Glenn Danzig Names His Most Personally Rewarding Album as a Music

What was probably the most personally rewarding inventive expertise of Glenn Danzig’s profession? Throughout a chat with Full Steel Jackie for her weekend radio present, the Danzig, Misfits and Samhain frontman who has additionally labored on the planet of movie and comics singled out the Danzig III: How the Gods Kill album.

“I like all of the stuff I’ve carried out. I would not have carried out it if I did not prefer it,” the singer clarifies, however selecting the 1992 Danzig studio album. “A actually satisfying second was Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, which I produced and Rick Rubin government produced. It was the primary time we cracked the Billboard Prime 20. I bear in mind strolling right into a mall and there was our document. I could not consider it. We have been by no means in a mall earlier than.” Danzig remembers the joys of seeing the album take off stateside earlier than exploding in Europe as properly.

Danzig is again together with his self-titled band in 2025 making ready for what must be one of many nice excursions of the 12 months. He is enjoying reveals with Down, Abbath and Cro-Mags and Danzig additionally spoke with Jackie about how he approaches placing collectively tour payments, his ideas on being a touring musician in 2025 and a few of the newer bands that he is tried to characteristic that mirror his style within the present music scene.

He additionally shares his ideas on social media, whether or not or not new music could be into account and gives a mirrored image on his interactions with Johnny Money.

Try extra of the chat beneath.

It is Full Steel Jackie and I’m so excited to convey you singer, songwriter, actor, director, producer, the one and solely Glenn Danzig. We’re right here to speak about these upcoming reveals with one of many coolest 2025 lineup introduced to date. You are enjoying reveals with Down, Abbath and Cro-Mags becoming a member of you in March. There’s some nice expertise with lots of historical past on this tour. Do you’ve friendships or are you a fan of any of the bands supporting you on this run?

Yeah, in fact. I’ve recognized [Down’s] Phil [Anselmo] eternally. And everybody is aware of I am a giant black metallic fan from manner, manner again. So having Abbath on is unbelievable. And I’ve recognized Harley [Flanagan] since he was just a little child within the Cro-Mags, so…

That is so nice. Severely unbelievable lineup. It was like I virtually fell out of my chair after I noticed.

It is gonna blow all people’s doorways off. So do not miss this present.

Completely. It appears like that is gonna be it for Danzig touring this 12 months. Is that true?

Yeah I believe. I do not actually like happening tour, as you possibly can see. I am solely doing six reveals, so it is identical to attempting to get me to go and do a bunch of reveals. I do not thoughts doing a one off right here or there or no matter, however doing a bunch of reveals, it is like driving round on the bus.

I’ve mentioned it earlier than, I do know that. We needed to make up a Phoenix present final time that needed to get canceled as a result of there was a bus scarcity. And so mainly, with the intention to get a bus, we needed to transfer all our first dates on the tour to the tip of the tour. And there wasn’t an accessible venue in Phoenix at the moment interval, so we’ll make up a Phoenix present. Then we had lots of followers asking why we have not come as much as the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. So we’re attempting to make that up. It will be it for some time.

Glenn, within the final decade or so, you’ve got often commented on probably stopping touring, however as a substitute have opted for extra scaled again appearances. Whether or not it’s with the Misfits, one offs or smaller Danzig runs, has this change into a extra tolerable option to tour? And what have you ever seen as the largest modifications in touring since your early days?

Nicely, all the pieces’s dearer, so we’re paying. The final time I went out was 2022 or 2023. Once more, only a handful of reveals and the costs on buses and fuel had simply gone via the roof. This final time we went out in ’23, they went up 3 times.

We usually pay and this time it is even crazier, although. I believe it is also change into actually onerous for lots of bands to go on the market and tour or do a ton of touring. Younger band simply going on the market, they must exit in a van, sort of how we did again within the day with Danzig and Samhain and the Misfits.

I imply, we’d exit in a van, however we might afford it.

Did you benefit from the van days at the moment?

Uh, no. Nobody loves being in a van with a bunch of different folks and restricted quantity of house, private house particularly. I might must be driving too. Lots of instances we would have a stick shift and me and possibly one different particular person knew how you can drive a stick shift, so I might must drive more often than not additionally.

Oh, my goodness. Simply attempting to visualise that proper now.

Driving and also you’re loading tools in and also you’re doing all the pieces just about proper.

