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- Black Laden Crown is Danzig’s strongest album in some time, because he’s mostly built it around his own limitations. Many of the song here are on the slower end of the metal-blues he pioneered with his first three records, and his aged croon needs that slack.
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May 26, 2017 · Hot on the heels of last year’s feverishly celebrated Misfits reunion, Glenn Danzig returns with his first album of all-new material in seven years. 2015 saw him stumble into self-parodic territory with his grimace-inducing covers collection, Skeletons.
- Yes Black Laden Crown Has Its Fair Share of Production Issues
- In What World Has Glenn Danzig Produced What You Would Call A Perfect Album?
- Black Laden Crown‘S Issues May Have More to Do with Casual Fans Than itself.
Guitars have zero mids, drums are dry as a decade old dead body in the dessert and everything is inconsistently mixed. More often than not, Danzig sounds more like a drunk Michael Rooker doing karaoke to The Doors than his former Misfits/Samhain days. And of course, said vocals are brutally close in the mix. But isn’t this what we’ve come to expect...
If you go back to the first 4 Danzig albums (the ones with Rick Rubin at the helm) you’ll find, none of them have fantastic production. As gifted as Rubin was in his prime, nothing stands out as timeless or remotely interesting. When comparing those albums to other hard rock releases of the time, nothing rises above average. While on the subject, h...
Danzig has produced his own releases since 1996, and while he may not be a master in the producer’s chair, he’s been at it enough to do exactly what he wants. If he wants his vocals to be front and center and guitars down the street, he can do that. It’s his band. This still doesn’t give Black Laden Crowna pass, or any album for that matter. If it’...
May 31, 2017 · In spite of a predictably poor sound mix – Glenn has insisted on self-producing his albums since '96's Blackacidevil – Black Laden Crown largely satisfies on the strength of a solid first...
May 22, 2017 · Black Laden Crown is a much better album than I expected at this point in Danzig’s career. It’s consistently good, at times even great and gets its hooks deeper in your flesh with every spin. It can’t equal the early classics, but it can sit aside Deth Red as a respectable catalog capstone after so much mid-period pablum.
May 14, 2017 · Some of the covers weren’t bad, but most just weren’t good at all. Danzig are back with the 10threlease of original material entitled Black Laden Crown, and it’s a real mixed bag for me. First the Good: Glenn himself sounds in tip top shape.
Mar 24, 2017 · Black Laden Crown is Danzig’s strongest album in some time, because he’s mostly built it around his own limitations. Full Review. AllMusic. It marks a return to the brooding, largely midtempo, blues-based biker horror jams of yore, with a smattering of doomy, Samhain-era malevolence tossed in for good measure. Full Review.
