Twisted Sister members Jay Jay French and Eddie Ojeda have announced that former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach will front the band for a handful of select dates this fall. These appearances do not affect or conflict with Bach‘s current or future solo touring schedule, which remains fully intact, reports blabbermouth.net.
A short clip of Sebastian rehearsing with Twisted Sister for the upcoming shows can be heard here.
On February 5th, Twisted Sister announced it had scrapped its 2026 reunion shows after singer Dee Snider resigned, citing health issues.
The band posted on social media that Snider‘s “sudden and unexpected resignation” forced the group to cancel all dates starting in April through the beginning of the summer.
Snider discussed the prospect of somebody stepping in for him as Twisted Sister‘s lead singer during a recent episode of the “Beardo & Weirdo”podcast, hosted by Five Finger Death Punch bassist Chris Kael and comedian Craig Gass. Asked if he thought the band could carry on without him, Snider said ,”I hope so. I believe there’s gotta be somebody out there who can kick ass.”
Asked if he had anybody in mind that he would recommend to take that role, he said, “All right. Okay. Back it up. Back it up. So cut back to, we’re still reunited — it’s, like, 2014, something like that, and we only do, like, 20 shows a year, and they’re headlining festivals, whatever. And we realized that if somebody got sick or had a problem at home and they couldn’t do a show, it would be a great loss since it was one of 20 shows for the year. So we said, ‘Listen, let’s all find a stand-in guy who will do the job in case we can’t make a show.’ I was trying to get someone to replace me, in case we can’t make a show. I was trying to get someone to replace me, and nobody would take the job. And I called him Sebastian Bach. I was, like, dude, ‘Will you be the fill-in?’ And he goes, ‘No way.’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean no way?’ ‘Dude, that’s a thankless job. No, I’m not standing in for you. Never.’ I’m, like, you’re my student. You studied me. You’re a great singer. You can do it. People will love it.’ ‘Nah, nah, no way.’ So him, Michael Monroe from Hanoi Rocks. No way. I hear rumors that the band is actually trying to find someone, and I say, God bless ’em.”
After Gass noted that he has heard that Twisted Sister was rehearsing with one of the singers that were already mentioned by Dee in his previous response, an apparent reference to Bach, Snider replied, “Yeah, I know there’s been rehearsals with him. And he hasn’t reached out to me. I think he knows he has my blessing. And I would never begrudge anybody continuing to rock.”