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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Respect for boundless TALENT !, March 24, 2001
I am constantly being reminded of just how versatile and disciplined Glenn Danzig really is. Since his days as front man for The Misfits, I became very interested in his theatrically dark subject matter. If you enjoy a good science fiction story you will most certainly enjoy the fantasy of Glenns' lyrics. If a good story teller in itself is not enough you also have the power of instruments both organic and electronic to support the emotions that he so eloquently wants to inculcate into your soul. This collection of poetic genius and conduction of electrical sound will definitely have a tremendous impact on your attitude and outlook of music in general. I have followed his musical efforts for many years and I believe BlackAciDevil to be one of his best.
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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Album They Didn't Want You To Hear...., February 26, 2000
blackacidevil, the Danzig album that quietly disappeared from music store shelves is back! Thank you Glenn for re-releasing it! Glenn really shows his vocal range on this one, and the music is dark and brooding as always. If your a Danzig fan, hell even if your not, this is a great CD. I can't decide with song is my favorite, there all great. And Jerry Cantrell even plays guitar on a few songs, what could be better. You decide, go buy a copy, you won't be disappointed!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Wow, what a mess! , August 27, 2007
I recently had the pleasure (or displeasure) of hearing this album in its entirety. While its not as horrid as some have said, its definitely the second worst thing Danzig has put out, then again theres also Satan's Child too (I still think I Luciferi is worse).
Alot of the reviewers say he was going for a Nin type sound on this album. I can see it with the song "Sacrifice" but for most of the album I don't. I think Glenn was definitely going for a very extreme and messed up sound on this album. I'm no expert on industrial, but some of it reminds me more of this Australian band Mental Destruction (with how processed the vocals are and how noisy some of the tracks are) than any Trent Reznor).
It begins with 7th House. Basically a 4p throwaway put in tons of distortion. That's it. Thats all I really hear with that song. It has the most banal lyrics of Danzig's career ("gonna make you come with my gun") and this song actually makes me laugh out loud (I wasn't expecting to take the album totally serious). The title track is OK, but doesn't really go anywhere. Sacrifice was the "single" of the album, and in the beginning I thought I was hearing some Depeche Mode remix song! The vocals are slightly reminiscint of Trent on this one, but "Danzigfied". I preferred the original version of "Deep" to this one (also found on the later released "Lost Tracks" and same goes for "Come to Silver" (the Lost Tracks version is so much better, but this version sounds like it'd be on some hip british organized crime movie soundtrack). The album then takes a dive, a really straight dive down. "Hand of Doom" has to be one of the most inane covers of Black Sabbath I've ever heard. I love the original though, but this version just makes it lifeless and has some stupid dismemberment/sex/whatever weirdo Glenn Danzig lyrics added on to it instead of the original lyrics. Horrible, probably the worst song of Glenn's career (hey at least its a cover and not an original!)- it just stinks to high heaven its so badly done.
Bleedangel is decent, as is "Ashes" (along with Come to Silver, the only time the album really comes close to Danzig caliber melody) but "Dont be Afraid" is pure noise and rubbish. First of all, you can't hear a word Glenn is saying on that song, and his voice doesn't even sound like a voice, it sounds like some fisher price robo whatever toy put through a distortion box!
So overall, what's the problem?
The problem isn't with experimentation. I am a big Skinny Puppy fan and love when artists take chances (Especially when its not related to trend hopping). I also don't think that Glenn was 100 percent jumping on the industrial bandwagon. Ok, he was, but at least it didn't end up sounding like some Marilyn Manson sounding drivel. The album is VERY noisy and messed up (especially this second version) and it is not some pop industrial rock album.
Another problem is that the songs don't really go anywhere. Now Industrial isn't always known for its structure (in fact I don't know of many songs from Throbbing Gristle's First Annual Report that have much of a "Structure" other than "United"), but it is known for its pushing the envelope and taking the listener to another cold, alien harsh reality. At least the best beat oriented "industrial" is (Coil, Skinny Puppy, etc).
Its not the fact that its noisy, but the fact that the noise just ends up being noise, unlike a lot of artists that are probably "noisier"!
Also, and perhaps the most important fact of all, is that when a name and logo and cover art says "Danzig" we as fans expect to hear MELODY. Whether it'd be the melody of "Hyrbrid Moments" or "Until You Call on the Dark", fans of Danzig were partly that way because of the tendency for his songs to get stuck in ones head for days, and maybe decades.
I know Danzig realized the "mistake" of this album privately (since he never did an album like this again), but of course would never fess up to it. He made an excuse that he was trying to go back to the "experimentation of Samhain" but he ended up making a mockery of himself in the process. Samhain were about melody and a cold, grim atmosphere, not just sheets of sampled noises put randomly on an album along with some pseudo satanic sex murder lyrical rubbish. I love Glenn, but this is definitely a mistake.
Could it have ever been good? The question has been posed before, and I would say "yes". I think that Glenn could've brought some Black Aria type atmosphere to the process, not effect his vocals as much, and bring some substance to the table as well as better songwriting and melody, even with the mayhem. Then it could've worked almost as well as Samhain did. Now I have to commend Glenn once again for taking a chance. I just think he could've released it as a side project, and tried to eliminate his half hearted attempts at pleasing his fanbase with the name and presentation. He could've tightened up the song writing, or made it more dense and even more extreme, taking away all pretense that its some type of bandwagon jumping album. Ironically, by having some of his "traditional Danzig" trappings, he may have done more damage because if it would've been that type of side project I just spoke of, he wouldn't have had to fake those trappings and do them half-heartedly and in the process made a "Danzig" album. I rest my case.
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