Twisted Sister is going back to work, and the job site is an Alaska state fairground. Dee Snider confirmed on his own Instagram that the band behind “We’re Not Gonna Take It” is marking its 50th anniversary with a reunion tour, and the first booked date lands at the Alaska State Fair on September 4, 2026, according to the Anchorage Daily News. It’s the group’s first American shows in close to a decade, which for a band built on studs, spandex, and face paint counts as a genuine event.

A Wasilla Stage for a Long Island Band

Twisted Sister formed on Long Island in the mid-1970s, clawed its way up through the bar-band circuit for nearly a decade, then broke wide with 1984’s “Stay Hungry” and its two inescapable anthems. Booking the comeback in Wasilla rather than Madison Square Garden feels almost defiantly on brand for a band that has never chased the obvious move. Local coverage notes the fair slot puts Twisted Sister alongside a lineup built for a summer crowd that wants spectacle, not subtlety, and few 1980s acts delivered spectacle quite like a six-foot-plus Snider in full war paint screaming at a camera.

Sebastian Bach Steps to the Mic

The reunion comes with a twist, though. Reporting from Pollstar confirms that former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach will handle lead vocals on these new dates, putting a different snarl behind songs that have belonged to Snider’s voice for four decades. Pairing two of hard rock’s loudest personalities under one banner is the kind of casting choice that either fizzles or becomes the story of the summer, and early chatter among fans leans hard toward the latter.

Snider, now in his early seventies, has spent recent years busier as a solo artist, actor, and podcast fixture than as a full-time touring rocker, so handing the microphone to Bach lets the Twisted Sister machine run again without demanding Snider carry every night himself. Parade reports additional dates are expected to roll out following the Alaska announcement, which suggests Wasilla is an opening shot rather than a one-off novelty booking.

Why This Lands With More Than Metalheads

Twisted Sister’s catalog crossed from arena rock into pure cultural shorthand decades ago. “We’re Not Gonna Take It” shows up at graduations, protests, and sporting events with a regularity most Grammy winners never achieve, and that staying power is exactly why a single fairground date is already generating national headlines instead of a regional blurb. Fifty years after a scrappy Long Island bar band decided spandex and eyeliner belonged on men twice the size of most linebackers, the joke has aged into a legacy. Alaska just gets to host the first chapter of its next act.