Harold "Howie" Herula of the "Hard Edge Radio" show on TapDetroit.com conducted an interview with Wayne Static on October 29 — less than three full days before the STATIC-X frontman's death. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below.

Asked about the lyrical themes covered on his 2011 solo album "Pighammer", Static said: "Well, it was a very transitional part of my life. I had been a hard drug user for many years, and I wrote that record while my wife and I were trying to come down off drugs, and a lot of the record is about that.

"The song 'Assassins Of Youth'… 'Assassins of youths' is what they used to call drugs in the old days when they first started the anti-drug campaign. And it's kind of an anti-drug record. Most of the songs are about drugs and doing drugs and all that kind of stuff.

"People don't realize it's an anti-drug record, not pro-drug record.

"Believe me, I had a great time [doing drugs]; I mean, it was awesome. [Laughs] [But] I became an addict. I didn't know that would happen. I'm, like, 'Oh, I'm not gonna addicted. I'm just gonna have a good time.' And then five years later, I'm all strung out. So that record was really interesting."

He continued: "My wife and I sold our house in L.A. and we moved out to the high desert in California, by Joshua Tree, and we're out in the middle of nowhere. So it was kind of therapeutic in a way. I did everything myself — I produced it, engineered it, played everything, wrote everything — so it was very gratifying in that way as well. Because I wrote all the STATIC-X songs as well, and then I had to go back and play the demos for all these other clowns [in the band] and then argue with them endlessly in the studio about whether the drums were loud enough or the bass was loud enough, or whether there should be a drum fill there… You know what I mean?! So it was really awesome just making the record by myself, and that was my vision for 'evil disco,' that was my original vision, and it was awesome to be able to make it happen, to have the opportunity."

Static also spoke his plans for the follow-up to "Pighammer", which he hoped to release sometime in 2015.

"I'm definitely gonna have a new record out next year," he said. "I've been using every spare moment that I haven't been touring to be writing. I've got some cool stuff going on, and everyone's gonna dig it. No big left turns or anything like that. It's gonna be straight-up evil disco, what you would expect from me, but the songs are just really solid. And I'm just gonna make sure every song is super tight and solid, and I'm trying to get it out in a timely fashion.

"It's just been really hard, 'cause I had a really hard year in 2012 where I had to have triple hernia surgery, and I was out of commission for a year; I couldn't walk, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do anything with work. So it was kind of a rough year. I'm all recovered, and we had a lot of making up to do. We've just been touring a lot, trying to make up for last time. And I've also been trying to write."