It's been nearly 20 years since Danzig unleashed its classic and highly unholy debut album unto the world. In that time, the band's leader (Dare we speak his name?) has continued growing the legend that already existed when he disbanded Samhain and moved to higher artistic ground with this outfit. In that time, he's amassed a heavy collection of unreleased tracks and many of those are now available on this two-CD set.
Not much has gone on in the way of cleanup: "Pain Is Like An Animal" and "Angel Of The Seventh Dawn," for instance, sound like fully-realized songs but you they don't quite sound like all the production bells and whistles have fallen in place. Just rough enough to stand out from tracks that wound up on official albums, the tunes contained here also retain and warts-and-all feel. Not everything, you see, in Glenn's vault was a gem. The "Less Than Zero"-esque "Cold, Cold Rain" is gorgeous in its incompleteness; the cover of T. Rex's "Buick McCane" is appropriately rough and sounds more like something the band whipped up at soundcheck and just happened to roll tape on. (It's cool, so chill, yo.) Others, such as "When Death Had No Name" and "White Devil Rise" could have easily taken a place beside "Mother," "Twist Of Cain" or anything from the second band outing; "Come To Silver," a track that apparently made its way to Johnny Cash's tape deck at some point, is of particular interest, rendered here with spooky accuracy and haunting effect.
That's just the first disc, of course, as the second has numerous treats, including the psychedelic "Crawl Across Your Killing Floor," the thoroughly brutal "I Know You Lie" and the eerie (A redundancy?) "Bound By Blood" and the crunch chord mother "Soul Eater." For anyone who missed out on the latter portion of Danzig's career, the second disc will certainly offer its share of surprises and instill regrets. Lost Tracks probably isn't for the uninitiated but it is great fun and filled with surprises, even for those who've remained faithful all along.
Track Listing
Disc One
1. Pain Is Like An Animal
2. When Death Had No Name
3. Angel Of The Seventh Dawn
4. You Should Be Dying
5. Cold, Cold Rain
6. Buick McKane
7. When Death Had No Name
8. Satan's Crucifixion
9. White Devil Rise
10. Come To Silver
11. Deep
12. Warlok
Disc Two
1. Lick The Blood Off My Hands
2. Crawl Across Your Killing Floor
3. I Know You Lie
4. Caught In My Eye
5. Cat People
6. Bound By Blood
7. Who Claims The Soulless
8. Malefical
9. Soul Eater
10. Dying Seraph
11. Lady Lucifera
12. Under Belly Of The Beast
13. Unspeakable Shango Mix
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