listening to them and we were like "WOW man this is really getting creepy!" Like always, things started to take shape, and before you knew it we had a concept and we had "The Darkness" and this was exactly what we were looking for. We reached out towards the end for the likes of Sid Haig and Bill Mosley and said we kind of want you to be secretly on the record and if people know you that's awesome, and be that cherry on that amazing horrible sundae nightmare, you know what I mean? I am really, really pleased with the way it came out!
Mike: What where you trying to communicate to the listeners?
Jamie: Well one thing we have come across a lot of the times, because we are very very active on social media, twitter, instagram and all that stuff, is that these are real people with real problems and more times than not, people won't listen to them. It could be something as simple as "Hey I'm getting bullied!" "Hey, I'm going through a change in life!" "Hey, my wife's a bitch or my husband is a fucking dickhead!" All these different things that happen around us which make up life. People get lost in that and they tend to tell us that our music is a release for them. More time than not we call it "Audio Medicine". I think what we wanted to do was to continue to do that, but to show you that in some cases, no matter how bad you think you got it, it could be worse. We hear you ! Stay the course! I think that a lot of times that's what our listeners do. They will have an incredibly bad day but instead of going and punching someones face in, they will go in the car, turn up the radio and roll up the windows, put on "Darkness" and blast it! Just scream and hit the steering wheel and vent! How ever you would describe that process was what we were trying to get through to them and provide for them.
Mike: So like "Musical Therapy!"
Jamie: Ya know, I hope! I don't want to be presumptuous, but that's kind of like what I would want to say. At the end of the day, worst case scenario, we could provide at least that. To new listeners, we gave a solid record to show where we came from. The difference now is that we are better at what we do! We are never blowing our own horn, we are not the type of people that jock ourselves. Truth be told, we are better at what we do now, than what we did then. If you are a carpenter and day one you you make a box compared to the past twelve years doing it, your gonna be a pretty damn good box maker! With practice comes greatness. I just feel we are better now then we were back then. To go back and revisit those dark tones and those themes and kind of bring it back full circle. I think it was a treat for all the listeners to be like, "Man this is awesome!" I hear a hint of "Freakshow" lingering in the background! The fans can hear hints of our beginings, I hear it too, man I am one of our biggest fans! I listened to it and I heard it too and gave me the fucking chills and I was like "Yeah, Yeah, this is it!" All good things!
Mike: With the new album and touring, what are some things fans can expect? I know you were working on new makeup!
Jamie: As always, when we do our shows, we are the kind of people that leave it all on stage and borrow some energy from another universe and leave that on stage as well. We definitely don't half ass it when we throw down. We understand what it's like to stand in line for six hours in the sun, or the cold, or the rain or whatever it is to try and get in and see your favorite person give a half ass performance. We will never do that! We actually are going to try, I don't know this for sure, I'm like 60 - 40 on this. But we are actually going to try and do the whole record live this time around. Now I don't mean every word, but something from each and every song on the record, in addition to other favorites and songs that we enjoy as well. We have only done that one other time before. It was during the "Wicked" era and I believe the tour was called "End Of Days" and we played "Wicked" in chronological order as they appeared on the CD and we looked as we did on the cover. It was a really cool concept. We haven't done that in years, and we were thinking of revisiting that. It's still in that laboratory phase right now and how we are going to go about doing it.
Mike: At this point, do you still see TWIZTID evolving as a machine?
Jamie: I want to say that we are still evolving as a machine. The fact of the matter is, I don't tthink we will ever be content. That is one thing that my brother and I will definitely agree on. I don't want to say we are never happy but we are