{"product_id":"danzig_ii_lucifuge","title":"Danzig II - Lucifuge","description":"\u003cp\u003eDanzig II: Lucifuge is the second studio album by Danzig, released on June 26, 1990 on Def American Recordings and again produced by Rick Rubin. The title derives from a Latin phrase meaning \"to shun the light,\" and the word establishes the album's tonal center with precision: where the debut was praised but noted for a certain restraint and dryness, Lucifuge represented a significant creative leap — Rubin took a more hands-off approach this time, and the result is a warmer, heavier, and altogether more confident record. Robert Palmer of The New York Times called it \"one of the most accomplished and absorbing rock albums of the year\" and \"a quantum leap\" for the band, while Spin magazine would later rank it the 33rd greatest metal album of all time, with Doug Brod describing it as \"perhaps the best collection of songs on a Glenn Danzig album.\" The LP and cassette artwork was designed to evoke the first Doors album, and the US CD insert unfolds into an inverted cross — visual choices consistent with the album's deliberate theatricality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusically, Lucifuge deepens the blues-metal fusion of the debut to a degree that drew comparisons to Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson — artists long associated with the mythology of the devil's bargain — filtered through Glenn Danzig's operatic baritone, which Trouser Press described as in full \"theatrical satanic-pagan muscle-stud\" mode. The standout \"Her Black Wings\" became one of the band's signature tracks, while \"Killer Wolf\" transforms a folk song into a predatory blues fantasy, the shuffling acoustic \"I'm the One\" adds an unexpectedly stripped-down dimension, and \"Blood and Tears\" — a breakup song rendered in the style of a 1950s R\u0026amp;B ballad, complete with sweltering organ — remains one of the most disarmingly effective things Glenn Danzig ever recorded. \"Long Way Back from Hell\" and \"Snakes of Christ\" deliver the kind of four-on-the-floor hard rock that invited comparisons to AC\/DC and Motörhead, while \"Devil's Plaything\" gestures toward stadium-metal grandeur. The album peaked at number 74 on the Billboard 200 — modest commercially but significant as the record that cemented the band's cult following and is widely cited by fans as the pinnacle of Danzig's catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":53524207731002,"sku":"38030","price":36.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Indie Excl. Translucent Ruby Vinyl","offer_id":53626007355706,"sku":"38497","price":45.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-27_at_1.02.43_PM.jpeg?v=1781815969","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/danzig_ii_lucifuge","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}