Candlebox frontman Kevin Martin says the band is writing a new full-length album and will keep playing live. He had planned to quit touring. Martin shared the news in a recent interview as reported by Sonic Perspectives.
More than three years ago, the band announced a farewell tour and a last album, The Long Goodbye. Martin figured he would stop after the 3 Doors Down tour. Then Gavin Rossdale of Bush and Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains asked Candlebox to join a shared tour.
Original guitarist Peter Klett returned during that run and sat in for a few shows. That changed Martin’s mind.
“And then, of course, [original Candlebox guitarist Peter Klett] comes back midway through that and starts filling in for some shows, and we start talking about music and we start jamming, and I’m, like, ‘There’s no way I’m getting away from this.’ So, yeah, you guys are still stuck with me. I’m still here,” Martin said.
Klett’s return brought new songs. The band put out the independent single “I Remember Everything” in September. Kemble Walters produced the track at Good Noise Studio, and Jeremy Costa mastered it at Backward Clock Sound Studio.
It is the first Candlebox song to pair Klett’s guitar with Martin’s writing since the 2012 album Love Stories & Other Musings. A second single, “Still Running,” should arrive in December. Fans will have to wait until 2027 for the full album.
Candlebox started in Seattle in 1991. The band broke through in 1993 with its self-titled debut. That album went quadruple-platinum and has sold more than four million copies worldwide.
The band’s studio albums include Lucy in 1995, Happy Pills in 1998, Into The Sun in 2008, Love Stories & Other Musings in 2012, Disappearing In Airports in 2016, Wolves in 2021, and The Long Goodbye in 2023.
