Danzig

Glenn Danzig’s work with The Misfits still casts a long shadow, but his own creative course in Samhain and Danzig led him further and further into pummeling heavy metal and flamboyantly Satanic lyrics. His penchant for demonic, bordering-on-cartoonish imagery—not to mention his Verotik line of sexually charged horror comics—has made him something of a living comic book character himself, like a black-leather Elvis for the goth and metal scenes. Thankfully, 2010’s Deth Red Sabaoth pared down the seeming self-parody with a beefed-up analog sound and the best collection of tuneful, crushing horror Danzig (the man and the band) has delivered in more than a decade. Naturally, he followed it up with a song for The Hangover 2 soundtrack.

Updated 05/04/2011