Ought to artists who announce their retirement from touring carry out subsequent reveals? Glenn Danzig definitely doesn’t assume so, and even goes so far as to say the apply is a “rip-off”.

A number of of rock’s largest acts have performed reveals after formally calling it quits: Kiss, Mötley Crüe and Ozzy Osbourne, for instance. However the Danzig and Misfits man gained’t be doing the identical.

In a brand new interview with Radioactive MikeZ on 96.7 KCAL-FM, Danzig expresses his place that “when it’s closing, and if I say it’s closing, it’ll be closing”.

“I keep in mind when Danzig went out with Ozzy, that was presupposed to be his closing tour [laughs],” he says [via Consequence]. “After which he’s executed a bunch of ultimate excursions since then.”

He goes on: “if it’s gonna be closing, it ought to be closing. In case you say it’s gonna be closing… You’ll see all these bands [announced what they say will be] the final tour, after which they’re again once more two years later. And it’s sort of a rip-off, I feel. So, when it’s closing, and if I say it’s closing, it’ll be closing.”

Danzig at the moment don’t have any plans to name it quits, and Glenn is hesitant to name their upcoming six-date US trek a “tour”.

“Proper now, just about what I’ve mentioned is sort of what I’m doing,” he says. “I don’t actually tour anymore. I’ll do a string of reveals, which I don’t think about a tour. If it’s, like, you recognize, six to 10 reveals, I don’t actually think about {that a} tour. 

“Once I used to exit on tour, we’d exit for 3 or 4 months at a time, come house for a few weeks or a month after which return out once more for an additional couple of months.”

He concludes: “That’s touring, the place you’re hitting each metropolis in the US or in Germany or Europe or Scandinavia, wherever you’re going. That’s a tour. I imply, that is only a small string of reveals right here on the West Coast.”

Whereas Kiss formally hung up their guitars after their triumphant closing present at Madison Sq. Backyard in 2023, the band are engaged on an ABBA Voyage-style present expertise for followers with holograms of themselves performing. Naturally, for a band as profitable as Kiss, when there’s cash nonetheless on the desk, they’re unlikely to name it quits for good. And Gene Simmons will not be ashamed of this opportunistic mentality.

“Folks name me a sellout. You’re rattling proper, bitch. I promote out each night time,” he mentioned in 2022.

Check out Danzig’s upcoming tour dates through their official web site.