The Rolling Stones appear to have confirmed the title and canopy artwork for his or her upcoming studio album.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wooden every posted what seems to be one-third of an album cowl Saturday on their Instagram accounts. When pieced collectively, the trio’s faces appear to merge into one, like a greater model of the quilt to Metallica’s 2016 album Hardwired… to Self-Destruct.
You may see the person and (roughly) mixed items of the puzzle beneath.
Each bit of the puzzle options the band’s title and the phrases Overseas Tongues, apparently confirming the much-reported title of the album, and matching the phrases written on out of doors commercials that had been positioned around the globe (every that includes the band’s well-known lips and tongue brand) in varied languages on April 25.
On Friday, one other social media put up provided a snippet of what appears to be one other new Rolling Stones tune. The temporary clip begins with vocals harking back to the 1969 Stones tune “Gimme Shelter,” earlier than rapidly transferring to a guitar riff that sounds quite a bit like “Rock and a Exhausting Place” from 1989’s Metal Wheels.
Overseas Tongues can be the primary Rolling Stones album since 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, and their second for the reason that 2021 demise of drummer Charlie Watts.
Just like the well-received Diamonds, the brand new album was produced by Andrew Watt, who has additionally labored with Ozzy Osbourne, Elton John and Paul McCartney lately.
Instagram / Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wooden
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Whereas selling Diamonds in 2023, Mick Jagger revealed the band was already at work on what would turn out to be Overseas Tongues: “We have got nearly three-quarters by way of the subsequent one,” he informed the New York Instances.
“With Charlie leaving us, I feel we would have liked to make a brand new mark with [new drummer] Steve [Jordan]” added Keith Richards, dismissing any hypothesis that the band would finish their recording profession. In keeping with a 2026 report by the Instances, the band “already has no less than 10 songs within the bag” for yet one more album after Tongues.
The band started selling the album in early April with a collection of posters for a band named the Cockroaches, a moniker they’ve used previously for secret performances.
On April 11, extraordinarily restricted copies of a stand-alone Cockroaches single entitled “Tough and Twisted” had been offered at shops around the globe. Three days later, a social media put up from the Stones’ official pages appeared to substantiate it was really their tune.
In December 2026 an unnamed supply near the band reported that the Rolling Stones had canceled their unannounced plans for a 2026 tour. Their final present so far was July 21, 2024 on the conclusion of their Hackney Diamonds North American tour.
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