Danzig II: Lucifuge

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Danzig II: Lucifuge
Danzig II: Lucifuge cover
Studio album by Danzig
Released June 1990
Recorded 1989-90
Genre Heavy metal
Length 49:22
Label Def American Recordings
Producer(s) Rick Rubin
Professional reviews
Danzig chronology
Danzig
(1988)
Danzig II: Lucifuge
(1990)
Danzig III: How the Gods Kill
(1992)


Danzig II: Lucifuge is the second album by Danzig. It was released in 1990 on Def American Recordings and was reissued in the USA and UK in 1998 by Def American's successor, American Recordings.

Early pressings of the CD include a booklet that unfolds into an inverted cross. Most formats feature the original full-color "faces" album cover: these include the 12" vinyl LP, the audio cassette, and the original pressings of the European and Japanese CD. The most widely distributed format, the North American CD, features the alternate "chest/cross" album cover, a cropped black-and-white closeup of the photograph found on the back of the LP sleeve and on the interior of all formats. All CD releases feature the "faces" picture on the rear of the CD tray.

Newer American Recordings pressings have a "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" label printed on the booklet artwork; previously this had been a sticker on the outer cellophane wrapping.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

LP sleeve (back)
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LP sleeve (back)
  1. "Long Way Back from Hell"
  2. "Snakes of Christ"
  3. "Killer Wolf"
  4. "Tired of Being Alive"
  5. "I'm the One"
  6. "Her Black Wings"
  7. "Devil's Plaything"
  8. "777"
North American CD cover
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North American CD cover
  1. "Blood and Tears"
  2. "Girl"
  3. "Pain in the World"

All songs written by Glenn Danzig.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

  • Producer: Rick Rubin
  • Engineers: Dave Bianco, Sylvia Massy, Brendon O'Brien, Martin Schmelze, Jim Scott

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1990 The Billboard 200 74

[edit] Miscellanea

  • The title "Lucifuge" is the imperative form of the Latin compound verb lucifugere, from 'lux' (light) + 'fugere' (to flee), which means "to flee or shun the light". If it is to be taken literally, lucifuge is thus a command: "shun the light" or "flee from the light" (or logically, "seek darkness").
  • The "faces" album cover is clearly inspired by the album cover of the debut album by The Doors. Reasoning for this could be attributed to Jim Morrison's inspiration of Glenn Danzig.
  • Glenn Danzig said that the song "Killer Wolf" is his version of an old blues song "about a guy who wolfs around the door of every girl in town". It is unknown whether any such previous song existed, or whether Danzig merely meant that he composed an original song in the style of old blues. Despite its title, the 1954 song "I'm the Wolf" bears little resemblance to the 1990 Danzig song, although Danzig has often credited its composer and singer, Howlin' Wolf, as a major influence.
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