To me, Glenn Danzig's post-Misfits career has five definitive songs: ‘Mother’, ‘Twist of Cain’, ‘Her Black Wings’, ‘How The Gods Kill’, and ‘Can't Speak’. These five songs are perfect representations of the Danzig brand: simple, heavy, and universally engaging with Glen's trademark evil Elvis/Jim Morrison vocals. Those five tunes also revealed an artist willing to take melodic and stylistic chances.

Sadly, none of these positives are evident on his 2010 "Deth Red Sabaoth" release. Not one. On a straight listen, it wasn't until Track 8, ‘Night Star Hel’, that I found something head-nod-worthy, but then even that song ends with an overly long, tedious instrumental riff. The following song is part 1 of a ‘Pyre of Souls’ duo, featuring vocals but no lyrics over a simple folk-informed cycle. Sounds promising, but the idea is more interesting than the delivery. Most of the ideas on "Deth Red Sabaoth" should either be throwaways or need significantly more development, but no. There they are, churning away 3-to-5 minutes at a turn, reminding us only vaguely of Danzig songs from better days.

The poor sound quality also needs to be addressed. I'd been pre-warned, but I still wasn't prepared for this. The drums are too loud, the guitars are either drowned, too thin, or too muddy to be discernible. Glenn sounds fine, but his vocals aren't enough.

Still, I'm not sure what anyone involved in this production could have been thinking. Between the possibly-written-in-10-minutes songs and the shoddy sound, I'd almost guess (hope) that someone popped a blank cassette into a boombox in Glen's basement, recorded a Danzig practice session, and called it an album.

Anyway. Go back to the first paragraph and consider my five selections for the definitive Danzig songs. If you strongly disagree with my choices, then maybe your connection to Glenn Danzig's sideburns is different than mine, and maybe you'll get more out of "Deth Red Sabaoth" than I did. Don't get me wrong; I am cool with Danzig. Throw in his punk origins, his classical dabblings, and his comic book ventures, and you have a pretty impressive, diverse creative resume. I just don't think we got his best effort here.