Over the past two years, 22-year-old identical twins S&M, or Stacy and Megan, known as the Metal Twins, have achieved celebrity status with a string of accomplishments: music videos, modeling gigs, touring and performing with their favorite bands in front of thousands of people. They just broke the 10,000 mark with their friends/fans on Myspace, having picked up as many as 4,000 in 2006. That is an astounding number and clearly demonstrates the marking potential that Myspace has to offer, making the Metal Twins a real Myspace success story.

     InsideCx: What do you think got the whole Metal Twins thing started, and when did you realize that there was marketing potential for the two of you?

     M: Probably the first time we went on tour with Chimaira and it was really an accident. That was a little over two years ago.

     InsideCx: You have just surpassed the 10,000 mark with your Myspace friends and fans. How is that working for you?

     M: It's just so good for networking, and that is where people make themselves a name today. The industry gave us a name. We put it up there; people see us and see what we do and they are like, "These chicks rock!"

     InsideCx: Where did the Metal Twins name come from?

     S: We are not exactly sure, but we realized as we were going to shows that more and more we would hear people saying, "Oh, the Metal Twins are here," and bands were saying, "Oh, you are the Metal Twins!" We don't really remember if one specific person said it or if the industry started calling us the Metal Twins.

     M: It must have been the industry, because we went to so many shows up and down the East Coast and the bands saw us so much, they were just like, "Hey, look, it's those metal twins. We were at metal shows and we are twins so they called us the Metal Twins. It sprung from there.

     InsideCx: What are some of the highlights from your resume?

     S: The biggest modeling gig we did had nothing to do with the music industry, although they wanted it to: an energy drink called Wild Ride. The bottle has a very metal look to it and hopefully they will market it to the heavy metal community. Onstage we have been killed by GWAR, performed and toured with Chimaira and were in their video for the song "Save Ourselves," and most recently Carnivore. The more people that see what we do, the more offers have come in and it keeps growing.

     M: We have gotten offers to do TV shows, reality shows, a show about twins for HBO but they wanted us to change our look. We did an audition video and then an in-studio audition for the Fuse Network. We were told that we are a common name over there, so we are hopeful the right offer will eventually come along. We don't need a script; just a camera crew to follow us around would be very entertaining.

     InsideCx: Women often get overlooked in metal, but female singers have reemerged. Where do you see yourselves fitting in and growing?

     S: Women are rare in the industry; remember back in the 1980s with the hair metal bands like Motley Crue? They had women onstage as part of the performance. That has disappeared, so we are trying to bring back the sex appeal in metal so that it's like the 1980s and we can have just as much fun now as they did back then. You teach people how to treat you. If you don't want people to f**k with you, then you make sure they don't! If you don't want people disrespecting you, then show them that you are not the type of person to be disrespected!