By: Michael Harris of mp3.com

It's more than twenty years since Glenn Danzig first fronted the notorious punk outfit, the Misfists. Now, the artist is set to release his sixth Danzig album due out November 2 titled, "6:66 Satan's Child." Rest assured, his new material is as dark and uncompromising as ever. We recently had a chance to chat with Glenn about his career and the future of music.

MH: How do you feel about being part of the internet music community?

Glenn: I think it's definitely the future. Of course, I don't think it's ever going to replace traditional distribution. But I do think it's going to become a very important part of distributing music to the people who can't get at certain kinds of music, and maybe people who just don't want to fight the traffic to go to the store.

MH: You've had quite a bit of history both with working with the majors and working on the indie side and now working online. How does it compare?

Glenn: It's kind of like the best of both worlds. Of course, I had my own independent label before I signed with Rick Rubin at Def Jam. But the internet allows you to become so much more independent. So now we have regular distribution, we have A.D.A. (Alternative Distribution Alliance) distribution and we also have internet distribution, which is the direct way to get right to the audience. I still don't think people realize how big the internet is. Like when I tell people, yeah we're number one on this internet station, and they kind of laugh. I'm like, "Why are you laughing? It's not regional. This internet station isn't just heard in some pocket little city. This is heard all around the world." And then you watch their face look like something shorted out, because they're trying to comprehend all of a sudden what global means, as opposed to regional or even local.

MH: How was the making of "6:66 Satan's Child"?

Glenn: For this record, all the basics where done in analogue. Then those basic tracks were dumped into a computer hard drive. Then everything else was done through the computer.

MH: Did you like working in the digital medium?

Glenn: Yeah. People always told me never to record my vocals digitally, because it takes away the warmth and stuff. But if you hear the record and also people's reactions to the way the vocals are recorded, they're just like, "Wow, what did you do?" I recorded my vocals digitally. I went through a mic right into the computer and it came out incredible. It's the way I hear the vocals in my head when I'm sitting around the house and for the first time, I'm actually hearing my vocals the way I think I sound.

MH: So the analog tape is going the way of the vinyl record.

Glenn: Well, I think with (recording) the basics, we'll do analog then dump it into the computer. Unless something changes by the time we do the next record we'll probably still do it that way, but then afterwards, when we're overtracking and all that stuff, we'll definitely do ProTools.

MH: What are you doing to promote this record outside of the online world? Are you still going back to traditional radio and traditional retail?

Glenn: Internet radio is great and it's going to change the face of radio, but it's not there yet and not everyone has a computer yet. I go to Japan all the time because of my comic book company. And literally, they have TV sets that go right in your car. And then there's also some kind of online (connection). Right now, those TV sets play DVDs and give you traffic routing--so you can just look over as your driving and see where it's crowded and where it's not.

MH: Just a few more things to distract you as you plow right into the guy in front of you.

Glenn: Yeah, well this won't be as bad as a fucking cell phone. That's obnoxious. If you're going to talk to someone for a long extended period of time, pull over. Stop driving in front of me at two miles an hour, because eventually I'm going to get some kind of laser cannon and dust you.

MH: What do you think of the current state of music, especially what's being forced down our throats at radio and what's out there in pop culture?

Glenn: I think you're going to see a change. As internet radio becomes more a free thing, you're going to see people having to adapt. But I also think it's not going to stay that way forever. I think that the big companies are going to buy up all the more popular internet stations and it's going to become the way it was--you know, very controlled. So that's another thing I've been telling people, especially artists. This is a perfect time, an opportunity for you to get free of whatever you feel constrained by, because it's only going to stay this way for another year, and then it's going to be all locked up by the record companies and the major corps.

MH: That seems to be the pattern. We're hoping to fight the good fight on that.

Glenn: It's a losing cause. It's just a matter of time. That's why right now is the perfect time for everybody.

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