Music Review: Danzig - The Lost Tracks of Danzig - Page 2

Disk one also includes the excellent "Cold, Cold Rain" which is just a strong song, dark, epic, and a definite keeper. Another good one is "Satan's Crucifiction" which has a great feeling of unease in the opening guitar riff, plus the obvious satanic overtones. Glenn has been quoted as saying this about the track: "The song 'Satan's Crucifiction' ... is actually one of my favorite songs, and I love it. The double guitars, the vocals — it's a great song that didn't make it to the album. The main reason was that I wrote it as a joke to piss off the label [Def American]. They were like, 'Please don't do another satanic record, because MTV is playing you guys now, and the radio is playing you guys.' I wrote that song and we called the label guy, threatening him that the record was going to be all satanic. He flew down to the studio in a rage and we wouldn't let him listen to it, and he was all pissed off."

Sounds about right, glad that is out now, as it is a good track. There is another track which is a bit to the controversial side, and is a decent Danzig track, "White Devil Rise" written in response to a speech by Louis Farrakhan. It sort of paints Danzig in a rather racist light, although I am not entirely sure that was the intent, but I do not know, and probably wouldn't be surprised.

That brings me to one more track from disk one that is worth mentioning, "Come to Silver." It is a haunting acoustic track that Glenn had originally written for Johnny Cash, but issues between Glenn and American Records prevented the Man in Black from recording it. It is a dark song that I can imagine with Cash's voice.

Disk two inches us ever closer to the more recent Danzig offerings. The disk opens with the excellent, percussive groove of "Lick the Blood Off My Hands" followed by "Crawl Across Your Killing Floor," another strong dark groove. If anything, the second disk may offer up stronger work than the first disk, with such eerie tracks as "Bound by Blood," "Malefical," and "Dying Seraph." One song that grabbed me right away was "Soul Eater," the heaviest offering of the set, delivering the headbanging goods.

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