{"id":10042572,"date":"2025-10-29T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/?p=10042572"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:19:00","slug":"horror-business-70-greatest-songs-of-glenn-danzig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/2025\/10\/29\/horror-business-70-greatest-songs-of-glenn-danzig\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Business: The 70 greatest songs of Glenn Danzig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editor’s Note<\/strong>: This feature originally ran back in June for Glenn Danzig’s 70th birthday (hence the number of songs), but we’re republishing it again in honor of Halloween and the spooky season. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glenn Danzig<\/strong> has accomplished quite a bit in his 70 years since he was born a future longhair named Glenn Allen Anzalone in the New Jersey suburb of Lodi. The highlights include pioneering an entire genre known as horror punk with a band having one of the coolest names in history: Misfits. Before that group even had the chance to gain a foothold, he broke them up and moved forward with a goth\/deathrock hybrid in Samhain, which then evolved into his eponymous outfit that exists to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The iconography of his various bands is just as recognizable as the music, if not more, and who cares if he surreptitiously lifted the logos from other sources before Wikimedia Commons was created? The man is a genius because he believes in everything he writes about, be it killer wolfs (his spelling \u2013 not ours), archangels, and the devil — lots of the devil and the various monikers by which he goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And because he takes it so seriously, we do too. That\u2019s why Vanyaland<\/em> has decided that on the occasion of his seven-decade run here on this earth, we\u2019d celebrate by ranking Glenn Danzig\u2019s 70 best songs. Curated by senior writer Michael Christopher and editor-in-chief Michael O’Connor Marotta, it\u2019s all here; every band he started, the deep cuts, the blackest of the black. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

70. ‘Killer Wolf’<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A few years into a solo run and several after the breakup of the Misfits, Danzig’s sophomore 1990 album Lucifuge<\/em> leaned heavily into blues territory, and “Killer Wolf” provides perhaps the greatest distance from where he was creatively a decade prior. Glenn told Faces<\/em> Magazine that “Killer Wolf” is “my version of an old blues song about a guy who wolfs around the door of every girl in town.” We’re gonna have to look the other way on some of the lyrics here, too, but that’s a common cause when revisiting some of these works. — Michael O’Connor Marotta <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n