Twisted Sister have managed to salvage their 2026 reunion tour after it was axed due to Dee Snider’s health issues, and recently revealed the new vocalist who will be filling in for the frontman.
The band took to social media earlier this month to confirm that former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach is set to take over Snider’s duties for the upcoming tour, which marks their 50th anniversary and first reunion in ten years, following their retirement from touring in 2016.
Taking to Instagram, the band told fans: “Twisted Sister members Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda are thrilled to announce that iconic vocalist and frontman Sebastian Bach will be fronting the band for a handful of select dates this fall.”
With Bach currently in the midst of his own solo tour of the US, the post clarified that “these appearances do not affect or conflict with Sebastian’s current or future solo touring schedule, which remains fully intact”.
It comes after Twisted Sister were forced to announce that they’d be cancelling their planned tour with Snider at the helm, as they revealed the frontman had been suffering from degenerative arthritis for several years.
Snider has since come out and insisted that he is not on his “deathbed”. The singer, now aged 70, shared a statement confirming that he would be leaving the line-up with immediate effect due to a “series of challenges”.
The glam-rock icons also took to their official website to share more insight into the struggles facing Snider, which includes degenerative arthritis, that has in the past led to him undergoing multiple procedures.
More recently, he gave a further update on his House of Hair radio show, saying: “I’m not dying! No, not never; I mean, we’re all dying, but not immediately.
“My announcement about cancelling the tour for health reasons, problems with my heart, arthritis, things like that… the rumours have run wild that I’m on my death bed, I am not. I just can’t do those things that I did in my 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and even 60s. Alright? Otherwise I’m alive and well. I’m enjoying life.”
Snider added that he’ll continue to host his radio show, write, and direct but he won’t be hitting the road anytime soon.
The band retired from touring in 2016, but announced that they’d be returning for a world tour last September. They first hinted at it on social media, with the frontman teasing something for their upcoming 50th anniversary.
The tour included a headline slot at the Steelhouse Festival between July 24-26 in 2026 at Hafod-y-Dafal Farm, Aberbeeg, Ebbw Vale, which would have been their first stop in the UK since they performed at Bloodstock in 2016.
