In a brand new interview with “The Neil Jones Rock Present” on TotalRock, W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless spoke about his well being, greater than two years after he suffered intensive again accidents throughout the European leg of the band’s Fortieth-anniversary tour. Requested how his well being is now, usually talking, Blackie responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It is advantageous. What occurred after we performed the Roundhouse [in London in March 2023], I used to be beginning to cramp in my decrease again and my left leg. And it is a lengthy story, however it was all from that break that I had had — that break in my proper leg goes again 12 years now. And it was a residual harm that I had from then, and we needed to get that sorted out. However what occurred after we performed the Roundhouse just a few days later, we acquired all the way down to Spain and I had a health care provider, a chiropractor, engaged on me, and he ruptured a disc in my again. And he screwed me up actually, actually dangerous. And I ended up, one of many vertebras broke after that, and it was only a domino impact, however it was all ‘explanation for that physician. However I am good now. Every thing’s advantageous. We’re again up to the mark and able to do what we do.”
Requested about the opportunity of W.A.S.P. engaged on new music within the not-too-distant future, Blackie mentioned: “Nicely, we have been engaged on new materials for some time, however when this example occurred and that physician wrecked me a few years in the past, that put all the pieces on maintain for some time. However we’re nonetheless engaged on the concept [of making a new album], however fairly actually, for the final 12 months, we have been fairly busy doing what we have been doing touring, and this subsequent 12 months is gonna be the identical. So ask me that query in a 12 months once I can come up for air for 5 minutes and I am going to provide you with a greater reply.”
Again in August 2023, Lawless underwent a profitable surgical procedure to deal with two herniated discs and a damaged vertebra.
Due to the intensive again accidents Blackie suffered throughout the European leg of W.A.S.P.‘s Fortieth-anniversary tour, the band’s 2023 U.S. tour was canceled.
Throughout a Could 2023 look on SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Lawless mentioned that the accidents he suffered throughout the European tour that 12 months had been “a direct reflection of what occurred” along with his proper “femur being damaged” again in 2013. “As a result of I wore a raise for 9 years, and are available to search out out I didn’t want that raise,” he mentioned. “And that was solely decided [in the] summer time [of 2022], so the raise was taken out. However the backbone had adjusted to me strolling with that raise. And once we took it out, then that is when the issues began. And it really began in the beginning of the [2022] U.S. tour. And I used to be in a position to get by means of the U.S. tour okay, and we thought it had settled into place, however once we acquired to Europe, we rapidly found, about two weeks into the tour, that was not the case. And what was taking place is that the vertebrae had been compressing a few of the disks. I ended up rupturing a disk, after which that begins leaking out a gelatin that then wraps itself across the nerves popping out of the spinal twine. And that then creates this factor referred to as nerve ache. And I do not know if individuals perceive what that’s, as a result of I had heard of it however I had by no means skilled it earlier than. And it’s ache that you just can’t think about. It’s not like something you have ever skilled earlier than.”
W.A.S.P.‘s newest launch was “ReIdolized (The Soundtrack To The Crimson Idol)”, which got here out in February 2018. It was a brand new model of the band’s basic 1992 album “The Crimson Idol”, which was re-recorded to accompany the film of the identical title to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the unique LP’s launch. The re-recorded model additionally options 4 songs lacking from the unique album.
Greater than a 12 months in the past, Blackie spoke in regards to the progress of the songwriting periods for W.A.S.P.‘s 2015 album “Golgotha” in an interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station. He mentioned: “We nonetheless are [working on it]. What occurred was once we got here again from the European tour, I needed to have surgical procedure and stuff, a couple of 12 months previous to that, we had been engaged on plenty of new stuff. And once I got here again, I’ve had a very long time to undergo these early demos, of what we’ve got been engaged on. Listening to it with contemporary ears, a few of it is actually good, however there’s not sufficient of it but the place I’d be comfy in saying, ‘Okay, that is completed, and let’s go together with it.’ I might like to return and go to the drafting board, so to talk, and see what else is there. As a result of even from a two-year interval of once we began engaged on that earlier than to the place we’re proper now, you are gonna achieve a lot, you are gonna develop a lot.”
Blackie continued: “I’ve discovered you do not make data or I do not make data anymore which are unfold out over a two- or three-year interval, as a result of the man you might be if you first begin making it isn’t the man you might be if you end making it. Get in, six months prime to backside, get that factor cranked out, as a result of, like I mentioned, if you happen to do not, you find yourself operating the chance of it type of being a schizophrenic kind of document the place you have acquired one kind of 1 factor after which the opposite half is one thing else and it has no actual cohesiveness.”
2024 marked the Fortieth anniversary of the discharge of W.A.S.P.‘s first album. To have a good time this basic metallic album, W.A.S.P., for the primary time in 40 years, performed all the album from prime to backside, begin to end, on a fall 2024 North American tour, dubbed “Album ONE Alive”.
Along with Lawless, W.A.S.P.‘s present lineup contains bassist Mike Duda, lead guitarist Doug Blair and drummer Aquiles Priester.
