, 10 months, 22 days
Van Halen	Van Halen III	17 March 1998	A Different Kind of Truth	7 February 2012	13 years, 10 months, 21 days
Buzzcocks	A Different Kind of Tension	September 1979	Trade Test Transmissions	2 June 1993	13 years, 9 months
Stormtroopers of Death	Speak English or Die	30 August 1985	Bigger than the Devil	18 May 1999	13 years, 8 months, 19 days
Eyehategod	Confederacy of Ruined Lives	19 September 2000	Eyehategod	26 May 2014	13 years, 8 months, 17 days
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Street Survivors	17 October 1977	Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991	11 June 1991	13 years, 7 months, 25 days
A Perfect Circle	Emotive	1 November 2004	Eat the Elephant	20 April 2018	13 years, 5 months, 19 days
Tool	10,000 Days	2 May 2006	Fear Inoculum	30 August 2019	13 years, 3 months, 28 days
Ultrasound	Everything Picture	19 April 1999	Play for Today	24 September 2012	13 years, 5 months, 5 days
Motograter	Motograter	24 June 2003	Desolation	11 August 2017	13 years, 1 month, 18 days
The Zombies	New World	April 1991	As Far as I Can See...	5 May 2004	13 years, 1 month
Echobelly	Gravity Pulls	4 May 2004	Anarchy and Alchemy	26 May 2017	13 years, 22 days
Busted	A Present for Everyone	17 November 2003	Night Driver	25 November 2016	13 years, 8 days
Vixen	Live & Learn	6 November 2006 (US)	5th album to be titled	2020	13 years
Vixen	Live & Learn	30 January 2007 (UK/Europe)	5th album to be titled	2020	13 years
Garth Brooks	Scarecrow	13 November 2001	Man Against Machine	11 November 2014	12 years, 11 months, 29 days
Godflesh	Hymns	23 October 2001	A World Lit Only by Fire	7 October 2014	12 years, 11 months, 15 days
Peter Criss	Cat #1	16 August 1994	One for All	23 July 2007	12 years, 11 months, 7 days
Jane's Addiction	Ritual de lo Habitual	21 August 1990	Strays	22 July 2003	12 years, 11 months, 1 day
Aphex Twin	Drukqs	22 October 2001	Syro	22 September 2014	12 years, 11 months
Crazy Town	Darkhorse	12 November 2002	The Brimstone Sluggers	28 August 2015	12 years, 9 months, 16 days
98°	Revelation	26 September 2000	2.0	7 May 2013	12 years, 7 months, 11 days
Suicidal Tendencies	Free Your Soul and Save My Mind	12 September 2000	13	26 March 2013	12 years, 6 months, 14 days
Nuclear Assault	Something Wicked	23 February 1993	Third World Genocide	30 August 2005	12 years, 6 months, 7 days
Men Without Hats	Sideways	30 April 1991	No Hats Beyond This Point	4 November 2003	12 years, 6 months, 5 days
Descendents	Cool to Be You	23 March 2004	Hypercaffium Spazzinate	29 July 2016	12 years, 4 months, 16 days
Blind Melon	Soup	15 August 1995	For My Friends	22 April 2008	12 years, 4 months, 7 days
Kate Bush	The Red Shoes	2 November 1993	Aerial	7 November 2005	12 years, 5 days
Blur	Think Tank	5 May 2003	The Magic Whip	27 April 2015	11 years, 11 months, 22 days
De La Soul	The Grind Date	5 October 2004	And the Anonymous Nobody...	26 August 2016	11 years, 10 months, 21 days
Acceptance	Phantoms	26 April 2005	Colliding by Design	24 February 2017	11 years, 9 months, 29 days
Cher	Living Proof	26 February 2002 (U.S.)	Closer to the Truth	24 September 2013	11 years, 6 months, 29 days
Exodus	Force of Habit	17 August 1992	Tempo of the Damned	2 February 2004	11 years, 5 months, 16 days
Take That	Nobody Else	15 August 1995	Beautiful World	28 November 2006	11 years, 3 months, 13 days
Boston	Corporate America	5 November 2002	Life, Love & Hope	3 December 2013	11 years, 28 days
Whitesnake	Restless Heart	26 March 1997	Good to Be Bad	21 April 2008	11 years, 26 days
Kiss	Psycho Circus	22 September 1998	Sonic Boom	6 October 2009	11 years, 14 days
Fergie	The Dutchess	19 September 2006	Double Dutchess	22 September 2017	11 years, 3 days
The Lillingtons	The Too Late Show	10 October 2006	Stella Sapiente	13 October 2017	11 years, 3 days
Eloy	Ocean 2: The Answer	1998	Visionary	18 November 2009	11 years
The Wonder Stuff	Construction for the Modern Idiot	4 October 1993	Escape from Rubbish Island	September 2004	10 years, 11 months
Stars in Battledress	Secrets and Signals	6 October 2003	In Droplet Form	16 June 2014	10 years, 8 months, 10 days
Brendan Perry	Eye of the Hunter	4 October 1999	Ark	7 June 2010	10 years, 8 months, 3 days
Living Colour	Stain	2 March 1993	Collideøscope	7 October 2003	10 years, 7 months, 5 days
Portishead	Portishead	29 September 1997	Third	28 April 2008	10 years, 6 months, 30 days
Dodgy	Real Estate	23 July 2001	Stand Upright in a Cool Place	20 February 2012	10 years, 6 months, 28 days
Stevie Wonder	Conversation Peace	21 March 1995	A Time to Love	18 October 2005	10 years, 6 months, 27 days
Suede	A New Morning	30 September 2002	Bloodsports	18 March 2013	10 years, 5 months, 18 days
Hardline	Double Eclipse	28 April 1992	II	23 September 2002	10 years, 4 months, 26 days
Cast	Beetroot	30 July 2001	Troubled Times	2 November 2011	10 years, 3 months, 3 days
Burzum	Hliðskjálf	7 December 1999	Belus	8 March 2010	10 years, 3 months, 1 day
Bloodhound Gang	Hefty Fine	27 September 2005	Hard-Off	18 December 2015	10 years, 2 months, 21 days
Carole King	Love Makes the World	25 September 2001	A Holiday Carole	1 November 2011	10 years, 1 month, 7 days
Candlebox	Happy Pills	21 July 1998	Into the Sun	22 July 2008	10 years, 1 day

Notes

Posthumous album

References

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[note-7] Posthumous album

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