OTEP Checks Into The Gauntlet With End of Year Recap

By jason • December 04, 2007

Otep Shamaya of OTEP has checked in with The Gauntlet and recapped 2007.

What was your favorite album released in 2007?
-- The Doors Greatest Hits Remastered

2. What was your biggest regret in 2007?
-- As with most it has to do with affairs of the heart. I let someone slip away and I miss her dearly.

3. Saddest moment of 2007?
-- Hearing my album was going to be pushed back from its original release date after EMI started firing all the employees at Capitol Records.

4. Album looking most forward to in 2008?
-- My side project "IMAGINARY FRIENDS". Yes, I am that narcissistic.

5. Plans for the holidays?
-- I will try to spend it with loved ones and continue writing on a new poetry book.

6. Any resolutions for the New Year?
-- Resolutions are for quitters.

7. Favorite non-metal release of 2007?
-- The new Nine Inch Nails album.

8. Favorite places to tour?
-- I just love to perform. It doesn't matter where.

9. Favorite celebrity gossip story?
-- My favorite gossip story involves me and an (unnamed) actress being romantically involved. Part of it is truth. I do know her, and though excessively beautiful, we are just friends.

10. Best show you attended?
-- Radiohead / Redrock

OTEP recently covered Nirvana's "Breed" for "The_Ascension" and has released the video which can be viewed here:

OTEP is currently on tour with HellYeah and Bloodsimple:

Dec 4 2007 6:00P
Norva Norfolk, Virginia
Dec 5 2007 8:00P
Rams Head Live! Baltimore, Maryland
Dec 6 2007 6:00P
Crocodile Rock (OTEP HEADLINING) Allentown, Pennsylvania
Dec 7 2007 8:00P
Palladium Worcester, Massachusetts
Dec 8 2007 8:00P
Webster Theater Hartford, Connecticut
Dec 9 2007 6:00P
Fillmore (Irving Plaza) New York, New York
Dec 11 2007 6:00P
Agora Ballroom (OTEP HEADLINING) Cleveland, Ohio
Dec 12 2007 8:00P
East Peoria Convention Center Peoria, Illinois
Dec 14 2007 8:00P
Cotillion (KICT X MASS SHOW) Wichita, Kansas
Dec 15 2007 6:00P
Aggie Theatre Ft. Collins, Colorado
Dec 16 2007 6:00P
Avalon Theater (OTEP HEADLINING) Salt Lake City, Utah

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