Editing Danzig 4 (section)

==Production==
''Danzig 4'' was recorded at [[Ocean Way Recording|Ocean Way]] and [[Sound City Studios]] in California.

During the song writing process for the album, Glenn Danzig recorded his basic ideas onto a [[microcassette]].<ref name="Musician">{{cite web|url=http://www.misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=darticle&f=musician.894|title=Careful with that Axe, John Christ|last=Considine|first=J.D.|date=August 1994|publisher=[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]|access-date=February 10, 2011}}</ref> The process continued with Glenn Danzig and John Christ working on guitar parts, before the next stage of Eerie Von and Chuck Biscuits working out their parts of the song arrangements.<ref name="Musician"/>

The band introduced different instruments and used a few [[Industrial music|industrial]] sounds in the background of some tracks.<ref name="Allmusic" /> Christ explained "We wanted to introduce some new textures into the band, so we experimented with several older, exotic acoustic instruments, including a [[Pump organ|harmonium]], a recorder and wind chimes."<ref name="Guitar World">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.misfitscentral.com/display.php?t=darticle&f=gworld.94|title=The Passion of Christ|last=Gilbert|first=Jeff|date=August 1994|magazine=[[Guitar World]]|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref>

Christ also experimented with his guitar sound: "The big difference on this album in terms of my playing is how I use sound and texture. I experimented with several different types of [[Chorus effect|stereo chorusing]] and [[Pitch shift|pitch-shifting]]. For example, my tone on "Son of the Morning Star" constantly evolves throughout the song."<ref name="Guitar World" />

Biscuits preferred the drum sound captured on ''Danzig 4'' to the drum sound on his previous Danzig recordings: "I've had problems with the drum sounds on previous records. They've been too flat, too controlled. In the past, [[Rick Rubin|Rick [Rubin]]] has been into that dry, tight [[AC/DC]] sound. This one was looser, with more spaces, more noise."<ref name="Musician"/>

The CD release ends with an unlisted hidden thirteenth track. According to an interview with Glenn Danzig, the track is titled "Invocation" and is "about a demon fucking somebody."<ref name="Musician2"/> The song is inspired by a [[black mass]] Danzig claims to have heard at the ''Magickal Childe'' occult emporium in New York.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.the7thhouse.com/news/Articles/metal_hammer2_dec.jpg|title=The Dark Knight Returns|date=December 2002|magazine=[[Metal Hammer]]|access-date=March 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017204813/http://www.the7thhouse.com/news/Articles/metal_hammer2_dec.jpg|archive-date=October 17, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> "Invocation" includes a [[Gregorian chant]],<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/10/14/album-review-4/|title=4|last=Browne|first=David|date=October 14, 1994|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=August 2, 2010|archive-date=September 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911215204/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,304052,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and instrumental tracks that are unique to the song, but reversed, as is Glenn Danzig's spoken introduction: "All right, let's hear it back". The track has been described as sounding like a demonic ritual, and Christ described the motivation behind the recording: "People give us a hard time about the '[[Devil]] thing', so we figured, 'Let's give them something to really talk about'."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/12/09/album-cant-quell-the-demons-that-haunt-danzig/|title=Album Can't Quell the Demons that Haunt Danzig|last=Kening|first=Dan|date=December 9, 1994|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=July 12, 2012}}</ref> There are several blank tracks before "Invocation", so that it is numbered track 66.<ref name="Allmusic" /> CD players that display the "current track number" and "total disc time elapsed" in minutes thus read ''66&nbsp;&nbsp;61:38'' on the display as the final track starts. This is perhaps an intentional reference to [[Number of the beast|The Number of the Beast]] and the song "[[We Are 138]]" that Danzig wrote during his days in the [[Misfits (band)|Misfits]]. "Invocation" is not included on the cassette or vinyl versions of the album.

Although the songs "Crucifixion Destruction" and "White Devil Rise" were mentioned in interviews and articles throughout 1994, with Danzig even discussing the latter in some detail, neither song was included on the final version of the album. Along with another outtake from the same sessions, "The Mandrake's Cry", these were finally released in 2007 on the first disc of ''[[The Lost Tracks of Danzig]]'' (with "Crucifixion Destruction" under its correct title, "Satan's Crucifiction").