Dee Snider will be celebrating his 60th birthday in a big way.
The Twisted Sister singer announced plans to release a compilation album, Rock and Roll Ain't Dead - Dee Snider Essentials 1983-2015, after dropping lead single "Rock and Roll Ain't Dead" on March 15 during 2015.
He also told Sleaze Roxx "there will be a video and a number of select solo shows in the spring and summer of 2015."
NME reports that the career-spanning compilation album will feature three new tracks alongside stuff from Twisted Sister, Widowmaker, Desperado, Van Helsing's Curse and Dee Does Broadway.
Snider has also been busy working on Dee Snider's Rock & Roll Christmas Tale, which will open in Chicago next month.
"It's a musical I wrote about a struggling rock and roll band who sells their souls to the devil, but find they magic of Christmas instead," he told Motor Trend. "It's alternative holiday entertainment, but it's gotten a really great response and we're finally launching it in Chicago, hopefully bringing it to Broadway in 2015. I've been working on it for five years, starting rehearsals in September and I think we start previews in October. It is pretty crazy."
Blabbermouth gives a pretty thorough summary of the show's premise:
"Dee Snider's Rock & Roll Christmas Tale" tells the story of DÄISY CÜTTER, a heavy metal bar band looking to make it big even though the '80s are LONG over. This year, these four guys are ready to take the ultimate step and, in mythic rock tradition, sell their souls to the devil in exchange for success beyond their wildest metal dreams! But every time they try to seal the infernal pact, their headbanging anthems turn into warm-hearted carols. Soon these rockers are forced to realize their dreams of stardom are no match for the Christmas spirit.
