Glen Danzig Says A "Punk Rock Explosion Could Never Happen Nowaday's Because of Woke Bullshit".
Loudwire- Misfits definitely have some controversial songs in their catalog, and Glenn Danzig doesn't think bands would be able to get away with releasing such material now. He says a punk explosion wouldn't happen in today's culture of "woke bullshit."
Take "Last Caress" for example — the song touches on killing babies and raping mothers.
"It’s just a crazy-ass song. We would do things just to piss people off," Danzig admitted to Rolling Stone, adding that we won't have any new bands releasing songs like that because they'll "immediately get canceled."
You don't say!
"People don’t understand, because everything’s so cancel-culture, woke bullshit nowadays, but you could never have the punk explosion nowadays, because of cancel culture and woke bullshit," he continued.
"You could never have it. It would never have happened. We’re lucky it happened when it did, because it’ll never happen again. You won’t have any of those kinds of bands ever again. Everyone’s so uptight and P.C., it’s just like, 'Okay, whatever.'”
First off, "Mother" fucking rips. Always did, and always will.
Just needed to get that out of the way.
I had no idea how controversial he, and his band The Misfits (incredible name btw), were back in the day. Apparently, his songs were not well received by a lot of people back in the 90s.
But he does have a point.
There are so many things nowadays that you come across from the past and think, "man can you imagine if somebody tried to do this today?"
Movies like Porkies
or Soul Man
Everybody involved in these movies would be crucified publicly if they were to be made today. I'm actually surprised the outrage police haven't rounded them up and punished them retroactively.
Speaking of movies, did you know Danzig is now a horrorcore filmmaker and director?
Rolling Stone- “You can go to theaters in most places,” he says one day in late March. “You go to the supermarket and [can] be around a million people, but you can’t go to a theater? You can sit on an airplane right next to a motherfucker, but you can’t go to a theater socially distanced? How does that make sense?” He sums up his thoughts on Covid lockdowns by saying, “Look, I have a different opinion of the whole ‘flu’ than everybody else,” and then he refocuses his thoughts on the movie.
Much like his first film, the 2019 horror anthology Verotika, the real stars of Death Rider are its monsters and gore. But Danzig was also able to line up a notable cast for the film. The movie’s trailer shows Danny Trejo showing off a fanged smile, the title character (Final Destination’s Devon Sawa) pours molten silver down a vampire’s throat, and Glenn Danzig himself — as a character named Bad Bathory — sinks his canines into a bloody corpse. If that sounds comic-book–y, that’s because it is; Danzig, who runs his own comics publisher called Verotik, teamed with comic-book artist Simon Bisley on the storyboards for the film. Danzig also directed, wrote the movie’s screenplay, and composed its score.
(sidebar- Danny Trejo is a treasure)
Although Verotika got mostly scathing reviews, none of which bothered the unflappable Danzig, the filmmaker says the movie was enough of a financial success that he was able to secure a bigger budget for Death Rider. He’s especially excited about the cast he was able to hire. “Julian Sands is one of my favorite actors,” he says. “I mean, I could sit here for two hours naming off his credits to you, everything from The Killing Fields to Warlock to Boxing Helena. He’s the nicest guy in the world, an incredible actor. I was like, ‘Wow, I got Julian Sands in my movie and he’s digging it.’ And then we got Devon Sawa as Death Rider, Kim Director as Carmilla Joe. Danny Trejo came in and did a guest shot. The scene that he’s in with Devon is like kind of my homage to an Eli Wallach/Clint Eastwood thing.”
This guy is a wildcard.
P.s. - keep in mind. AT NO POINT, did he drink his own cum.
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