In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Glenn Danzig talks about Danzig’s long-awaited upcoming covers record, Skeletons. The record features the "Mother" singer's touch on songs by Black Sabbath, ZZ Top, The Troggs, The Everly Brothers and others. It's one of many projects he's been working on, including an EP of all Elvis Presley covers, a new LP of Danzig originals and his recently released Danzig Legacy film, but at the moment it's the project closest on the horizon that could arrive as early as next month.

"I had to put it out now or else there would be so many songs I'd want to do that I wouldn't be able to do it," he explains with a wide smile. "Even the way I did it, there are so many songs I still wanted to cover. My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone."

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Late last month, Glenn Danzig posted a photo to Facebook of himself wearing full skull makeup for the first time since his days in horror-punk hell-raisers Misfits nearly 40 years ago.

 

 

"I wore makeup only at a couple of live shows and maybe for a photo shoot," the singer tells Rolling Stone of his early punk days in the video here. "I think it was originally for a Halloween show, '79, at [New York City's] Irving Plaza. I also had the skeleton shirt and skeleton clothes on, so I was a full punk skeleton man. I can't remember if it was that show or the next year's Halloween show that we hung dead animal heads and limbs and carcasses all over the place. It smelled like a slaughterhouse. It looked like a slaughterhouse because it actually was."

Danzig has announced a month long North American headlining tour, set to begin in July in Pomona, CA and ending in Las Vegas, NV.

Tour dates:

July
11 - Pomona, CA - Fox Theatre
12 - Flagstaff, AZ - Pepsi Amphitheatre
14 - Houston, TX - Bayou Music Centre
15 - San Antonio, TX - Aztec Theatre
17 - Dallas, TX - South Side Ballroom
18 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theatre
19 - Kansas City, MO - Arvest Bank Midland Theatre
21 - Denver, CO - Fillmore Auditorium
24 - Calgary, AB - Mac Ewan Hall
25 - Edmonton, AB - Shaw Conf. Centre
27 - Vancouver, BC - Queen Elizabeth Theatre
28 - Seattle, WA - Showbox Sodo
30 - San Francisco, CA - The Warfield
31 - Las Vegas, NV - Brooklyn Bowl