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Danzig 3: How The Gods Kill

Danzig - Danzig 3: How The Gods Kill Audio CD

A fair review of the Danzig "Danzig 3: How The Gods Kill" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Danzig reviews here, or go back to the Danzig tabs.

Band: Danzig
Title: Danzig 3: How The Gods Kill
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Release Date: 1998-09-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Godless 2: Anything 3: Bodies 4: How the Gods Kill 5: Dirty Black Summer 6: Left Hand Black 7: Heart of the Devil 8: Sistinas 9: Do You Wear the Mark 10: When the Dying Calls

Happy Birthday, Glenn Danzig! This one will make your holidays a "dirty, black summer"
The first Danzig album was straightforward classic hard rock/ early heavy metal-sounding. "Danzig 3: How The Gods Kill" is the next step after "Danzig 2: Lucifuge", and even a bigger step from "Danzig 1". "Danzig 2" was definitely more diverse, although it delved into Danzig's blues-metal sound. "How The Gods Kill" goes further into that territory, although it adds more of a doom-metal sound, similar to early Black Sabbath although with the volume and power cranked way up!

"Godless" is the open, seven-minute doom-metal masterpiece. It combines fast sections with slower, sludgier, heavier sections. Glenn's dark lyrics and passionate vocals wail throughout the song, and some blazing guitar soloing is featured, as well.
"Bodies": A faster song in B-minor which makes for some great guitar melodies. I also love the way Glenn Danzig sings "Bod-i-i-e-e-es!".
"How The Gods Kill": A beautiful slow song that goes between clean guitar lines and powerful, heavy guitar riffs, with some of Glenn's most powerful vocal soloing throughout. Definitely one of Danzig's best songs ever.
"Dirty Black Summer": Not as dark as "How The Gods Kill", but definitely as good. This song is a bit faster with a heavy drumbeat, experimental, psychedelic guitar riffs combined with heavier guitar riffs a little bit similar to "Twist of Cain". This one is a very anthemic and powerful song!
"Sistinas": A laid-back, almost balladic psychedelic-rock song with a very surreal, sunset-y feel to it. A definitely classic!

The other songs are all quite good too, aside "Heart of the Devil", which is a little too slow and repetitive. However, "Danzig 3: How The Gods Kill" is yet another step forward, adding doom-metal, psychedelic and even bluesier touches to Danzig's sound. This is definitely a great album and a Danzig essential. Before going, I want to wish Glenn Danzig a happy 53rd birthday! Thanks for the time, and peace.

"Do You Wear the Mark"?
The sound that he forges here is even more Sabbatherian than his previous album while sounding very little like it. Third album from Gothic Blues Metal act Danzig is another first rate release.

After the brutal and dark, "Lucifuge", Danzig follows that classic up with an album that is nearly as good and certainly as black.

The tracks on this album may feature more Danzig anthems than about any album he ever made, which may seem surprising considering that quite a few camps believe his best album to be the self titled. This album however features a more refined sound and is alot more hooky, not neccesarily accesible, but memorable.

Tracks go from brooding melodic to straight out riffsters. The first track "Godless" is a great deep epic blues track with one of the most palptable senses of brooding evil that the man had ever wrote.

"Anything" is soft for the most part until an awesome electric guitar finale and a similar structure is used for the title cut, whose jumps from soft to heavy are quite proggy and creepy, making that one of the band's most atmospheric tracks.

"Bodies" is a classic track as is "When the Dying Calls", which are both nice pieces of darkly written Blues Metal. "Sistinas" is one of his most well written ballads offering an etheral quality that is more fully explored on the next album.

"Dirty Black Summer" was the single and is the third Danzig song to reuse the "Twist of Cain" riff. Still, this one's alot of fun and one of the best driving songs that the band made. Still, a radio staple.

"Left Hand Black" is probally the best riff on the album and besides the title track, possibly the stand out track.
Lots of Sabbath influence in this one and especially on "Do You wear the Mark?" which borrows(somewhat) Tony Iommi's riff for "Into the Void", one of the greatest Metal songs ever written. This song works as almost an homage to why so many of us(Danzig included) enjoys this sort of music.

The songs are mainly alot more complex in structure than the previous album, a foretelling of things to come on that fourth album, but the sound forged here is one of the best of early 90s Heavy Metal.

