Tommy Shaw Confirms a New Styx Album Is on the Way

Tommy Shaw has confirmed that Styx is “working on a new album.”

During a conversation with UCR’s Matt Wardlaw, the rocker explained how the band has fit in songwriting around their busy touring commitments.

“I guess we just stumbled upon a way of doing it. Just writing, you don’t have to write the whole thing at one time,” Shaw explained. “Like Will (Evankovich, Styx’s producer)l and I, we’ve been writing songs together for you know for 10, 15 years. And when we get one that we like, Will’s a lot more organized than I am, but he’ll put it on a hard drive. And so we had amassed a whole bunch of songs.”

By revisiting those song ideas, along with a recent run of new inspiration, Styx found an album coming together.

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“Suddenly we got hot writing new stuff. And then we went back and looked at some other things and said these things all it all goes together,” Shaw explained. “Now we’re working on [the album] and finishing it. And it’s exciting.”

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Styx’s last album, Crash of the Crown, was released in 2021.

Shaw described the upcoming LP as “a great rock album,” while also revealing that one of the tunes, tentatively titled “Blue-Eyed Raven,” is a folky “Boat on the River” kind of song. Overall, the rocker noted that “real-life experiences” influenced many of the new tracks.

“You’re writing about your experiences in your life and things that you love and enjoy, or things that were hard to go through and that sort of thing,” he explained. “So you’re just really just writing a book in little sections like that. And we’ve got a pretty good one going here.”

In fact, Shaw revealed, Styx’s recent songwriting has been so prolific, they suddenly have a happy problem.

“We have too many songs and we’re writing more,” the rocker declared. “So, it’s nice that it goes on, for sure.”

Styx will hit the road with Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon for a run of tour dates in summer 2025. Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder will also join the trek as a special guest.