In recent years, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider released two critically-acclaimed solo albums, “For The Love Of Metal” and “Leave A Scar.” The albums were produced and co-written with Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta, and according to Snider “put an exclamation point on the end of my career.”
In a recent interview with RockPages, Snider commented on the future of his solo career, and it appears he’s calling it a career.
“Don’t hold your breath, because I’m feeling like I’m done,” The 68-year-old Snider said. “Now I said that after ‘For The Love Of Metal,’ and then C*VID hit and I called Jamey Jasta up and Jamey Jasta said, ‘I wanna do another record.’ But right now, I’m feeling very comfortable with who I am, what I am, what I’m doing, and how I’m spending my life. I’m not feeling this urge. And it helps that those last two albums, ‘For The Love Of Metal’ and ‘Leave A Scar,’ and then the live record ‘For The Love Of Metal Live!,’ really, I feel, put an exclamation point on the end of my career.”
As he mentioned, Snider has said he was done before, but he’s always made the point that he doesn’t want to overstay his welcome. That’s why Twisted Sister stopped touring, and it appears that’s why he’s done with solo work as well.
“I think, thanks to Jamey Jasta encouraging me to get back to true metal, real metal and what I’m really about,” he added. “My last two records are very powerful, the performances are there, everything’s there and as a legacy, I like seeing those albums at the end of my recording career.”
“I’m always very honest, even to the point where I get in trouble with other bands for being too honest, but I’ve also listened to people being honest about me. The end of Twisted Sister, as much fun as it was and whatever, but our last record is a Christmas record. And it was fun, and I’m not ashamed of it — I loved it. But then I went and left Twisted and I did a solo album. Someone challenged me to do a mainstream rock record, ‘We Are The Ones,’ and it’s a good record, but it wasn’t really Dee Snider.”
“It was an attempt to do something more mainstream. So, it could have ended with those records and I would have felt that that was really not the way I’d like to go out. It’s because of For The Love Of Metal and Leave A Scar that I feel good about walking away and saying, ‘Yeah. Take that. That’s Dee Snider. Remember that. I was 65 years old or whatever. That’s Dee Snider. And good night.’ So those records are very important to me.”
The entire interview can be viewed below.
