GLENN DANZIG Talks About His 'Punky, Bluesy, Heavy, Dark' New Album

Glenn Danzig recently spoke to Femme Fatales magazine about DANZIG's new album, tentatively due in late May/early June through Glenn's label Evilive. The as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2002's "777: I Luciferi" will be released in Europe through Sweden's Regain Records. Asked how the recording process is coming along, Glenn said, "the album will come out around late spring. We did somewhere between 11 and 13 basic tracks and I still have to lay my vocals. The lineup is me, Tommy Victor, Jerry Montano on bass, and Bevan on drums — who used to be in Jerry Cantrell's band.

"We're on my label now," he continued. "We just do license deals, so it will be Evilive and whoever I get to distribute it at the parent company. It's been like that since '95 or '96 after I left [Rick] Rubin [and American], and I was like, 'Screw this.' I had my label before Rubin — with Caroline at Virgin — then I did this thing with him where I was on his label. It just eventually did not work out.

With regards to how the new album compares to DANZIG's previous releases, Glenn said, "I'm taking even more of a stance now. I hate rap music. Old rap music I like, but the new stuff I just can't stand. I can't stand the new hip-hop. I hate nu-metal — I'm glad it's dying. It's more of a stand — a punky, bluesy, heavy, dark, drama kind of deal.

Asked for his thoughts on the current musical trends around the world, Danzig said, "what I notice is that at the end of the day, the real stuff will always be around and the trendy stuff will be gone in six months — nine months tops. It's something I talk about with other people, too. Bands who have a platinum record and their next is in the toilet and the label dumps them — they're gone. You don't hear from them again. They might join other bands, resurface five years later in different bands and stuff, but you know what I'm saying. A lot of the time they just get frustrated with the whole business end of music and leave."