I will be right upfront with this, Glenn Danzig scares me. I mean it, this guy is seriously strange. I saw him in concert a few years ago, and he puts on a great show, he has a great voice, granted he doesn't have the range he had, it is still a unique voice on the goth-metal front. But when you watch him, he will creep you out, the way he stares, the way he moves, gives me the willies.
This is the second DVD release for Danzig, following 2003's Archive De La Morte. Il Demonio Nera follows the same format, delivering a few videos from from a certain period, this one being the Danzig 4-5 era. This disk gives us 6 songs and 13 videos, with some of them previously unreleased.
Here is the track listing for the disk:
Until You Call On The Dark (MTV Version)
Until You Call On The Dark (GD Performance)
Until You Call On The Dark (Band Performance)
Can't Speak (Clean Version)
Can't Speak (Filter Pass Version Directed by Fred Stuhr)
I Don't Mind The Pain (MTV Version)
I Don't Mind The Pain (GD Performance)
I Don't Mind The Pain (Band Performance Directed by Dean Karr)
Sadistikal (B/W only Unreleased)
Sadistikal (B/W & Color Unreleased Directed by Glenn Danzig)
Sacrifice (Directors Cut - Letterbox Directed by Glenn Danzig)
Serpentia (Unreleased Reg. Version)
The only one I had seen prior to this disk was "Can't Speak," and that was an episode of Beavis & Butthead. MTV has never been too kind to Glenn and his work. Fortunately he has released these disks to give us an insight into his visual domain.
The first videos, for "Until You Call on the Dark," are primarily performance pieces. The second version is a single camera take focusing on Glenn's performance. He performs the video in this S&M outfit, hiding his face behind a mask, but moving unmistakably as Glenn. Watching him move around the stage while the band played and slave master women cracked their whips and the crowd clamored on the far side of a net separating them from the stage, was kind of weird. Like a metal show at a Renaissance Fair.
Article comments
1 - Tan The Man
Danzig is cool.
2 - Chris Beaumont
Yeah he is, but he still scares me.
3 - Joe Battista
Tiny Glenn Danzig scares you? You know he's about Ronnie James Dio-sized, don't you? Remember the video of that guy punching Danzig in the face? That was funny. I also remember the big debate over who would win in a fight: Danzig or Henry Rollins.
4 - Chris Beaumont
Not sure I would call him tiny, short yes. But he is thick! I never saw that video.
Watching him in the videos, the way he carries himself, it's just, just, odd, in a creepy way.
I would love to see him tour with Type O Negative.