The following interview is courtesy of Vit Wagner from Thestar.com:

There's a reason why TWISTED SISTER's rendition of "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" sounds an awful lot like the glam-metal band's own signature fave, "We're Not Gonna Take It." The opening lines to both songs share the same six-note sequence.

Mind you, singer Dee Snider, who penned the Twisted Sister hit for the band's breakout 1984 album Stay Hungry, swears on a stack of holiday hymnals that he wasn't aware of the similarity until it was pointed out to him nearly a decade later by a guitarist.

"We were swapping stories about songs that had been inspired by other songs," recalls Snider on the line from his home in Long Island, N.Y. "And (Al Pitrelli) said, `Well, what about `We're Not Gonna Take It' and `Oh Come All Ye Faithtful'?'

"I thought, `Holy shit. You mean 19 years of singing in the church choir paid off.' But it was totally unconscious."

'Oh Come All Ye Faithful', 'White Christmas', 'Deck The Halls', 'Silver Bells' and a half-dozen other seasonal classics decorate Twisted Christmas, a head-banging holiday album that is being hailed as one of this year's most unlikely seasonal treats. The aging, mascara-coated warhorses, also including guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda, bassist Mark Mendoza and drummer A.J. Pero, even have a tour to support the disc, including a show Tuesday at the Danforth Music Hall.

Twisted Sister has been performing 20 to 25 shows annually since regrouping four years ago, and at one time, the album and tour were being billed as the band's swan song. But the buzz generated by the CD means that Snider says calling it quits isn't in the cards now.

"We have not had this much interest since the '80s. So the guys are looking at me with these big, puppy-dog eyes going, `You're not leaving now are you?'

"It's nice to be with the guys and everything, but this is not my life now," says Snider, 51, who co-hosts a show on Sirius satellite radio. "But it's been going so well that only a fool would look a gift horse like this in the mouth."

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