Nikki Sixx has reportedly hit the snooze button on his side project, Sixx:A.M.
James Michael, the band’s singer, was asked by Metal On Loud why they were releasing a best of album, Hits, on Friday, when the interviewer — mistakenly — felt those types of albums are usually reserved for the end of an artist’s career.
Michael said, “I think for us, we really don’t know what the future holds for Sixx:A.M. So for us, when we sat down and started doing these recordings [for Hits], it was pretty much, in our minds, ‘Okay, this is a good way to kind of wrap up Sixx:A.M.’s body of work.'”
He adds, “So we were kind of looking at it as, ‘This is the end, at least for now.’ And that was also an important aspect to us going into the studio and doing this because we really wanted to be able to — for lack of a better way to describe it — wrap this up and put a nice bow on it and really feel like we’ve controlled this from the beginning to the end. So it was fun and it was exciting. And as I said, we never know what Sixx:A.M. is gonna do in the future, but for now, we’re looking at this and saying, ‘This is a good way to wrap this up.'”
Hits contains 20 songs, six of which are bonus tracks exclusively for this release.
Nikki Sixx will be be busy next year as Motley Crue will come out of their so-called retirement for their stadium tour with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett,
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