Danzig Album: “Thrall: Demonsweatlive [EP] [PA]”

This is a great EP. I think it's Glenn Danzig's best material including The Misfits And Samhain (they aren't at all far behind though). It captures Danzig's best songs. If you get any Danzig CD get this one. It's Going Down is a great song. It's heavier Danzig stuff. I like the shouting in the chorus. Violet Fire is great. It's dark and bluesy and just evil. The lyrics are cool. I think Trouble is an Elvis Presley cover, I'm not sure though. Danzig does have an Elvis/Jim Morrison voice. Snakes of Chirst Marks the point from Thrall to Demonsweatlive. I love it. Danzig's voice sounds great alongside metal. Am I Demon on this is killer. I wasn't too impressed by it on the first Danzig CD but this caught my ear. Danzig throws his voice and really makes a standout It's so much faster than the album version. The backing vocals are crazy. Sistanas is Danzig's ballad and damn is it a great Ballad. The instruments sound great and his voice is so dark and great. Mother doesn't sound that much better live. It's not the live version they play on the radio. I think that's on the Black hand side live. And track 90 sumthin' is the studio version of mother. Which is brilliant. This is a must have for me. I can't go too long without hearing it.

this is an ep it has a cool artwork done by simon bisley and the music is great trouble, snakes of christ live is awesome dunno what the chump was talking about this is one of the coolest cd covers ever!!!

Creepy Cover and title, Not a "Album" but an "EP" live stuff. three songs thrown on there(not live not on a album,elvis cover song Trouble-Real Cool)

and two songs of his own, Mother 93' aka Mother Live(the Music video that made danzig more popular) ok cd.

This album is split into 2 sections: 3 studio songs and 4 live tracks. With the exception of "It's Coming Down," the studio tracks don't do much for me. But wait, there are still the live tracks. "Sistinas" shows Glenn's amazing voice better than any other song on any other album that I can think of(plus chicks get all mushy listening to it). "Am I Demon?" is furious, and the guitar riffs by John are devastatin. Also, you will actually be able to hear Eerie Von's bass clearly on the live tracks.

Just like a Panzer tank division rolling over an overpopulated Smurf village at the apex of its cultural and economic development, Danzig delivers a pummeling slab of meaty metal pie flambe. Leaving only destruction in his wake, just like the advancing blue and red stained tanks, Glenn declares war on all that is wholesome by establishing an anarchist martial law of depraved evil perversity.

This EP, although light on the number of tracks, converts un-claimed souls to the armies of darkness that follow the Black Ness Monster and his idolatrous minions of evil. I shudder to think how brutal this left-hook could have been if the group had pieced together a full album of live work. Where is the "Twist of Cain," "Tired of Being Alive," "Possession," or "She Rides" amidst this steaming vat of cantankerous ill-fated karma?

Instead, the Master Blaster, gives us three mediocre studio tracks and four kick-ass live vesions of recognizable sing-along Danzig cuts. Still, once past the forgettable "It's Coming Down," "The Violet Fire," and the post-burial Elvis induced "Trouble," Glenn shows us what Hell and skipping Church and/or Sunday school regularly is all about with "Snakes Of Christ." In this horrifying Garden of Evil account, it is midnight every night for the Wicked Warlock of the South who holds a torch burning vigil for those ready to enter the covenous flock of empty-souled disbelievers. From there it gets even more direct as "Am I Demon" solidifies Glenn's place alonside his dark master's throne of pain as an angel with very blackened wings. Only the book of Revelations conjures up such images of darkened armageddon.

As I have said before "Sistinas" is an intersting attempt at slowing down the hate, but Glenn has sounded better. Still, I wish I had met a werewolf at my high school prom so we could have made-out on the dance floor as Glenn purred out this chunk of warped agape love. The closer, of course, is "Mother" which most non-Danzig types would recognize and some devotees despise. Despite the MTV connection with this song the lyrics speak for themselves as Glenn is "Not about to see your light/And if you wanna find Hell with me/I can show you what it's like"--enough said. Clearly, the beast that is Danzig found Hell a long time ago and is ready to spread the seeds of doubt amongst the tender virgin landscape of impressionable neo-agnostics.

Despite the valiant attempt to document Danzig on stage, with Demonsweatlive the listener's appetite for destruction is only whetted to the point of craving a more seamless statement of evil. I pray for the day when the old Danzig lineup returns and promotes the old-fashioned traditions of maligned wrathful irreverent music-making. Only true Danzig fanatics should consider this wretched work which is better left for the closed society of evil-doers and Baptists