To celebrate the band's 30 Years Of Thunder anniversary tour, W.A.S.P. leader Blackie Lawless has penned a monthly diary (fifteen in total) to chronicle the real events of the band and give fans all a little better insight to the last thirty years in their history. Check out an excerpt from the 15th and final diary called “My Cup Runneth Over” below:

"Some of you may have noticed. Over the last several tours, we no longer play 'Animal-F Like A Beast'. I’d like to address that now.

I became a Born Again Christian when I was 11 years old. All throughout my teens I went to church. Nobody made me go, I went because I wanted to. As I got into my later teens I started to become driven by my own ego but also I felt like something was missing. I felt like I was being indoctrinated by other people’s thinking. In other words I was listening to 'the Gospel According To Them'. I thought in many ways it was hypocritical and I became really confused. So I left the church, and for years I went as far away as you could go. I even studied the occult. Now where I come from, that’s a million miles away from the church!! After about 3 years I stopped messing around with all that ‘magic junk’ because I realized I was swapping one form of religion for another. I’ll explain more later.

So I left that and started down a path that would take me the next 20 years to figure out. In that time circumstances happened where someone was trying to really hurt my father. These people were in effect, attempting to take away everything in the world he had. Not just his money, but his dignity. They were also trying to publicly humiliate him. This I could NOT stand by and just watch. After repeated attempts to try and get these people to go away, they WOULD NOT LISTEN!! I was in the middle of making an album when a decision had to be made that would change my life. I had put into motion a plan to go after the main person responsible for all of this misery to my father. After several months it came to a point where a decision had to be made and I was to make that phone call to make that plan happen. Everything was ready to go, all I had to do was make that call. It was on a Sunday night, 9:30 in the evening. I was driving and stopped at a stoplight. I DID NOT want to make that phone call!! I sat there at that stoplight. I slowly started to do something I had not done for 20 years... I started to pray. I asked God to 'take this cup from me, for I DO NOT want it'. I truly did not want to be responsible for that persons ‘blood on my hands’. If you’ve ever loved someone so much (which I do my father) then I hope you can understand how desperate I had be come. I think though, most people, if they’re pushed far enough can become capable of doing things they would never even think of. This is where I was. The next morning the phone rang about 10 AM. It was my father’s lawyer. He says: 'I don’t know what you did to these people but they are dropping EVERYTHING against your father'. I laid there in the bed...stunned!!! No phone call was made, no threats were attempted against them. I did do something to them alright...I PRAYED!!!!!

Over the next few years I started slowly coming back to my faith to where I am now.

I Thank God for that miracle!!"

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On September 21st, W.A.S.P. began their 30 Years of Thunder anniversary tour, starting in the United Kingdom and continuing worldwide.

This World Tour is the biggest spectacle W.A.S.P. have ever created. The two-hour show consists of three parts. A one hour set containing songs from the first four albums. The second set is a 25-minute shortened version of The Crimson Idol complete with the movie accompaniment. A third set consists of material from the new studio album, older material and everything in between. This show sees multiple video screens, pyrotechnics, and elements from the early W.A.S.P. show and Blackie’s moving microphone stand Elvis!

Remaining dates are listed below:

November

20 - Treviso, Italy - New Age
21 - Bologna,Italy - Estragon
23 - Athens, Greece - Fuzz Club
24 - Thessalonki, Greece - Mylos Apotheke Club
25 - Istanbul, Turkey - Kucukciftlik Park
27 - Budapest, Hungary - Club 202

December

3 - Neu Isenburg, Germany - Hugenottenhalle
5 - Osnabrück, Germany - Rosenhof
6 - Memingen, Germany - Kaminwerk