Danzig is about to embark on a series of shows on the U.S. West Coast with support from Down, Abbath and Cro-Mags. In a new interview with Full Metal Jackie, singer Glenn Danzig talked about his future as it pertains to both touring and recording.
“I don’t really like going on tour,” he said. “As you can see, I’m only doing six shows. So just trying to get me to go and do a bunch of shows — I don’t mind doing a one-off here or there or whatever, but doing a bunch of shows, riding around on the bus, I’ve said it before … I know that we had to make up a Phoenix show last time that had to get canceled because we there was a bus shortage. And so basically in order to get a bus, we had to move all our first dates on the tour to the end of the tour. And there wasn’t an available venue in Phoenix that time period. We’ll make up the Phoenix show. And then we had a lot of fans asking why we haven’t come up to the big Northwest and San Francisco. So we’re trying to make that up. And it’ll be it for a while.”
Danzig talked about how the cost of touring is making things difficult for bands at all levels. “Well, everything’s more expensive,” he said. “The last time I went out — I think it was 2022 or 2023, again just a handful of shows — and prices on buses and gas had just gone way up. And then this last time we went out in 2023, they went up three times what we normally pay. And this time it’s even crazier. So, I think it’s also become really hard for a lot of bands to go out there and tour. I’ve said it before — a young band just going out there, they would have to go out in a van, well, kind of how we did back in the day with Danzig and Samhain and the Misfits. I mean, we would go out in a van. It was all we could afford.”
He was then asked about the possibility of new Danzig music, and for someone who has released a fairly steady stream of new material throughout his career, his answer was surprisingly “No.”
He explained: “The whole music thing and recording and everything, it’s just changed dramatically where people really don’t buy physical product anymore. They just wanna download it for free online. So there’s really no incentive to new music, unless I’m in the studio and I do something and I wanna give it away for free to everybody. I don’t know if that’s a great business model.”
“I don’t see the music industry changing at all. So I don’t know if I’m ever gonna record again, at least Danzig stuff. Maybe at some point. I don’t know right now.”
