2022 in rock music

This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2022.

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Notable events

January

February

March
  • Swedish band Ghost release their fifth studio album, Impera. First started in 2020, the album's creation spanned 2 years as the band waited out the 2020 US Presidential Election season and some rougher parts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latter inspired frontman Tobias Forge to revisit and complete an album idea he has had since 2014, about "the rise and fall of empires". The album debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, moving 70,000 album equivalent units. The debut is the band best of their career in both chart position and units moved. It is the highest charting hard rock album since 2020's Power Up album by AC/DC, and the best selling hard rock album in over a year, since 2021's Medicine at Midnight album by the Foo Fighters. As of its March release, Impera was also the highest pure sales of 2022 of any album genre.[24][25][26]
  • Feeder releases their eleventh studio album, Torpedo. Described as "heavier but still melodic", the album is themed around the band's frustrations of not being able to perform live due to COVID 19 restrictions.[27] It debuts at number 5 on the UK all-format Official Chart Company albums chart, their tenth album to place in the top ten of the chart.[28]
  • Machine Gun Kelly releases his sixth studio album, and second one of the rock genre. Originally announced as Born with Horns, it was later retitled to Mainstream Sellout. It tops the all-format US Billboard 200 albums chart upon release, moving 93,000 album equivalent units. It is the first rock album in over a year to top the chart, with the last ones being AC/DC and Kelly's own Tickets to My Downfall in 2020.[29][30][31][32] Despite the success, Kelly announces he is returning to rap music for his future releases.[33]
  • Kid Rock's twelfth studio album, Bad Reputation, fails to debut in the top 200 songs of the Billboard 200 upon its release. His prior seven albums had all debuted in the top 10 of the chart. His turn towards politics was cited as a possible reason for the steep decline since prior albums.[34]
  • After its appearance in the March 2022 film The Batman, Nirvana's 1991 song "Something in the Way" appears on the Billboard Hot 100 all-format song chart at number 46. It is the first song of the band's to appear on the chart in 20 years, since 2002's "You Know You're Right", and the first time the song had ever appeared on the chart, with it never having been released as a single in the past.[35]

April

Future releases
  • Coheed and Cambria is scheduled to release their tenth studio album, Vaxis - Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind in May 2022. The album will continue the story of their long running series of concept albums, though frontman Claudio Sanchez notes that parts of the story are still in flux, as some plot points have felt insensitive in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.[44]
  • Guitarist of A Perfect Circle, Billy Howerdel, is scheduled the release his second solo studio album, What Normal Was, in June 2022. The album is his first in 14 years, when he released Keep Telling Myself Its Alright in 2008 under the moniker Ashes Divide.[45][46]
  • British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree reformed in 2021 and is scheduled to release their eleventh studio album, Closure/Continuation, in June 2022. It is the band's first release in 13 years, after being in a hiatus for over a decade while frontman Steven Wilson explored a solo career and other projects. Due to the COVID pandemic resulting in the suspension of said projects, the band reunited to complete the album.[47][48]
  • Shinedown was planning on releasing their seventh studio album in late 2021.[49] The album, Planet Zero, was later delayed to April 2022, and then again to July.[50]
  • Jack White is scheduled to release two studio albums in 2022, his fourth solo studio album, Fear of the Dawn, on 8 April 2022, and his fifth solo studio album, Entering Heaven Alive on 22 July 2022.[40]
  • Blink-182 is scheduled to release their ninth studio album. Originally starting as bonus material for a deluxe release of their prior album, Nine, it was later separated out as a separate release due to its differing sound and content. Initially scheduled for a 2020 and 2021 release, drummer Travis Barker noted that it was likely relegated 2022 due to Barker's commitment to other projects and bassist's Mark Hoppus's cancer diagnosis in 2021.[51]
  • Staind is scheduled to release their eighth studio album, their first new album in over a decade. Frontman Aaron Lewis, who spent much of the 2010s starting a country music career, expects the album to be a departure from his and the band's more mellow material, return to the band's "heavier" and "brutal" roots.[52][53]
  • Godsmack is scheduled to release their eighth studio album. Originally scheduled for 2021, the band instead decided to spend much of the year building their own studio and instead aiming to release a new album in 2022.[54]
  • Alter Bridge is scheduled to record and release their seventh studio album while many of the members spent 2021 working on their respective solo projects.[55]
  • Slipknot - is scheduled to release their seventh studio album in mid-2022. It is described by frontman Corey Taylor as a heavier version of their melodic album Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses.[56]
  • In addition to Slipknot's seventh studio album, a separate album from some band members is also scheduled for release. The album, Look Outside Your Window, was recorded by four of the band's member's in 2008 during the band's lengthy All Hope Is Gone sessions. It's not planned on being a traditional Slipknot album due to its more experimental and melodic rock sound.[57]
  • Weezer - after releasing two full albums over the course of 2021 (OK Human and Van Weezer), frontman Rivers Cuomo announced the band would release four full albums over the course of 2022. The concept, under the conceptual Seasons moniker, see the band release a new studio album on the first day of each season. Cuomo describes the "Spring" album as "Happy chill", a dance rock album themed sonically themed around the work of The Strokes in the fall, and a sadder Elliott Smith styled album in the winter. Cuomo later confirmed that each album will be released on the day of starting each respective season.[58][59]
  • Five Finger Death Punch is scheduled to release 2 albums in 2022, an album of newly recorded studio material (their ninth), and a re-recording of their debut studio album, The Way of the Fist (2007).
  • Halestorm is scheduled to release their fifth studio album. The album was written as a way to motivate the band to continue moving forward through the uncertainty of the COVID 19 pandemic, much in the same way that their early work motivated them to work on breaking into the mainstream.[60]
  • Avenged Sevenfold plans on releasing their eighth studio album. The band worked on recording it across 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic complicated and slowed down plans, for example, making it impossible to work with an orchestra for string arrangements.[61] The album is scheduled to release prior to a mid-2022 tour.[62] The band later reiterated plans for an album and touring in 2022.[63]
  • 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".[64] The band reported they were deep into the recording process in the second half of 2021.[65]
  • Frontman Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins announced that he would be releasing a third double album in what he called a trilogy of double albums, including Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1996) and Machina/The Machines of God (2000), in 2021, despite releasing a separate double album, Cyr, in November 2020.[66] Work on the album was about half done as of July 2021.[67]
  • Fozzy was originally scheduled to release their fourth studio album in 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic delayed plans into 2021. The delay also required the band to rename the album, as it has been scheduled to be titled 2020, which frontman Chris Jericho felt no longer made sense with the new release year.[68] It was later delayed to April 2022 and renamed Boombox.[69]
  • Jane's Addiction has announced their intention to release their first new material in a decade, though frontman Perry Farrell notes that it's unlikely to be a full album.[70]
  • Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails announced his intentions to record and release collaborative new music in 2020.[71] However, the COVID-19 pandemic complicated those plans, causing Reznor to instead release two more iterations of his instrumental Ghost releases, Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts, cancel a major tour in 2020, and alter plans for new music and touring for 2022.[72][73][74]
  • Pearl Jam has begun working on their twelfth studio album, working with music producer Andrew Watt.[75]

Major tours and concerts

Deaths

Band breakups

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