I Luciferi

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Danzig 777: I Luciferi (see Notes below for pronunciation) is the seventh album from Danzig. It was released in 2002 on Glenn Danzig's Evilive Records label and distributed by Spitfire Records. Danzig stated that this album was the last in a series of seven numbered albums, each with its own general concept. Early press releases for the album reveal that its working title was Danzig 7: Kiss the Skull. Prior to its May 2002 release, rough mixes of ten tracks were distributed over the internet with this alternate title.

Over the months following the tour for this album, each of the other the band members quit to pursue other projects. Most notably, Joey Castillo joined Queens of the Stone Age.

Track listing

1. "Unendlich" – 1:51
2. "Black Mass" – 4:58
3. "Wicked Pussycat" – 4:03
4. "God of Light" – 3:39
5. "Liberskull" – 5:45
6. "Dead Inside" – 5:16
7. "Kiss the Skull" – 4:11
8. "I Luciferi" – 3:15
9. "Naked Witch" – 3:55
10. "Angel Blake" – 3:35
11. "The Coldest Sun" – 3:59
12. "Halo Goddess Bone" – 4:29
13. "Without Light, I Am" – 5:32

All songs written by Glenn Danzig.

Credits

• Joey C. – drums
• Glenn Danzig – vocals, guitar, keyboards
• Howie Pyro – bass guitar
• Todd Youth – guitar

Notes

• In a 2002 interview with Juliya Chernetsky on Fuse TV's Uranium show, Glenn Danzig said that the correct pronunciation of the album title is [ee] [loo-suh-fair-ahy] (/i/ /lu sə fər aI/ according to the International Phonetic Alphabet); that is, the first i rhymes with see, while the last rhymes with eye. This corresponds to Danzig's pronunciation of the word in the chorus of the title track.

• The CD booklet contains a quotation from Celsus, a second-centruy AD opponent of Christianity: "They worship neither a god nor even a demon, but a dead man!"

• The lyric sheet for the song "Black Mass" contains a misprint: "Asan un Nefer". The correct lyric is "Asar-un-Nefer" ("Myself Made Perfect"), an epithet of the Egyptian god Osiris used especially in the Thelemic "Bornless Ritual". Earlier in the song, Danzig's lyrics refer to "the Bornless One".

• The lyrics for "Wicked Pussycat" contain an omission. Several internet lyric sheets fill the gap with the line, "my fall is starting". The correct lyric is actually "five-pointed star-tail": as the lyric is repeated at one point in the video for the song, the camera focuses on the tail of a girl's cat costume; the end of the tail is a pentagram.

References

• [1] The Bornless Ritual