Sebastian Bach is not only one of rock’s strongest vocalists and vivacious performers — he is additionally the foul-mouthed king of pull quotes.

Case in level: In a latest dialog with UCR, the famously outspoken singer had a easy message for critics of his left-leaning politics and vocal help of the Democratic Party: “Go fuck yourself.”

Bach’s free-speech advocacy ought to come as no shock to longtime followers or anyone who’s listened to his new album, Child Within the Man, which options the swaggering, riff-heavy single “Freedom,” on which he wails: “Freedom / You ain’t got no time left to waste / Now we’re kicking ass and taking names.”

It turned out to be a prescient message. “There’s a song on my new album called ‘Freedom,’ and that’s everybody’s word right now,” Bach tells UCR. “I even read the comments [on my social media], ‘Oh, I love Kamala Harris’ new kicking-ass, taking-names attitude.’ I’m like, ‘What is going on? I wrote this song years ago!’ And it’s like everybody’s talking about freedom, kicking ass and taking names. So I’m like, ‘Well, I’ve got a song for right now.’”

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Bach additionally just lately shouted out Taylor Swift after she publicly endorsed Harris following the September presidential debate with a cheeky tweet that learn, “I have done my research & I am endorsing Taylor Swift,” adopted by the hashtags #Freedom, #KickingAss and #TakingNames.

Does that double as his personal presidential endorsement? Bach performs coy.

“You know, I don’t tell people what to do, but I will say that if we don’t have democracy, we don’t have anything. So there, I just said it,” he laughs. “People say, ‘You’re alienating your audience.’ When I say things like that, I gain, like, 40,000 fucking followers! So this whole ‘Don’t alienate people’ — there’s only side that is fucking alienating people! There’s only one! The other one is actually uniting people. So spare me, ‘Oh, he’s losing 50% of his audience.’ I don’t want that 50%, so fuck off! That 50% is not cool enough to listen to Sebastian Bach, so go fuck yourself.”

Sebastian Bach Doesn’t Believe in ‘Shut Up and Sing’

Bach is heading again on the street this Friday for the second leg of his 2024 tour, which, by the way, will hold him on the street by means of the November presidential election. Fans should not anticipate him to tamp down his political musings within the meantime.

“I just have a problem when I hear people say, ‘I don’t want musicians to say what they believe in. Just shut up and sing.’ Well, I’ve got two words for you: Black Sabbath,” Bach says. “When I listen to a song like ‘War Pigs,’ I couldn’t think of a more political lyric of any music there is in life than that fucking song. ‘Generals gathered in their masses / Just like witches at black masses.’ I mean, to me, that’s saying, ‘Fuck these assholes!’

“I really feel that at instances like these, there’s an excessive amount of at stake to be silent,” he continues. “To be silent is to be complicit. For each fucking Ted Nugent on the market, there’s a Sebastian Bach, and I’m high quality with that. I’m good with that. You go say what you need to say, and I’m gonna say what I would like to say.”