DANZIG – New Album Announced

DANZIG have announced a new studio album entitled Black Laden Crown, slated to be out mid-May via Evilive Records/Nuclear Blast Entertainment). It’s the follow-up to 2010’s Deth Red Sabaoth. Check out the cover art above.

Danzig has also announced the return of the Danzig-curated Blackest of the Black festival, which goes down May 26 and 27 in Orange County, CA, and will feature Danzig headlining. The fest will also have performances from over 20 other artists, with a full lineup announcement to come.

Glenn Danzig is a name that permeates, infects, and ultimately makes strong, the very soul of hard rock in the ’90s. Through the legendary punk charge of his pre-Danzig outfits Misfits and Samhain, Danzig formed the backbone of today’s mosh movement. Into the deep waves of the Danzig catalogue, and you’ve got a band that has created high-tension hybrids that are still being pondered and quietly adopted throughout today’s metal community. Over eight million records sold, and Danzig is about to unleash a multi-media onslaught that will once again find disciples studying the master.

But first a little history.Danzig’s early works took full advantage of what was initially a vital and productive working relationship ith Rick Rubin, resulting in a self-titled 1988 debut and a follow-up in ’90 called Lucifuge that together enveloped the man’s interest in punk,doom,gothic new wave and an intense California twist on black Satanic metal,culminating in a display of shockingly dark hard rock that sent chills the likes of which today’s Norwegian churchburners could never know.

Danzig III: How The Gods Kill dropped in’92, rewriting the books on Sabbatherian doom metal; super charging the genre with molten guitar god riffs, foreboding but poetic lyrics,and above the fray, THAT VOICE. Glenn is a sonorious tenor blessed with the abilityto caress and terrorize all within a few short breaths.As the luck of the draw would have it, Danzig next found himself with an odd, unplanned Hit on his hands; a live version of the debut album’s ‘Mother’ introducing the mainstream to this buffed-up, ‘black leather powerhouse’. 1993’s Thralldemonsweatlive EP went on to platinum status (following a similarly exalted fate for the debut),and Danzig’s commercial legacy was ensured.

Source: Pitchfork

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