Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with The Aquarian, Sixx:A.M.’s James Michael offered a new update on the band. According to him, the group “don’t have anything planned.”

Michael said the following when asked about the band’s current inactivity:

“You know, it’s a good question. When SIXX:A.M. formed, we never really had the intention of being a band. We were three guys that were pals and loved creating together, and, really, the first music that we created for SIXX:A.M. was so outside of the bounds of what was going on in music at the time. We enjoyed that. That’s kind of like a guilty pleasure. We loved the fact that we could just break the rules of what was going on in music at the time, so we carried that through pretty much our entire career, but we reached a point where we admitted to ourselves that we were a band that had to go out and keep being a touring band and do all of that stuff that bands do. We always said to ourselves, ‘Hey, let’s keep doing this as long as it’s fun,’ and it’s not that it ever stopped being fun, but we did reach a point where we all looked at each other and said, ‘I think it’s time for us to put a period at the end of this sentence. I think it’s time for each of us to go on and do other things.’ At least for me, there was… I don’t want to call it a fear, but there was this concern that we were going to reach the point of diminishing returns, you know? I didn’t want to have albums that I looked back on with regret. A couple of songs that we did towards the end, to be quite honest with you, I was not as excited about. I’m not ashamed of them, but I feel like had we kept going, there would have been a larger handful of those types of moments and of those types of songs.

Listen, we never did SIXX:A.M. for the money. We never did it to put money in our bank accounts. So we thought, ‘Why are we doing this if we are not feeling the same way that we used to feel about what we are doing?’ When we did ‘Prayers For The Damned’ and ‘Prayers For The Blessed’, I think all three of us knew at that time that it would likely be the end of our album making.”

He went on to say that he still talks to his bandmates:

“We still get along great. You know, every time I sit down and decide to put on one of our records just to kind of relive old memories, there is such an electricity about it. I have to admit, a part of me kind of goes, ‘What if we just tried something else? What if we just tried something new?’ I will bet you that both Nikki and D.J. have those same moments.

We don’t have anything planned, and I’m okay with that, because I feel like we wrapped things up very earnestly and very respectfully. But, yeah, every once in a while when I go back and listen to things, I’m, like, ‘I know we could make some more cool stuff.’ I know we could. Especially with where we all have grown as human being, so the idea of that… I mean, let’s put it this way: I am very sincerely retired, and I’m enjoying that, right? But SIXX:A.M. was a magical thing, and there’s always going to be a part of me that thinks there’s something cool right around the corner.”

[via Blabbermouth]