2020 in rock music

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

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Events

January

• The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards are held in the United States on January 26, 2020. Tool, I Prevail, and Rival Sons are all nominated for multiple Grammy Awards.[1] Tool wins a Grammy Award for their song “7empest”.[2] Other nominees include Candlemass (Sweden), The Cranberries (Ireland) and Bones UK (UK).
• Aerosmith received the MusiCares Person of the Year honor, an award given to musicians for artistic achievement and philanthropy in the music industry.[3]
• Ozzy Osbourne's single "Under the Graveyard" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart for six weeks, in a run that began in December 2019.[4][5]
• Bad Wolves single “Killing Me Slowly” tops the Mainstream Rock chart. Of the band's four singles releases at the time, it is the third to top the chart.[6]
• Shinedown's single “Attention Attention” tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for a single week. It is the bands fifteenth career song to top the chart, tying Three Days Grace for the band with the most number ones on the chart.[7]
• Breaking Benjamin releases their album Aurora, an album of acoustic and alternate takes of prior songs from their catalogue. Guest vocalist include Lacey Sturm previously of Flyleaf, Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace and Saint Asonia, and Spencer Chamberlain of Underoath.[8] The album was the third best-selling album on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart.[9]

February

• At the 2020 Brit Awards, held in London on February 18, there are live performances from Johnny Marr and Rod Stewart. Bruce Springsteen is among the nominees for International Male Solo Artist, and Foals win Best British Group.[10][11]
• Theory of a Deadman's single "History of Violence" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for a single week.[5]
• Green Day releases their thirteenth studio album, Father of All Motherfuckers (often shortened to Father of All...). The album tops the UK and Australian national, all-format album charts.[12][13] In the US, it debuts and peaks at number 4 on the US Billboard 200 chart.[14] The album will focuses on short, succinct songs, clocking in at only 26 minutes long. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong explained that the album title had no real meaning other than "just being a badass title".[15]
• Ozzy Osbourne releases his twelfth solo studio album Ordinary Man, his first solo album in ten years, and the highest-charting album of his solo career, entering the Billboard 200 at no 3 and selling 77,000 album equivalent units.[16] Osbourne quickly recorded the album after feeling inspiration from recording his guest vocals on the Post Malone and Travis Scott song "Take What You Want". It features performances from drummer Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), bassist Duff McKagen (Guns N' Roses), guitarist/producer Andrew Watt, as well as guest spots by Slash (Guns N' Roses), Post Malone, and Elton John.[17][18][19]
• Five Finger Death Punch's single "Inside Out" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for four nonconsecutive weeks.[5] The band also releases their eighth studio album F8, which enters the Billboard 200 chart at no 2 and sells 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.[20] 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.[21][22]
• Veteran UK glam rock band Slade sack their drummer Don Powell, who responds by announcing he will set up a rival group called "Don Powell's Slade".[23]

March

• 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. 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.[24]
• 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 Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.[25]
• The Glastonbury Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary on March 18. The festival, which was to have featured Manic Street Preachers and Sinead O'Connor, is cancelled because of restrictions imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[26] In its place, the BBC broadcasts a virtual festival including recorded highlights of previous years' festivals, including classic performances by The Rolling Stones, Patti Smith, Youssou N’Dour and David Bowie.[27]
• Welsh band Stereophonics are heavily criticized for not cancelling their concert in Cardiff, Wales, following the COVID-19 outbreak.[28]
• I Prevail single "Hurricane" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and stays there for two weeks.[29]
• Volbeat's single "Die to Live" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for a single week, the eighth of their singles to do so; as a result they tie with U2 for European band with most songs topping the chart.[30]
• Green Day's single "Oh Yeah!" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for a week.[31]
• 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 at the time.[32]

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.[33]
• 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 band's best-selling debut as well.[34]
• The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic continues the trend of musicians livestreaming performances, especially of cover songs:

• Rapper Post Malone livestreams and entire concert of sung Nirvana covers with Travis Barker of Blink 182 on drums.[35]
• Miley Cyrus, alongside Andrew Watt on guitar, performs an acoustic cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here" on a nationally televised segment on Saturday Night Live.[36]
• Chris Martin of Coldplay performs a solo cover of Bob Dylan's "Shelter from the Storm" on Saturday Night Live.[37]
• Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs a solo rendition of "Wake Me Up When September Ends" on the nationally televised One World Together at Home event.[38]

• After being forced to cancel their farewell tour by the COVID-19 pandemic, Swiss band Krokus announce plans to reschedule the dates for 2021.[39]
• The organizers of the French rock festival Hellfest, previously scheduled for June, tell fans that their insurance company, Albingia, has reneged on their contract and is refusing to pay for the cancellation of the 2020 festival,[40] because, Albingia claimed, "respiratory diseases were excluded from the contract".[41]
• Two weeks after its cancelled cinema release, Chunky Shrapnel, a concert film by Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, is digitally premièred on Vimeo on-demand.[42]

