Danzig : Danzig

MOTHER

TELL YOUR CHILDREN 
NOT TO WALK MY WAY
TELL YOUR CHILDREN
NOT TO HEAR MY WORDS
WHAT THEY MEAN
WHAT THEY SAY
MOTHER

Samhain : Initium/Unholy Passion/Samhain III: November-Coming-Fire/Final Descent

 Samhain 

was an

 American

 Rock band 

formed by

 singer

 Glenn Danzig

 in 1983, 

immediately following

 his departure

 from

 The Misfits.

 Glenn Danzig 

originally planned

 Samhain

 as a side project

 with

 Eerie Von. 

After the Misfits' 

contentious 

1983 dissolution, 

Samhain 

became Danzig's

 full-time band.

Samhain catalogs a

 transitional period

 in Glenn Danzig's

 musical career, 

bridging the gap

 between the 

punk rock/horror punk

 of the Misfits 

and the dark, 

heavy metal

 and

 blues-influenced sound

 of Danzig. 

Samhain's lyrics

 were much darker

 than those of

 the Misfits, 

with themes rooted

 in paganism 

and the occult 

and eventually

 the horrors of reality, 

as opposed to

 the sometimes 

cartoonish ghouls 

and ghosts of

 the Misfits.

Both Samhain

 and its successor,

 Danzig, 

use the same

 horned skull image

 originally drawn

 by artist 

Michael Golden

 for the cover

 of the 1984

 comic book

 The Saga of Crystar No. 8,

 published by

 Marvel Comics.

 The font often used

 in the wordmarks of

 Samhain, 

and later Danzig, 

is taken from the film 

The Giant Gila Monster. 

Danzig took the name 

of the band

 from the Irish month 

of November 

and pre-Christian,

 Celtic festival 

Samhain, 

the origin of the

 modern Halloween. 

Despite the

 festival being

 pronounced

 "sau-win", 

the band's name 

is often pronounced as

 "sam-hane".

 Glenn Danzig

 has said that

 both pronunciations

 are correct.

Samhain released

 two full-length albums 

and one EP 

during their

 three-year career 

as an active band.

 Danzig has said

 that he wrote

 two songs 

("Death Comes Ripping"

 and "Bloodfeast") 

with the intention of 

using them on

 the first 

Samhain album, 

but instead 

recorded them

 with the Misfits 

for the

 Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood album

 in order to 

round out that 

band's final series 

of recordings and 

release a full album.