Danzig iii how the gods kill

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« Danzig III: How the Gods Kill »

	CD Album Dark Heavy Metal [Lyrics: Glenn Danzig] godless feeling in me night after night godless feeling in me borne of their lives you gave me all of this and more yea that’s for sure i can’t believe in all your pain under the draining of a christian deities blood you tell your childre n they’re insane i couldn’t love it anymore i had to listen to my heart i couldn’t take it anymore and so you leave me godless just spread your tentacles of hate around my life i’ve taken more than you could ever give you can’t believe that someone challenges your right i’m gonna send you back your pain i couldn’t love it anymore i had to listen to my heart i couldn’t take it anymore and so you leave me godless i ask all who have gathered here to join me in this feast may we always be strong in body spirit and mind and all of those who would try to harm us let them be cast aside [Lyrics: Glenn Danzig] anything you want anything the world has to offer i can give you if you just reach out to me take my hand everything a kiss cannot bring i will give you if you just say you will and it’s freedom in my arms and it’s freedom in my arms in my arms in my arms in my arms anything you want anything this world has to offer i can give you all this world and its glories and its sins i will give it all to you take my hand if you just say you will anything you want it’s in my arms anything you need it’s in my arms anything you want it’s in my arms anything you need it’s in my loving arms in my arms in my arms in my arms [Lyrics: Glenn Danzig] [chorus:] bodies please don’t cry bodies don’t die bodies please don’t cry bodies i been taking all the silver i been saving all the gold i’m gonna stuff it down the throat of a week old corpse save that doggone soul i been saving up my pain i’m gonna give it back in spades i been strangling the cries from the murder of love save your soul tonight i been rasing up the dead gonna send them to the house of cain i been praying in light of the warning moon slay your doggone soul i been put upon this world i been walking up and down to and fro save your doggone soul i got bodies on the left i got bodies on the right i got bodies up and down all across town save your soul tonight 4. How The Gods Kill [Lyrics: Glenn Danzig] if you feel alive in a darkened room do you know the name of your solitude if you ain’t got the answer if you don’t know the truth if you want the power then let it flow through would you let it go would you let it go they cannot end this mourning of my life show me how the gods kill if you feel alive if you got no fear do you know the name of the one you seek if you want the answer if you want the truth look inside your empty soul there you’ll find the noose would you let it go would you let it go they cannot end this mourning of my life show me how the gods kill 5. Dirty Black Summer [Lyrics: Glenn Danzig] no summer in the wintertime will keep you warm like a funeral pyre and nothing like an august night drenched in your loving i got a dirty black summer and nothing in the coolest light cant stop the walking out across the line no holding back the summer night i got a feeling it’s just a dirty black summer 6. Left Hand Black [Lyric: Glenn Danzig] kinda like a dog w/ seven pupils in its eye kinda like a madness that refuses to subside kinda like everything you want just w/in your grasp kinda like how a banshee-wail dances on a living heart i’m gonna stand at the top of the world challenge the heavens gonna bring you god gonna bring you god in the pain of the left hand black gonna bring you god kinda like when the sun goes down and darkness makes its climb kinda like all your muscle tissue starting to unwind kinda like if you brave the hate feed it to the left hand black how i know i can take their power send it back at triple times strength how i see the battle and the bleeding human race how i miss the taste of it it’s sweet and warm embrace how i see the world’s demise its last and final gasp how i see reality explode into another kind of life 7. Heart Of The Devil [Lyrics: Glenn Danzig] i am heart of the devil i have heart of the devil i can make a man freeze in his tracks i can make a man fall to his death i can make a girl so eager to please i can make a young girl lay down for me because i’m evil and love is gone i can make the skies thunder and shake i can make the world tremble and quake i can make your pulse pound in your veins i can make your heart stop and start again because i’m evil love is gone i can make the world tremble and shake i can make the skies black in my wake i can make a girl so eager to please i can make a young girl lay down for me because i’m evil and love is gone my love is gone [Lyrics: Glenn Danzig] take my hand you’ll never find another quite like mine if you look you’ll see that i’m a lonely one i lost my soul deep inside and it’s so black and cold deep inside sistine smile you’ll never know the trap it’s set and if you did you’ll never look into its eyes the sun don’t shine the wind won’t blow when you go hide without your love i’m lonely deep inside 9. Do You Wear The Mark [Lyrics: Glenn Danzig] devil on the left angel on the right there’s no mistake who’ll i be w/ tonight over the fore lamb’s head on my lap days pass like weeks w/o the sight then comes the fury of the lullaby then comes the fury of the lullaby heartbeat in a hole an eyeball loose and wild dropping memories out upon the open tiles and over to the left there sit the loveless ones crying slowly and sucking on a gun do you wear the mark do you wear the mark darling darling do you wear the mark 10. When The Dying Calls [Lyrics: Glenn Danzig] out of the night comes a timeless thing calm in simplicity whispers soft a seductive voice meant for the human ear down down down i’m gonna take you down that’s when the dying calls if i look in the dark of this world if i lose i don’t mind that’s when the dying calls down thru the ages from the dawn of time roam thru the world of dreams up drom the black of the mississippi mud calling out to everything down down down i’m gonna bring you down that’s when the dying calls if i play in the dark of this world if i lose i don’t mind that’s when the dying calls