Some in the know, may be so quick as to call this the best release that the band had made and certainly that's a debateable point, but not entirely unwarranted. This is a solid release and one of my personal favorite albums.
Esential buy for the Doom/Goth Metal collector.

Danzig's Best Album??
This album is very dark, and heavy at times, but also contains that bluesy feel that Danzig 1 - 3 all do. I don't know if this is Danzig's best album, but it is certainly very close. Danzig's voice may have very well been in it's prime at this point, he is just amazing on this album. I am a huge fan of all Danzig material, The Misfits, Samhain, and of course Danzig, and this is definitely one of the best works of his career. The band is incredible as well, Eerie Von is a great bassist, John Christ is an incredible guitar player, and Chuck Buscuits is one of the best drummers I've ever heard. So, this is by no means a Danzig solo project, without his incredibly talented bandmates, it would not be so great. As Danzig 5-9 showed! Now to the album, this album's music is incredibly varied, it is very heavy at times, very dark at times, very bluesy at times, and even has a true romantic ballad in Sistinas. Godless starts the album off and is a very, very dark song, that starts slow and builds and builds until the end. It is a truly amazing song, definitely one of the best Danzig songs ever. Anything is a beautiful song, that isn't quite as dark as most of others on the album, but is no less great, this track has an insane melody to it. Bodies is a hard rock - blues song, very bluesy, with a hard driving bass line throughout, very good song. How The Gods Kill is another of the best songs by Danzig ever, incredible lyrics, vocals, and music, possibly the best song by Danzig ever, truly amazing! Dirty Black Summer is a heavy riff orientated song, with a bit of that bluesy feel, very very cool song. Left Hand Black is just a straight up old school metal song, awesome riffs, very energizing song, really pumps you up. Heart of the Devil is another very hard rock - blues song, a very good song. Sistinas is a romantic ballad about Danzig losing a girlfriend, and the lyrics are very depressing and sad, and anyone who has ever lost a girl they love will completely relate to it. Do You Wear the Mark is another heavy metal track like Left Hand Black, and like that track it is very energizing and the lyrics once again are very dark, and Satanic??. . . maybe. Last song is When the Dying Calls, and it is another bluesy song, very good, but probably the weakest on the album in my opinion. Overall, this may be Danzig's best album of all time, almost all fans that I have talked to are in agreement that it is at least one of his best. If you love Danzig 1 to 2 or Samhain, I would definitely recommend this. If you love hard rock, blues, alternative rock, or heavy metal, I would certainly recommend to you as well. Pick this album up guy!!.

From the master of the doomy blues, Danzig delivers again!

"Dirty Black Summer" has a superb opening and continues on with a great beat and chorus. This is one of the best albums by far from the band Danzig in terms of creativity, guitarwork, vocals, and sheer diversity. The title track "How the gods kills" have some very eerie guitar sounds and is a rolling, slow but not stopping epic song that is perhaps the most subtle by the band, it's not to gloomy but extremely dreamy sounding at times. Just when you thought it might get slower, we look at the track that the album starts with in "Godless". This song has varied guitar structure to it, almost being two songs in one and giving us an almost "prog" themed track that breaks into different beats and ryhyms throughout, making it all the more enjoyable. With III: How the gods kill, Danzig again shows us how to make something that isn't specific to any kind of genre of musical creativity but their own.

MORE OF THE SAME GREATNESS!!
Getting DARKER AND DARKER. BLACKER THAN COAL AND HAKEEM!!

DANZIG WAS sure one dark mother fukk!!

All of the song's rule. . ''DITY BLACK SUMMER'' though is one of the BEST METAL METAL song's EVER though!!! GOTTA LOVE THIS SONG!!!. . . . ''UHHH'' haha!!

''HEART OF THE DEVIL'' is rather creepey even!! I dont know why either. . maybe SATAN sat in on those vocal session's. . who know's? maybe DANZING doesent either!!

John Christ' SOLO's this time are very ERIE!! some of the most chilling lead's I have ever heard. . not as good as PARADISE LOT's ''GOTHIC'' but near that vibe. . get it?!

MANDATORY!!!!!

''YOU LEAVE ME GODLESSSSSS. . ''.

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