Glenn Danzig Returns To Houston To Perform At White Oak Music Hall September 3rd

Glenn Danzig just announced a U.S. tour celebrating 35 years of his debut solo album, Danzig. Every night on the 13-date run, Danzig will play their iconic 1988 record in full. The horror-punk icon will be touring North America with extreme-metal vets Behemoth, as well as Twin Temple and Midnight. The tour starts off August 25th in Las Vegas and will hit both coasts of the U.S. before the show performs it’s final date September 17th in Chicago. They will be performing in Houston, Texas on September 3rd at White Oak Music Hall. Last year Glenn Glenn Danzig and his bandmates performed the entire 1990 album “Danzig II: Lucifuge” on their May U.S. Tour.

Danzig is the debut studio album by Danzig was released in August 1988. The album was the first release on producer Rick Rubin’s new label Def American

Recordings. Def American’s successor, American Recordings, reissued the album in the United States and United Kingdom in 1998. It remains the band’s best-selling album having been certified gold in the U.S. in 1994, and has since been certified platinum. Danzig promoted the album with a successful world tour in 1988–1989. Danzig was recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios and Chung King Metal, and mixed at Smoke Tree and Village.[13] These sessions took place between September 1987 and April 1988.

The song “Mother”, retitled as “Mother ’93" and with live audience overdubs, became a hit on radio and MTV in 1993–94 after a new video-single with live footage was created to mark its inclusion on Thrall-Demonsweatlive. The song was also later included on various hard rock and heavy metal music compila- tions, and featured in the video game series Guitar Hero. It also appeared on the soundtrack to the 2013 film The Hangover Part III continued on page 28

While the album’s liner notes expressly state “All songs written by Glenn Danzig”, the song “The Hunter” was written by Booker T. & the M.G.’s and Carl Wells. Originally recorded by Albert King, the Danzig version of the song only features slightly modified lyrics.

After becoming a cult hero as the lead singer of the Misfits and Samhain, Glenn Danzig finally stepped into the mainstream with his group Danzig, who took the horror-themed lyrical imagery of his earlier groups into darker and more devilish directions while draping his rough but melodic tunes in heavy metal garb.