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Тексты демонстрируют продолжение исследования Гленном заветов христианства, как, например, «Under the draining of a christian deities blood / You tell your children they\’re insane» и «You can’t believe somebody’s challenging your right / I gonna send you back your pain» в «Godless». «Anything» и «How the Gods Kill» повествуют о желании большего, чем мир может дать, об осознании своей собственной силы и нежелании сдаваться. Кроме всего прочего, никуда не делись ведьмы, бесы, и гедонизм. Не знаю, что именно хотел сказать автор в «Sistinas», но зная Данцига, можно решить, что он признается в любви богоматери, созерцая лик Систинской мадонны. Черт его знает!

Можно добавить, что в качестве обложки использована картина «Мастер и Маргарита» известного художника H.R.Giger’а, рисовавшего эскизы для фильма «Чужой», чьи работы для обложки «To Mega Therion» использовали Celtic Frost, а задник украшает фотография P.D. Miller’а, перед которым ребята в буклете извинились за то, что хоть он и делал обложку для «Люцифуга» (предыдущего альбома), ему эту заслугу каким-то образом не зачли. Мне больше всего импонирует фотография в самом буклете, где группа в полумраке позирует перед как-будто стандартным соборным витражом, изображающим, однако, беса, грызущего дев младых. Там еще какие-то деревья фигурируют рядом, так что скорее всего это не фото с натуры. А иначе было бы здорово!

Несмотря на то, что в плане лирики Гленн со товарищи продолжают гнуть все ту же линию еретиков, и отступать от нее не будут на протяжении всей своей карьеры, музыкального разнообразия на диске вполне хватает. На следующем альбоме группа вступит в дебри экспериментов с индастриалом, и от баллад и блюза не останется практически ничего. Наслаждаемся моментом расцвета!

5 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Danzig III: How the Gods Kill’

Long before his improbable reunion with the Misfits, back in 1988, Glenn Danzig found his voice as a solo artist when he released the breakthrough debut album that shares his surname. But it was 1992’s Danzig III: How the Gods Kill that cemented the iconic singer as a genuine rock star with songs like «Dirty Black Summer» and the title track, which distanced the muscular frontman even further from his punk roots. At the same time, Danzig III was hardly a typical metal album. Sure, the guitars were heavy and distorted and many of the songs were angry and brooding. But the band’s Delta blues influences and Glenn’s melodramatic vocals, which were equally influenced by Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley and Ozzy Osbourne, fused together into a novel sound.

Not only did Danzig deny being a metal artist when the album came out, but he also insisted that his band existed outside of the boundaries of rock itself. «We’re not rock & roll, and we’re not good timey rock & roll,» he said around the release of Danzig III. «If someone gets the feeling of elation from our music, it’s from something else — from an inner spirit or an inner message in there that they relate to and it makes them feel good about themselves and about their life and about the world.»

Beyond crafting unique and timeless songs, Danzig built a mystique around himself over the years — part New Jersey–born barbarian, part soft-spoken yet intimidating cult figure — which helped earn him a devoted following. Danzig III: How the Gods Kill played its part, too.

Danzig wrote songs for the album in late 1991 and early 1992 and then entered Hollywood Sound Recorders studio. As on his previous solo albums, guitarist Johnny Christ, bassist Eerie Von (who played with Danzig in Samhain) and drummer Chuck Biscuits (whose resume included D.O.A., Black Flag and Circle Jerks) all contributed to the rock-but-not-rock, metal-but-not-metal vibe of Danzig III: How the Gods Kill.

Here are some other things you probably didn’t know about the album.

1. After working on two albums with Rick Rubin, Glenn Danzig decided to self-produce the record
Since Danzig has never been not a big fan of being in the studio, he and his band fine-tuned the songs in the practice room and recorded them quickly to capture the immediacy of the experience. «It was the most enjoyable record we’ve ever done in our life,» the singer told The Box in 1992. «We did the basics for this record in about four days. Working with other producers, it would take us a month, two months.»

