Initium

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Based on 21 ratings
1984 Ratings: #159
August 1984 / Release Date
LP / Format
Plan 9 / Label
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snaggs
70

Kinda just spooky punk. Cool, but spooky punk.

100

My favourite album of all-time. Perfect in every sense of the word in my opinion.

This is Horror Punk done perfectly, with the fast, punky tracks like "Black Dream" and "He Who Cannot Be Named", to the slow, heavy tracks like "Macabre" and "The Shift". From the atmospheric opening of the title track, to the simple, yet chaotic ending guitar solo of "Archangel".

Every track has a purpose. To me, this album never feels dragged out or rushed, ... read more

BigBrera
84

Not quite as good as the Misfits records, but fantastic horror punk nonetheless. Danzig really needs to suck it up and rerelease this shit or people are not gonna know it exists.

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Track List

  1. Initium
  2. Samhain
  3. Black Dream
  4. All Murder, All Guts, All Fun
  5. Macabre
  6. He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named
  7. Horror Biz
  8. The Shift
  9. The Howl
  10. Archangel
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