Twisted Sister has added three new fall 2026 dates featuring ex-Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach on lead vocals, bringing the total number of announced shows to nine. The new additions are Oct. 18 at Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana in Gary, Indiana; Nov. 14 at The Event Center at Hollywood Casino in Charles Town, West Virginia; and Dec. 11 at Ferg’s Pavilion in St. Petersburg, Florida. Tickets go on sale to the general public June 26; presales begin June 24 at 10 a.m. local time with the code “TWISTED2026.”
Bach addressed his love for Twisted Sister in a March 2026 interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF, describing himself as one of the band’s most devoted S.M.F.s (translated via Blabbermouth): “I am a fan of Twisted Sister. And I’ll tell you right now, I’m probably a bigger fan of Twisted Sister than anybody watching this. I love that band. I love the album ‘You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll’ with songs like ‘The Kids Are Back’, ‘Ride to Live, Live to Ride.’ I love ‘Shoot ‘Em Down’, ‘Destroyer’, ‘Tear It Loose’. When they were a club band, they would come out there like a punk rock band or a total thrash metal band. I mean, if you listen to their version of ‘It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It)’ by the Rolling Stones, it’s like a speed metal tempo. Well, that’s the kind of energy that I’m gonna bring.”
Bach was emphatic that his commitment to his own catalog won’t change: “I’ll never stop singing ‘18 and Life’, ‘I Remember You’, ‘Youth Gone Wild’, ‘Monkey Business’, ‘Slave to the Grind’ — I’ll never stop doing that. So I’m not stopping my solo band. I’m continuing my solo band, but I’m doing shows with Twisted Sister that are bigger than my solo band. So it’s a step up for me. I’ll have a nicer dressing room and stuff. You cannot even challenge me on whether I love the music. I really do love the music. You can’t fake love — and I love Twisted Sister.”
On the March 3, 2026 edition of SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, Bach described the emotional phone call he had with Dee Snider before agreeing to take the role. Snider, who stepped down from Twisted Sister’s 2026 shows due to arthritis and bone-on-bone knee deterioration — his doctor telling him the jumping and movement required on stage was no longer medically advisable — personally blessed his replacement. “I called him and he goes, ‘S.M.F. Number Two.’ He’s always called me that,” Bach said. “And I go, ‘Well, I guess I really am S.M.F. Number Two.’ And then I asked him, what did the doctor say? He says that he has arthritis, that his knees are going out, he has bone on bone. The doctor said that he should not be jumping around. And he goes, ‘Well, that’s not an option’ — because he wants to do the full show moving around, and the doctor said, ‘You can’t do it.’ So he said, ‘You have my full blessing.’ He goes, ‘I love you.’ I told him I loved him, and we were both kind of getting teary eyed.” Bach said Snider may even join the band onstage for select dates: “I asked him, ‘Hey, you wanna come out and jam with us?’ He goes, ‘Yeah.’”
Twisted Sister co-founder Jay Jay French — also speaking on Trunk Nation — put Bach’s role in historical perspective: “In the 53-year history of the band, we’ve had 20 people who’ve been in and out of Twisted Sister. They said Steve Perry could never be replaced in Journey. And he was. That Freddie Mercury could never be replaced [in Queen]. And he was. And guess what? Baz is gonna be an unbelievable replacement.” French confirmed the full lineup: Bach on vocals alongside French and guitarist Eddie Ojeda, Russell Pzütto on bass (a longtime member of Snider’s solo touring band, filling in for Mark “The Animal” Mendoza), and Joey Cassata — who played drums on Ace Frehley’s final original solo album, 10,000 Volts — on drums, replacing Joe Franco, who is unavailable for the fall dates.
The full run of announced 2026 dates:
- Sept. 4 — Palmer, AK — Borealis Theatre
- Sept. 6 — Salem, OR — The Pavilion at the Oregon State Fairgrounds
- Sept. 12 — Durant, OK — Choctaw Grand Theater
- Sept. 27 — Puyallup, WA — Washington State Fair
- Oct. 8 — Niagara Falls, ON — OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino
- Oct. 10 — Windsor, ON — The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor
- Oct. 18 — Gary, IN — Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana
- Nov. 14 — Charles Town, WV — The Event Center at Hollywood Casino
- Dec. 11 — St. Petersburg, FL — Ferg’s Pavilion
