Currently on an Australian tour, vocalist Sebastian Bach recently spoke with HeavyMag.com. An excerpt from the story is available below:

I question Sebastian on the relevance of theatricality in live shows. The days of Alice Cooper or KISS where the show was more about the outfits, the make up, the props, than the music itself are largely gone. Even the biggest bands in the world, such as the Foo Fighters, are almost indistinguishable from their fans. The shows focus infinitely more on the performance of the music than pyrotechnics or glam make up with massive hair.

“The thing with the Foo Fighters,” begins Sebastian, “is that the media has said ‘you’re allowed to be the big rock band’ to the point that you can’t f*cking get away from them! Radio, TV, Internet, they’re everywhere! I’m sitting here going ‘all right, I get it, I get it, they’re awesome.’ I mean, they’re great and all, but there are other f*cking bands out there!”

“But yeah, theatricality definitely seems to be a dying art,” as he brings himself laboriously back to the actual question. “The original Alice was a full experience, with the guillotine and the big fucking spiders and the giant teeth with giant toothbrushes on stage, it was weird! I loved Black Veil Brides when they first came out. They were scruffy and fun. They seem to have cleaned up a little now, though. Now, when I think of theatricality, the artist that leaps to mind as carrying that torch is Rammstein. They just basically torch the whole venue. They’re huge! They’re f*ckin amazing, they sold out Madison Square Garden in, like, an hour. That’s not just a show. That’s a fucking inferno.”

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Ahead of his Australian tour, Sebastian Bach was a guest on The Morning Show On 7. When asked who was the craziest band he had ever toured with, Sebastian repiled, "Pantera. I would warm up my voice doing scales - all this boring vocal stuff. They would warm up by doing 14 shots of Crown Royal."