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

Original Tentative Track listing

(As reported 22 December 2001 on KNAC.com)

1. "Black Mass" – 4:58
2. "Kiss the Skull" – 4:11
3. "God of Light" – 3:39
4. "Angel Blake" – 3:35
5. "Wicked Pussycat" – 4:03
6. "Halo Goddess Bone" – 4:29
7. "The Coldest Sun" – 3:59
8. "Dying Seraph" - 5:20
9. "Dark Secret Side" - ?
10. "Soul Eater" - 3:41
11. "Malefical Bride of Hell" - 4:48
12. "Liberskull" – 5:45
13. "Naked Witch" – 3:55

• Early mixes of those tracks that made it onto the final cut of the album (1-8, 13, and 14) were leaked over the internet in early 2002. Tracks 9, 11, and 12 were released in 2007 on Disc 2 of The Lost Tracks of Danzig, the last with its title shortened to "Malefical". Track 10 has never been released.

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