We have to determine a option to get you, like a home on wheels that you could. So we will get you to tour extra. So you may be cool with going out on the highway. All the things that you’ve at dwelling that you just like.

I do not suppose that is gonna occur.

Simply spitballing right here.

However anyway, I am trying ahead to those reveals. But it surely’s been some time and hopefully all of the followers might be digging it and we’ll absolutely have a good time. The lineup, such as you mentioned, is insane. So what else can we do besides come on the market and knock you in your ass.

Glenn, the Danzig lineup are guys you’ve got labored with for fairly a while. But it surely’s been some time since there’s been new music. Granted, you’ve got had a lot happening with a wide range of various things, however with Danzig enjoying reveals once more in March, is new music on the desk?

No.

You are simply going to give attention to touring. You have no curiosity in moving into a brand new dance?

I am not even targeted on touring. I am simply doing six reveals. If that is touring, then what I used to do will need to have been mega touring. We used to exit for 3, 4, 5, six months at a time. So the entire music factor and recording and all the pieces, it is simply modified dramatically the place folks actually do not buy bodily product anymore. They only need to obtain it free of charge on-line. So there’s actually no incentive do new music except I am within the studio and I do one thing and I need to give it away free of charge to all people.

I do not know if that is an amazing enterprise mannequin, however, you already know.

Do you continue to take pleasure in writing music?

Yeah, in fact. However I write numerous totally different stuff, so possibly I do not see the music business altering in any respect. So I do not know if I am ever gonna document once more. Not less than Danzig stuff, possibly in some unspecified time in the future. Do not know proper now.

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You’ve got written for your self, and naturally you’ve got written for others. You’ve got used music, comics and movie as your retailers. What’s inspiring you as an artist in 2025 and are there stuff you nonetheless have in your to do record?

That is a superb query. I do not actually know. Movie takes up lots of time, so I am sort of eh about movie proper now. Comics take up lots of time. I am like about comics like I am sort of about all the pieces.

I like performing onstage. It is simply I hate being on a bus and being away as you already know since you stay in California, we’ve got these fires and all the pieces. If I used to be on tour, I might be not joyful.

Proper. It might be horrible to be away from dwelling proper now with all the pieces happening, too.

Precisely. So there are many issues like that that while you’re on the highway, you need to take into consideration. I do not know what the long run holds. We’ll see. Hopefully it is just a little brighter than it’s proper now.

Glenn, in a contemporary music world engulfed by social media, you’ve got managed to maintain up a mystique about your self by being a comparatively non-public particular person. Do you’re feeling that mystique is one thing that is lacking in at present’s music world?

Yeah, I do not know. It isn’t like I purposely do it. I simply do not give a …

Some individuals are obsessive about all the pieces on-line, and I am identical to I stay in the true world. I do not stay on a pc. In order that’s my angle, you already know.

So you do not have a look at social media. Whenever you have a look at the information, are you trying on-line or the place do you go? You do not spend any time any stuff on social media?

No, I believe that the Web is nice to get information that you just will not get on legacy media, mainstream media, as a result of they’re all buttons offered by the expansion, however I believe must be utilized in moderation on the planet on the market. Some folks simply stay on their pc and do not exit, actually.

You would possibly need to inform folks what to do, however the world is on the market. It is an actual world, not a digital world, if you already know what I am saying.

Oh, one hundred pc. I really feel like most of what we see on-line that individuals challenge about themselves isn’t true. And sadly, lots of people consider what they’re seeing. It is harmful, it is addictive. And I am not going to say I am not on social media, however I can perceive the place you are coming from.

Yeah. So anyway, that is my angle. Individuals can do what they need. I do not care. As a result of like I mentioned I do not give two …

Glenn Danzig on the present with us this week. Let’s speak about Misfits for a second right here. It has been so nice to see you play Misfits reveals once more, and having Dave Lombardo on drums has undoubtedly been a plus. How has that have for you been since coming again to the band and what does it imply to you to see a gaggle that was extra of an outsider band in its prime now being embraced by a brand new technology of followers and musicians?

Nicely, I believe it is nonetheless an outsider band. The band, songs and the fashion have influenced so many individuals throughout many various generations. It is nonetheless not likely acknowledged by mainstream music media as something and right here we’re headlining one of many phases at Coachella.

