51. Danzig – Danzig 4
This album opens with
I am a walking
screaming hell
a thing of torture to behold
this vivisection
splits my soul
and then the music kicks in and you get Danzig’s surly, throaty voice and pounding drums and I remember why I used to worship this whole album.
I love Glen Danzig. I know. He’s a bit cheesy. A bit over the top. But that’s a lot of what I love about him. The mix of metal riffs with with lyrics about death and pain and evil are everything I ever loved about death metal, without the pain of actually listening to death metal.
This album kills. And I don’t mean that ironically or anything. It is all killer, no filler. I’ve listened to this so many times from start to finish that I know every single nuanced fluctuation in Danzig’s voice. And while singing I give the black sun/to sear off your tongue makes me feel really self-aware in a “dude, you are 46 years old, should you still be singing this stuff?” kind of way, there’s a perverse enjoyment in doing so, especially when you get to Let It Be Captured and you listen to Danzig make sweet, sweet love to his own voice.
Favorite song: Going Down to Die
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November 19th, 2008
This is not my favorite Danzig, but it’s one of my favorites. I bought this album while I was in basic training. At the end, we stayed an extra week so we could take Christmas leave. During that last week, they took it a little easier on us and let us go to the PX to do some shopping. I bought this and Slayer’s Divine Intervention. Helped mellow out an otherwise extreme experience.
November 19th, 2008
“Brand New God” is really just one of the best songs Danzig ever did. Sidenote: My high school flame sent me a bouquet of black roses once for a valentine. The card had only the lyrics to “Let It Be Captured” – on black paper of course. It’s hilarious to me now, but oh, we were so deep, dark and tortured!
– Staz