Sixx: A.M. frontman James Michael has expressed openness to reuniting the band and creating new music with Nikki Sixx and DJ Ashba, saying he is interested in a Heroin Diaries anniversary tour, speaking on The Logan Show.
Michael was asked whether the band has discussed such a reunion in an era when anniversary tours and comebacks have become common, and whether he would be open to revisiting past projects.
Question: “I’m sure you’ve been asked this a million times, but now all this time has passed. I mean, is that something especially now in this age where it seems like every single tour ever now is it’s a reunion or it’s an anniversary or it’s a farewell or it’s this or it’s that. It’s like regular tours don’t exist anymore. It’s always some sort of big thing. Is that something that for one you guys have even discussed and for two something that you would be open to like a Heroin Diaries anniversary tour or anything along those lines?”
“We have not discussed it,” James Michael said. “I would be open to that.”
He went on to explain the current state of his relationship with his former bandmates. “I mean Nikki and I text quite often and I literally was just texting with him the other day and I was like, ‘Dude, we got to start creating again at some point, you know? we got to create something together.’ That’s the other thing that I’m so happy about is my relationship with them is I think better now than it ever has been. You know, time has passed. The exhaustion, the burnout is all a thing of the past and now it’s just kind of the legacy that we all can be proud of and and can enjoy.”
“But you know, I would absolutely revisit. I would absolutely get myself into a creative situation with Nikki and DJ again. Because it was so fruitful and honestly it was really enjoyable. We laughed our way through making those records, all of them. You know, the last the well, Prayers for the Blessed and Prayers for the Damn, there wasn’t a lot laughter. It was sheer exhaustion and just stress.”
Michael reflected on the earlier records with more affection. “But for the rest of the records, we really did enjoy making those. We really were great friends and loved hanging out together and just got excited every day that we had a studio day booked.”
He concluded by expressing his curiosity about what a reunited Sixx: A.M. could produce today. “So would I do that again now? Yeah, I absolutely would. I would love to hear what Sixx: A.M. would do now.”
Michael’s comments came as part of a broader discussion about the band’s future and the possibility of new projects. The remarks suggest that improved relationships among the former members have made reunion discussions more feasible than in the past.
Sixx:A.M. was formed in 2007 as a companion project to Nikki Sixx’s autobiography “The Heroin Diaries.” The band consisted of Sixx, James Michael on vocals, and DJ Ashba on guitar. They released five studio albums between 2007 and 2016, with their final release being the double album “Prayers for the Damned” and “Prayers for the Blessed” in 2016.
The band announced a hiatus in 2021 after years of touring and recording left all three members burned out. During the final albums, tensions had mounted within the group. The last new material the band released was a compilation called “Hits” in 2021, after which the members stopped working together.
Since the hiatus, relationships among the three have improved. When Michael formed a new band called Lowlight Revelry, both Sixx and Ashba expressed their support for the project. Michael’s recent comments show that the distance and time away from the project have allowed the band members to recover from the stress and exhaustion that defined their later years together.
