For me, the work of Glenn Danzig is timeless, his brand of dark metal could slot into any decade of metal and still remain relevant. Despite his critics and being criminally underrated, the first batch of Danzig records are true heavy metal records, but this album is something even bigger. Despite sounding a little hoarse on this platter, the dark one has created a true monster, adorned in comic book cover art, and in my cd, coming free with a sticker, I never expected something so gargantuan to leap from the speakers. Melt together C.O.C., Soundgarden, Machine Head, White Zombie and Black Sabbath, and you have '6:66 Satan Child', a multi-layered cavern of deep sounds, gigantic riffs, spooky grooves and Glenn's usual grim croon and warlock wails, but this is so thick, and smothering, with Danzing himself providing the enormous serpent riffs, Joey C. smashing the skins and Lazie's bass a contorting leviathan. Danzing has lost none of his black charm or his catchy tunes but this time there's no warped blues, or satanic garage rock, this is heavy metal, 'Five Finger Crawl' reeks of Sabbath, 'Lilith' is a grungey blackness, and they keep on coming, oily, pounding robots swaying between full bloodied metal mayhem and gothic poetry. This is without doubt one of the heaviest metal albums, its imagery typical of Danzing's devilish obsession, but as 'Unspeakable' drifts into a maze of riffage, 'Cult Without A Name' jerks like an industrial phantom of icy noises and 'Firemass' and 'Thirteen' being the only two tracks to take it down a notch, you'll be astounded at Danzig's new sound, a cyber-void of isolation, industrial mayhem and voodoo verve, that takes the band into a new realm, one beyond the pitch door of Hell.
8/10
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