May

• Rammstein cancel their scheduled European tour (including Germany, Austria, Poland, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the UK) because of COVID-19 restrictions, with plans to reschedule the dates for 2021.[43]
• The Strokes release their sixth studio album, The New Abnormal, their first album in seven years. It debuts at number 8, selling 35,000 album equivalent units. It is their fifth album to land in the top 10 of the chart.[44]
• Hayley Williams, frontwoman of the band Paramore, releases her first solo studio album, Petals for Armor. The album tops the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart. This makes William the first female musician to top the chart both as a solo artist and as a band member, having also done so with Paramore's 2017 album After Laughter.[45]
• A cover of the Foo Fighters single "Times Like These", tops the UK all-format singles chart. The song is a benefit charity single related to COVID-19, and features a wide-variety of artists doing short vocal takes, including Chris Martin of Coldplay, Biffy Clyro, Dua Lipa, Hailee Steinfeld, and Dave Grohl himself.[46][47]

June

• Billboard Magazine introduces the Hot Hard Rock Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts, while renaming its Hot Rock Songs chart to Hot Rock & Alternative Songs as it broadens the chart's criteria to include more pop/electronic/R&B alternative songs. The Hot Hard Rock Songs chart will measure the success of "guitar-based rock songs with a heavier edge" using the Hot 100 methodology of streaming, sales, and overall radio airplay in the United States.[48]
• Bad Wolves' single "Sober" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock songs chart and stays there for two weeks.[49]
• Five Finger Death Punch single "A Little Bit Off" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock songs chart.[50]
• After previously postponing their North American Fear Inoculum tour, Tool decides to cancel the tour outright, citing the desire to give money back to ticket buyers rather than hold on to their money until 2021 to reschedule, due to economic hardship caused by the coronavirus.[51]
• Liam Gallagher releases a MTV Unplugged live solo album, which tops the UK all-format albums chart for a week.[52]

July

• Bring Me the Horizon's single “Parasite Eve tops the UK Rock & Metal singles chart for a week.[53] It additionally tops the Billboard Hot Hard Rock chart in its first full week of tracking.[54]
• 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.[55][56][57]
• Mongolian band The Hu top the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart with the deluxe edition re-release of their 2019 debut album The Gereg,[58] newly released with guest vocals by Jacoby Shaddix, From Ashes to New, and Lzzy Hale.[59]

August

• Linkin Park announced a 20th anniversary release of their debut studio album Hybrid Theory, and release the previously unreleased song from the 1999 recording sessions for it, "She Couldn't".[60]

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.[61]
• 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.[62]
• 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.[63]
• 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".[64][65]
• 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.[66] The album was mostly complete in early 2020, but its release date was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.[67]
• 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.[68]
• 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.[69]
• 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.[70] Frontwoman Amy Lee conversely describes the new album as "heavy and dark" and similar to the sound of their second album, The Open Door.[71]
• 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".[72]
• Chevelle is scheduled to release their ninth studio album. Frontman Pete Loeffler describes the album as more melodic than past few albums.[73]
• 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.[74]
• 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.[75]
• 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.[76][77]
• 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.[78]
• 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.[79]
• Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails announces intentions to release collaborative new music.[80]

Deaths

• Bo Winberg, former drummer of The Spotnicks, died on January 3, 2020 at the age of 80.[81]
• Neil Peart, drummer of Rush, died on January 7, 2020 at the age of 67 from brain cancer.[82]
• Saskia Post, Australian actress and co-star of the 1980s punk film Dogs in Space, died on March 16, 2020, aged 59, of a cardiac arrest.[83]
• Drummer Bill Rieflin, best known for his work with King Crimson, Ministry, and R.E.M. died at the age of 59 on March 24, 2020 following a battle with cancer.[84]
• Adam Schlesinger, co-founder, bassist, and songwriter, of Fountains of Wayne ("Stacy's Mom"), died at the age of 52 on April 1, 2020 due to COVID-19 related complications.[85]
• Brian Howe, former singer of the band Bad Company, died on May 6, 2020 at 66.[86]
• Little Richard, one of the pioneers of rock and roll, died on May 9, 2020 at 87.[87]
• Charlie Monttana, Mexican rock urbano singer, died on May 28, 2020, aged 58, of a heart attack.[88]
• Paul Chapman, 66, Welsh rock guitarist (UFO, Lone Star), died on June 9, 2020, aged 66.[89]
• Yuji "You" Adachi, guitarist and composer of Dead End, died from sepsis on June 16, 2020 at the age of 56.[90]
• Graeme Williamson, Scottish rock singer, died of a stroke on June 25, 2020, aged 71.[91]
• Ken Chinn, punk rock vocalist (SNFU) died on July 16, 2020, aged 57.[92]
• Dominic Sonic, French singer, died on July 23, 2020, aged 55.[93]
• Peter Green, co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, dies on July 25, at the age of 73.[94]

Band breakups

• Stone Sour[95]
• Red Sun Rising[96]

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