However, you already know, it is nonetheless sort of a media blackout on them. It is nice. It is like the large center finger to the legacy in mainstream media, music media. We performed Madison Sq. Backyard a pair years in the past. Wow. It is most likely like 5 years in the past now. And we offered it out. We truly oversold it. In order that they opened up extra seats and we offered that out. And it was fairly humorous. Trigger I bear in mind through the punk days, all these massive wig music individuals who have been most likely promoting scorching canine on sixth Avenue have been like, a punk band won’t ever headline Madison Sq. Backyard. So we not solely headlined it, we offered it out. We oversold it. And your little scorching canine stand on sixth Avenue,

Glenn, this isn’t the perfect album query, however I do need to ask you over your expertise with a number of bands, comics and movie tasks, what was probably the most personally rewarding factor that you’ve got labored on simply based mostly off your satisfaction with how issues turned out and what was happening in your life at the moment?

Oh, wow, that is a superb query. I like all of the stuff I’ve carried out. I would not have carried out it if I did not prefer it. A actually satisfying second was Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, which I produced and Rick Rubin government produced.

It was the primary time we cracked the Billboard Prime 20. I bear in mind strolling right into a mall and there was our document. I could not consider it. We have been by no means in a mall earlier than. These document shops that was in malls which can be all gone now.

That was actually nice after which it blew up in Europe additionally. So actually, the document that made the band,

Danzig, “How the Gods Kill”

Glenn, Only in the near past, I noticed the Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown, and Dylan’s friendship with Johnny Money is portrayed within the film. I do know you labored with Johnny writing music for him, in addition to Roy Orbison. What have been your personal experiences working with Johnny, and was he a bigger than life determine for you?

Yeah, in fact. My dad was a giant Johnny Money man. I truly bought {a photograph} signed for him, or Johnny signed a photograph for my dad. He was a very nice man. Positively bigger than life, such as you say, very nice right down to earth. Very cool.

One of many cooler moments right here was truly attending to work with him in 113. After which I wrote him one other track, “Come to Silver,” however I by no means gave it to him as a result of I left American.

Glenn, you’ve explored totally different sorts of music through the years, whether or not it’s horror, punk, industrial, or metallic. How a lot do you take note of at present’s music? And the place do you’re feeling the state of the music scene is true now?

Nicely, you possibly can see the place I see it while you see a few of the bands that I’ll convey out on the highway. We introduced out Midnight, who I believe are unbelievable and bands like that, Mutoid Man and bands like that. I am leaving out bands which I am not doing on function, however you possibly can see we’re bringing a boss outing with us and the Cro-Mags.

I like numerous totally different sorts of music, however normally the music I like all has sort of the identical underlying factor in it that makes you prefer it. So that is what I attempt to do. That is the sort of stuff I take heed to. Whether or not it is classical or soundtrack stuff, or whether or not it is metallic or old fashioned rock or black metallic, no matter. All of it has some sort of similar underlying factor in it that makes me prefer it.

I really feel like all of the excursions and festivals that you’ve got put collectively, like, they’re simply actual deal. It would not ever seem to be any sort of business BS favors that may occur. I really feel such as you’ve all the time stayed true with giving bands that you just consider in and also you dig. And many people dig the chance that they do not usually have. I’ve all the time liked that in regards to the lineups that you’ve got put collectively.

Yeah, properly, we by no means bought these alternatives. I believe Metallica are the one folks that actually ever gave Danzig a shot. Different bands have been both terrified of our viewers or thought we have been too, no matter, they would not give us that chance. So I all the time attempt to guide bands within that platform to offer them a chance. I additionally need to put collectively an amazing invoice.

Individuals work onerous for his or her cash. It is best to get an amazing present, not simply your band, however different bands on the invoice. It must be nice bands all throughout the board. So they arrive away feeling like they simply went to one thing particular. Not only a present, however one thing particular. That is what I attempt to do.

Nicely, you’ve got completely carried out it with the lineup for these March dates. Danzig, Down, Abbath and Cro-Mags. Everybody must make it out and see these reveals as a result of that is going to be it for 2025, and you do not need to miss it.

Glenn, past the upcoming tour, what does 2025 maintain in retailer for you? What comes subsequent?

A couple Misfits, one-offs after Coachella and proper now that is about it. Some comics, possibly potential film tasks. We’ll see.

Due to Glenn Danzig for the interview. Keep updated on all of Danzig’s tasks via his web site. You may as well comply with Danzig on Fb and Instagram and take heed to Danzig music via Spotify. Discover out the place you possibly can hear Full Steel Jackie’s weekend radio present right here.