Putzig, a Danzig cover band, earns its keep playing the VFW circuit, county fairs, the occasional quinceañera and is treading mediocrity. They’ve got the basics down, and can rip through the classics with perfunctory precision. When you can tear through Snakes of Christ, but can’t you connect with the audience then something is amiss. Danzig is equal parts musical brilliance and PT Barnum showmanship, and Putzig can’t replicate the je ne sais quoi Glenn is touted for. The band is going nowhere, until a muskular, swarthy frontman approaches the band with a Faustian bargain: he’ll front the band and see that they become famous if they agree to support him unconditionally when the time comes.
And boy, does that time come. Putzig becomes bigger than their inspiration with the inverted Father, an ode to the HDIC himself. However, the band soon finds out when you fuck with the Ram Skull, you get the Ram Skull’s horns. Now, the original band members are torn between upholding their end of the bargain in knife fight to the death or sniveling Starscream-style so that Glenn doesn’t kill them. It’s said that whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But if it’s Glenn Danzig that doesn’t kill you, can you even contain the awesomeness? Obviously, no. But that won’t stop us from presenting you with the next chapter of our Danzig-zeitgeist.