Tales from the Dark side

We've been touring for the last two years with just a break to record Smells Like Children. I prefer to be on the road than to be just sitting somewhere. Touring is the only thing that makes us feel alive.

As opposed to just living in your homestate, Florida?

As opposed to living anywhere. I think that not being on tour -unless we're in the studio- just feels like been dead. If I got an apartment, I'd have to be an adult. I just prefer to be homeless.

Why the decision to put out an EP before the album?

We haven't recorded the album yet and we wanted to give the people something to keep them busy. There are songs that we've been playing on tour the last couple of years which people wanted to hear recorded. We were in New Orleans recording for four months, the things that we experienced in the spectrum of sex and drugs all came out on Smells Like Children.

It's interesting that you decided to remix a couple of songs several times...

We send the songs to some people - we wanted to get their interpretations.

Did you have anything to do with the remixing at all?

No. We just chose the people that did the remixes.

Can you tell us what to expect on your next album, Antichrist Superstar?

It's the end of music as we know it. If the things that are said on the record are true, I don't think that we have anything to look forward to. It's the soundtrack to end of the world.

So basically, it's not really that, er, happy?

Well, it could be happy, depending on what you want.

It's a celebration of the end?

In some ways, yeah. In some ways it's realizing, the world it's what you make it and if you want to destroy it, that's easy to do. You can do it with just one bullet.

What about the music?

I don't want to give too much away, but it's different from what might be expected.

When is it out?

1996, sometime...

And what of your appearance on Phil Donahue, I thought that you hated talk shows?

For the irony, I think that it made things come full circle, with talk shows being such an influence with us, I felt that it was appropiate for us to end up on one.

Was it the experience you thought it would be?

It was a lot more boring than we expected. We expected the crowd to hate us more, we tried our best. The problem is that people are basically very stupid and they don't really have anything very valuable to say, so I didn't tried to say anything either... I just tried to piss them off as much as possible....