Interviewer: Why is it that on the first four Danzig albums you had the same line up and since then it changed every time.

GD: When Rick and I started Danzig it was intended to have a new line-up with every new record. That way we wanted to keep it fresh. After the original band broke up I went back to the original idea and approached new musicians for each record. Normally auditions take place then, but with a professional like Tommy Victor off course it wasn’t necessary. I called him up and asked if he wanted to work on the new record and tour. He directly reacted with enthusiasm. We already worked together before. Tommy played guitar for Danzig on the whole Blackacidevil tour and we later met again during the tour for I Luciferi. Prong was our support act back then in the US.

Interviewer: The careful selection of the musicians isn’t the only important aspect of Danzig. The lyrics also take a prominent place. There are many rumors about Satanism on that level.

GD: I think many people have prejudices about my lyrics. To me it’s definitely not purely Satanism. I write about what I wanna write about and to others it may be a bit on the dark side. A lot of the times it’s about freedom of speech, freedom of intellect and so on. If people think that’s Satanic, that’s their problem. I won’t change my way of writing anyway. There’s nothing more boring then someone who says what I should write, what I should or shouldn’t say.

Interviewer: The new album Circle Of Snakes is more metal than most of the previous work, and it was intended that way. But to Glenn, the world doesn’t end at blasting drums, pumping bass and a guitar wall you barely can look over. The 1993 published Black Aria record is a shining example of this.

GD: Black Aria is classical music, which came out under the name Glenn Danzig and as a solo effort. You should see it separated from what comes out under the name Danzig. The next few years I’d like to do some different things. Black Aria II has been written for about 4 years now, but I never had the time to record the album. That’s something I finally wanna do. Furthermore, from every Danzig album that came out, there were tracks that didn’t make it to the records. I want to remix those tracks and put them out probably some time next year under the name ‘The Lost Danzig Tracks’ or something like that. Also, there have been plans to make a dark blues record, I’ll direct my first movie and I hope to finally get some sleep.

Interviewer: Writing stories for comics. Undoubtedly, there are readers who don’t know Glenn does this for a few years and has his own publishing company: Verotik. Although these books have a lower rank in comparison to music, there is talk of a serious project with the obvious inspiration.

GD: I like good comics. It’s just that the quality is usually a let down. With Verotik we want to make the comic industry more adult oriented and I think we succeeded to open the eyes of at least some people. But in general there are still way too much retarded comics.

Interviewer: What happened at the Tuba City show?

GD: Actually I don’t wanna talk about it so it doesn’t blow up, but in America there is a big problem with people who film push ups with their cameras to take it to court. It wasn’t more than that.

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