Danzig

Wed., Oct. 24, 8 p.m., $28-$30, with Gorgeous Frankenstein and Doom Riders, Electric Factory, Seventh and Willow streets, 215-336-2000, www.livenation.com.

by A.D. Amorosi

metal

Even though I find 2002's 777: I Luciferi to be an icon of wickedness, a truly totemic watershed of evil noisemaking — the Citizen Kane of slick Black Mass rock, really — doesn't mean Glenn Danzig should stop trying. No, no. If we keep using Orson Welles to compare the ex-Misfit/sometime Samhain, then certainly 2004's Circle of Snakes is Danzig's freakishly noirish Lady of Shanghai. And Black Aria records I and II — his dark but preposterously silly classical albums? Let's call their flawed brilliance his Magnificent Ambersons. That leaves his recently released The Lost Tracks of Danzig package of tracks from 1988-2004 as his Touch of Evil and Macbeth all rolled into one bunch of ghoulish, garish rarities and shadowy notions. Boo to that.

Wed., Oct. 24, 8 p.m., $28-$30, with Gorgeous Frankenstein and Doom Riders, Electric Factory, Seventh and Willow streets, 215-336-2000, www.livenation.com.