Credit: Tim TronckoeTwisted Sister will play what currently is its final scheduled U.S. concert ever this Saturday at Badlands Pawn in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The glam-metal legends also have one other gig on their itinerary, a November 12 performance at the Corona Northside Metal Meeting Fest in Monterey, Mexico, although frontman Dee Snider says “another show or two might pop up” before the end of the 2016.
Snider insists, however, that his group absolutely will be calling it quits after December 31.
“It’s not Ozzy [Osbourne‘s] No More Tours, people. This isn’t KISS, the 15-year farewell tour, or Scorpions, three-year farewell and we changed our mind,” Snider tells ABC Radio. “No, this is actually the end of Twisted Sister as you know it…[I] love the guys, love the band, proud of my legacy, but I am moving forward. I am moving on.”
To that end, Snider will be releasing a new solo album titled We Are the Ones on Friday, October 28. The singer will start promoting the project, which sees him exploring more alternative-rock sounds, in between his final commitments to Twisted Sister.
Snider also explains that he thinks this is a good time for Twisted Sister to retire, because the band is still pretty much at the top of its game.
“I’ve worked really hard, people, to hold it together. And I’m capable of thrashing and headbanging and doing all the crazy stuff I’ve always done,” the 61-year-old rocker maintains, “but I’m smart enough to know that nobody beats gravity. And I don’t want an audience to be watching when I have that Mike Tyson-crawling-around-on-all-fours-looking-for-his-mouthpiece moment…I want to leave an audience smiling and with a great memory, not a sad one.”
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