Sleaze Roxx has issued a new interview with W.A.S.P.'s Blackie Lawless. The following is an excerpt:

Q: What do you think has been the key to W.A.S.P.'s longevity?

A: "A lot of vitamins and steroids!"

Q: For real?!

A: (Laughing) "Yeah! Yeah I've been watching this whole Mark McGwire thing and I've thinking to myself if people only knew the truth. There's a lot more of that that goes on than you might think."

Q: Would it be fair to say that after The Headless Children W.A.S.P. has been more or less been the Blackie Lawless show? Are you comfortable with that?

A: "Well there was period of time during the period of time that you're talking about... let's just say that a lot of it had fallen on my shoulders. If you look at what we've done for the last few years now, this band has been together for about six years now; the records that we've made are far, far and away much more of a group effort than anything I've done in the past. I'll go on record to say that it also includes from day one and all the early records too. The guys that are in this band now are far superior musicians than anything W.A.S.P. has done before. They guys can compete with anybody in the world, they are world class musicians but equally as important is their level of creativity. They bring a lot to the dance and when we sit down to do pre-production for records it's like a think tank in there as far as ideas that are being thrown around. To give you an idea, when you asked how much of this is me? On the last album we just did, Babylon, Doug Blair our guitarist... if someone made the statement that his contribution was larger than my own on Babylon you'd have a fair argument."

Read the full interview at this location.

W.A.S.P's new video for 'Babylon's Burning', a track from the band's latest album Babylon, is available below. The album has been available in North America since November 17th, 2009

The band recently updated their live schedule with a string of US dates in February/March. The band now have the following dates scheduled:

February

26 - Canyon Club - Agoura Hills, CA
27 - Galaxy Theatre - Santa Ana, CA
28 - 4th & B - San Diego, CA

March

4 - The Cubby Bear - Lincolnshire, IL
5 - Alrosa Villa - Columbus, OH
6 - Harpos - Detroit, MI
9 - Showcase Live - Foxboro, MA
10 - Mulcahys - Wantagh, NY
11 - The Gramercy Theatre - New York, NY
12 - Jaxx Concert Hall & Night Club - Springfield, VA
13 - Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ
20 - Backstage - San Antonio, TX
25 - New Oasis - Sparks, NV

April

22 - El Teatro Colegiales - Buenos Aires, Argentina
25 - Victoria Hall - Sao Paulo, Brazil