2. Swiss painter and Alien creature creator H.R. Giger removed a problematic erection from an existing painting for the album cover
As a fan of comic book art and sci-fi, Danzig was deeply familiar with Giger’s work and asked the celebrated Swiss surrealist if he could use an image from the artist’s 1976 painting «Meister und Margeritha» (translation: The Master and Margarita). To placate the band’s record label, Giger revamped the unnerving erotic visual a bit, replacing the erect penis of «The Master» with a dagger decorated with Danzig’s skull symbol.

3. Danzig wrote the single «Dirty Black Summer» about growing up in New Jersey
One of the catchiest songs on Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, «Dirty Black Summer» sounds like Black Sabbath crossed with the Doors and echoes with mischief. «Kids can’t wait to get out of school,» Danzig said of the single. «And when they get out of school, it’s just hot, boring and there’s nothing really to do except get in a lot of trouble. That’s my summer. That’s what I did and I see a lot of kids doing the same thing. So I wanted to do a summer song. I never did a summer song before.»

4. Blues man Willie Dixon was originally going to sing a verse on «Heart of the Devil»
As Danzig prepared to record III, he contacted Dixon, who agreed to contribute to the record. Sadly, the two never got the chance to work together due to the blues musician’s death in January 1992. «I went down and met with him and played him our stuff,» Danzig told Headbanger’s Ball. «In my opinion, he’s one of the great blues singers and songwriters so I was looking forward to try and write a song together. And as we were preparing for the record, he died.»

5. The inverted cross in the album’s liner notes was not intended to be blasphemous
The booklet of Danzig III: How the Gods Kill unfolded into the shape of an inverted cross, a symbol that most would interpret as being anti-Christian. But for Danzig, who found the image aesthetically pleasing, the upside-down cross wasn’t a reference to Satan. «If [you] knew anything about the upside-down cross, [you’d] know it was a very holy symbol,» he told Spin. «In fact, St. Peter was crucified upside down because he said that it would be blasphemy to be crucified like his lord, Jesus Christ.»

Danzig – Danzig III: How The Gods Kill

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Released with a fold-out booklet incl. poster / lyric sheet.

Recorded at Record Plant and Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA.
Mixed at A.M Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Mastered at Masterdisk, New York, NY.

Front cover illustration (slightly modified):
H.R. Giger, «Meister und Margeritha» © 1976 (on back cover).
© H. R. Giger 1992, «The Master and Margarita», Work # 307, 1976. Through Leslie Barany Communications / NYC (in booklet).

Back Cover Photo: Peter Darley Miller (who also did the «Lucifuge» album cover but didn’t get credit because Renay Palome forgot).

All songs written by Glenn Danzig and published © 1991, 1992 Evilive Music ASCAP.

℗ 1992 Def American Recordings Inc.
© 1992 Def American Recordings Inc.

Danzig – Danzig III: How The Gods Kill

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— Glossy cover
— Issued in a gatefold sleeve
— Sticker on front cover
— No track times on this release
— No printings on spine

On sticker:
danzig III how the gods kill
512 270-1

From inside gatefold:
Recorded at Record Plant and Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA
Mixed at A.M Studios, Hollywood, CA
Mastered at Masterdisk, New York, NY
Front cover illustration © H.R. Giger 1992, «The Master and Margarita,» Work# 307, 1976.
Published © 1991,1992 Evilive Music ASCAP.

On rear cover:
Front cover illustration © H.R. Giger 1992, «The Master and Margarita» © 1976.
℗ 1992 Def American Recordings Inc. © 1992 Def American Recordings Inc. Manufactured and distributed by Phonogram Limited

On labels:
℗ 1992 Def American Recordings Inc.

Danzig – Danzig III: How The Gods Kill

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on front sticker:
«Special Limited Edition of
danzig III how the gods kill
Also Contains the Uncensored
‘R’-Rated Video Single
2-45134″

This is a limited edition box set, featuring a long cardboard box with a «three dimensional» embossed version of the H.R. Giger artwork. It comes with a VHS tape, featuring the uncensored version of the «How The Gods Kill» promotional music video. The CD insert booklet has a photograph of the band on the cover, rather than the H.R. Giger artwork.

Recorded at Record Plant and Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA.
Mixed at A&M Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Mastered at Masterdisk, New York, NY.

Box front cover illustration: © H.R. Giger 1992
«The Master and Margarita» Work #307. 1976.
Through Leslie Barany Communications/NYC

Direct Management Group

©℗ 1992 Def American Recordings, Inc.
Made in U.S.A. All Rights Reserved.

VHS Hi-Fi
Dolby B NR on Linear Tracks
Def American Visuals, Inc. © 1992 Def American Recordings, Inc.

All songs published by © 1991, 1992 Evilive Music ASCAP

CD released in a standard jewel case with black CD tray and a 12-page booklet with lyrics, photos and credits.