Sebastian Bach, the former Skid Row frontman, is fronting Twisted Sister on the road this year after founding singer Dee Snider stepped down for health reasons — a lineup swap landing squarely in the band’s 50th-anniversary year.

Key Points

• Dee Snider resigned from Twisted Sister on Feb. 5, 2026, citing degenerative arthritis and heart concerns
• Sebastian Bach, the former Skid Row singer, is fronting the band for a run of fall 2026 shows
• Feb. 7, 2026 marked 50 years since Snider’s original 1976 audition for the band
• Bach announced the news himself on his own Instagram, calling it a full-circle moment
• Confirmed dates run from an Alaska state fair to two stops in Ontario, Canada

Snider, 70, announced his exit citing degenerative arthritis and recent heart concerns, saying he would rather step away from the band than perform as a diminished version of his old self, according to Blabbermouth’s report on the resignation. The exit landed just two days before the 50th anniversary of Snider’s original 1976 audition for the band, the same report notes.

The timing forced Twisted Sister to scrap the full 50th-anniversary reunion tour it had announced back in September 2025, according to Rolling Stone Australia’s coverage of the cancellation. Rather than shelve the anniversary outright, guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda recruited Bach — whose glass-shattering wail carried Skid Row through hits like “18 and Life” and “I Remember You” in the late 1980s — to front a scaled-back run of dates.

Bach’s Own Words

Bach broke the news himself, posting the first photo of himself as Twisted Sister’s new frontman to his own Instagram account. “I am the Lead Singer of Twisted Sister,” he wrote, adding that the moment was “a long way from me painting the TS logo on the back of my jean jacket in high school in liquid paper to fronting the band,” according to the post reported by Parade. He called himself “in shock” in the same caption.

Confirmed dates so far, per Loudwire’s tour listing, include the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on Sept. 4, the Choctaw Grand Theatre in Durant, Oklahoma on Sept. 12, and back-to-back Ontario, Canada shows in Niagara Falls and Windsor on Oct. 8 and Oct. 10. General ticket sales opened following an April 7 announcement, with a presale window that used the code “TWISTED2026.”

Bach isn’t a total newcomer to Twisted Sister’s orbit — the two frontmen have swapped public praise for years, and Snider had floated the idea of a fill-in singer to Bach once before, only for Bach to pass, per the same Blabbermouth report. This time, with the band’s golden anniversary on the line, he said yes, giving Twisted Sister’s 50th year a genuinely unexpected final chapter.