Few bands can continue to make great music for decades. They cannot all be Depeche Mode, after all. Many times, iconic rock bands will stop making new albums, but keep on touring. Fans still get the hear the hits without any kind of new-song nonsense.
Well, you can throw all that out when it comes to Styx, it seems. According to Ultimate Classic Rock, guitarist Tommy Shaw said the band is putting the finishing touches on a new LP. In fact, the band has so many songs that maybe there is a chance the band could put out two albums of new material.
Shaw says the new record will be a "great rock album," but what else is he going to say? No musical artist, unless they have some weird reason otherwise, is going to say the next record is going to be terrible. No one would buy it. Heck, no one might buy the new Styx LP anyway because hardly anyone bought the band's 2021 album, Crash of the Crown (it peaked at number 114 on the Billboard album charts), and that record was pretty decent.
Tommy Shaw says a new Styx album is on the horizon
Styx has been busy, though. They seem to never stop touring, even though they will likely never be as good as they were when Dennis DeYoung was the vocalist, and they have announced new dates in 2025. The band will tour with REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin. The tour is called the Brotherhood of Rock and will run from May 28 to August 24. That is plenty of time to catch a show, surely.
Shaw says the new album will be full of songs based on personal experiences. That would imply that no "Mr. Roboto"s will appear on the record. Not that Shaw would ever allow that mess to happen again to the band.
One might still hope that the group can produce loud and anthemic music, though. Even if we can assume that the band is not going to chart high, that does not mean the music is bad. Maybe it just means we cherish something that the rest of the world should as well.