Danzig Prefers George Bush

www.Norran.se
April 2004

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Glenn Danzig usually is not talking about politics and tries to focus on his music and his band named DANZIG. But Glenn still has straight answers on who he’d like to see in the White House after the presidential election this autumn. George W. Bush, is the quick answer.

He has been called "The Godfather of the dark metalmusic" or "Evil Elvis". No matter what, most of the metal fans would probably call him one of the genre’s front figures. He was a front figure in The Misfits, and opposite to those punkbands at that time he didn’t wrote about politics, instead he was inspired by “b-horror movies” and strange things from outer space. After The Misfits broke up 1983 he started the little bit more metal-inspired punk band named “Samhain”, as 1987 became Danzig, since then Glenn has been the ruler of his band with an iron hand and with dark voice.

He’s now on a visit in Sweden marketing a new album – the 8th album in order – It's supposed to be released in mid July.

But no matter he usually doesn't like talking about politics, but there no problem getting him to talk about this subject. He prefers George W. Bush above the presidential candidate John Kerry. It’s all because the former president Bill Clinton and his government along with the vice president’s wife Tipper Gore in the 90’s began fighting fiercely against the contents of music lyrics. And those violent and erotic adult comics Glenn Danzig published with his comic publishing company Verotik, didn’t make them happy either.

Clinton did send the FBI on me because he and the democrats were very scared about what I’d said and what I’d done. Glenn also claims that the liberal front in the party belongs to the past and now the democrats are just a party of hypocrisy.

Glenn Danzig describes the new album as a combination of different things: What Danzig have done, What the band are doing now and how it’s going to sound in the future.

- It’s more heavy guitars, more depressed and more ”doomey”.
It’s a very, very dark record, both in the music and in the lyrics.
I’ve never said that about our previous records.

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