Danzig News

A few Saturdays ago, Rocks Off was in the grocery store a few blocks from our house, slumming around Oak Forest wearing sandals and an old Misfits T-shirt when a group of junior-high punk rockers approached and applauded us for our good taste.

The most horrific thing to come out of Glenn Danzig's affiliation with the horror-hardcore group he founded were his litigious battles with bassist Jerry Only.

The Misfits show Saturday night, the first in a two-night sold out gig at the soon to be closed Key Club, left no room for wallowing in original lead singer Glenn Danzig's absence.

Metalocalypse Tour with Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire Nov. 21, 2009 San Jose State Event Center Better than: Getting your ass whupped by Glenn Danzig's cartoon twin.

During his time in the seminal hardcore band the Misfits, vocalist Glenn Danzig displayed a fascination with outlandish, graphic, often gory imagery; in forming the more heavy metal-oriented band Samhain, Danzig's lyrics delved into typical metal subject matter, but took the concept of darkness to an extreme.

"I heard you were having a drought, so I brought you the black clouds of Danzig weather," announced Lodi, N.J.'s spookiest Hair Club for Men candidate Glenn Danzig Sunday night.

This weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin was a tale of two days: Saturday's Sun Sun Sun Fest, with its 80-degree temperatures, and Sunday's Wet Wet Wet Fest, with sporadically heavy downpours challenging the fortitude of festivalgoers.

"Formed over twenty years ago and having not played Austin in fifteen or so years, Danzig closed Fun Fun Fun Fest with a bang.

The skull is omnipresent, stenciled and scrawled everywhere from Rio's favela hellscapes to Lodi, N.J.'s suburban sprawl.

Robbie Williams has pulled out of his scheduled performance at next week's MTV Europe Music Awards, citing a scheduling conflict.

The Witch Is Back The first time "Mosh" heard from - or of - Skeletonwitch was summer 2007.

Legendary hard rock drummer Chuck Biscuits , whose lengthy resume includes stints in such flagship underground acts as Black Flag and Social Distortion , appears to have been the victim of a death hoax involving a Facebook page and several months' worth of correspondence from someone claiming to be Chuck .

Ex-Danzig Drummer Still Alive Posted by Mitch Michaels on 10.30.2009 Chuck Biscuits just a part of an internet hoax... The death of Chuck Biscuits, the classic-era Danzig drummer who also played with Black Flag and Social Distortion, appears to have all been a part of an internet hoax.

The founder of Vancouver punk group D.O.A. says that his former drummer, Chuck Biscuits, is alive and well and Internet reports of his death are part of a "cruel hoax." Joe Keithley told The Canadian Press on Friday that the drummer's brother contacted him and confirmed that Biscuits is indeed alive.

Former Black Flag, Danzig and Social Distortion drummer Chuck Biscuits is alive and it looks like reports of his death from throat cancer were part of an email hoax.

Old-fashioned pipe organs playing minor-key melodies have their place, but let's just admit that spending All Hallow's Eve listening to "The Monster Mash" is no way to party.

Danzig playing Austin & NJ Danzig O' Lantern It's been a long time since Chuck Biscuits played drums for Danzig , but his sad passing reminded me that Danzig has some shows coming up.

Chuck Biscuits, a British Columbia-born punk drummer who played with Danzig, Social Distortion and other bands has died.

The leaves are changing, the temperature is dropping, costume stores are popping up everywhere and Glenn Danzig rules your iPod.

At its '80s peak, hardcore was a lot of things: controversial, confrontational, positive, nihilistic, pointed, and cathartic.