Deth Red Sabaoth
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| Studio album by Danzig | ||||
| Released | June 22, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2008–2010 | |||
| Studio | Sunset Lodge, Los Angeles Paramount Studios, Hollywood |
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| Genre | Heavy metal, gothic metal, doom metal, blues rock | |||
| Length | 52:04 | |||
| Label | Evilive/The End Records | |||
| Producer | Glenn Danzig | |||
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| About.com |   |
| Allmusic |  |
| The A.V. Club | B |
| Brave Words |    |
| College Music Journal | (favorable) |
| Fearnet | (favorable) |
| Metal Hammer | |
| Revolver | |
| Rock Hard | |
| Ultimate Guitar | (8.3/10) |
Deth Red Sabaoth is the ninth studio album by Danzig, released on June 22, 2010 through Evilive/The End Records.Deth Red Sabaoth marked Danzig’s highest-charting album since the release of Danzig 4 in 1994.
Nearly two years in production, Deth Red Sabaoth is the first release of new Danzig studio material in six years, since 2004's Circle of Snakes. However, in these six years, frontman Glenn Danzig had released his second solo album, entitled Black Aria II, in 2006, while Danzig (the band) released a compilation of previously unreleased material, entitled The Lost Tracks of Danzig, in 2007.
For Deth Red Sabaoth, Danzig took a different approach to recording: “I wanted to have an organic sound, bigger and thicker, so I went out and bought some 1970s Kustom tuck ’n’ roll bass amps to play some of the guitar parts through. You’ll hear real reverb, real tremolo on this album, which sounds completely different than the stuff that's done with computer chips.”
Glenn Danzig produced the album himself, recorded most of the bass tracks, and played drums on the song "Black Candy", his first drumming credit since select tracks on his former band Samhain's 1986 album November-Coming-Fire.
Deth Red Sabaoth is the first studio album to feature drummer Johnny Kelly (who once joined Danzig during their 2002-2003 tour, but became a full-time member in 2005). It is also the second Danzig album to feature Tommy Victor on guitar. Bassist Steve Zing (who joined the touring band in 2006) does not appear on the album, as bass guitar duties were handled by Glenn Danzig and Tommy Victor.
Opening track "Hammer of the Gods" makes reference to Ragnarök, a great battle in Norse mythology.
When asked about various proposed meanings of the song "Black Candy", Glenn Danzig responded “It’s a metaphor for so many different things so they could be right and they could be wrong. But it is about a lot of different things, not just one thing.”
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