In a joint statement, they explained, “You might be asking why we’re doing this. Pretty much, after we completed the new album we were discussing future release and tour plans. We found out that the word ‘Toot’ was being lost in translation. In a number of counties the word was widely being interpreted as ‘fart’. It was actually the first thing people thought of when they heard the word ‘toot’.
“Despite this being pretty funny, we decided that it would be best for us to move on with a new name. It’s not a decision that we made quickly or flippantly, but it’s a decision that we’re going to stick with, so if you see the name ‘Twin Beasts’ around town, that’s us. Everything else is business as usual.”
The band has been wanting to change the name for the past 12 months. After all, they decided to become a band on the spur of the moment in a bar.
Aside from fart, “toot” is also slang for the blast hole on the side of a bong or pipe or snorting powdery illegal drugs or bouncing your ass up and down during sex.
