Editing Danzig II: Lucifuge (section)

== Critical reception ==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|author=Steve Huey |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/danzig-ii-lucifuge-mw0000689957 |title=Danzig II: Lucifuge – Danzig &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=April 17, 2015}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2Score = B–{{sfn|Christgau|2000|p=72}}
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3Score = A−<ref name="Sandow" />
| rev4 = ''[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]''
| rev4Score = 10/10<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockhard.de/megazine/reviewarchiv/review-anzeigen/11461-lucifuge.html|title=Review anzeigen|work=[[Rock Hard (magazine)|Rock Hard]]|access-date=July 9, 2013|language=de}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev5Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{sfn|DeCurtis|Henke|George-Warren|1992|p=177}}
| rev6 = ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Select">{{cite magazine|last=Perry|first=Neil|author-link1=|url=http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2015/10/albums8.jpg|title=Reviews. The New Discs: Playing Devil's Advocate. Danzig – ''Danzig II: Lucifuge''|magazine=[[Select (magazine)|Select]]|date=July 1990|access-date=1 May 2023|issue=1|pages=89|location=London|publisher=[[EMAP|EMAP Metro]]|via=selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk|issn=0959-8367|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811133119/http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2015/10/albums8.jpg|archive-date=11 August 2020}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Brod" />
}}

In a positive review for ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', music critic [[Greg Sandow]] said that the album is stronger than its predecessor and called Danzig "a unique hard rock band that thinks evil dominates the world – and seriously examines the consequences."<ref name="Sandow">{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2002/04/05/lucifuge/|title=Lucifuge|last=Sandow|first=Greg|date=July 13, 1990|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=August 27, 2010|archive-date=June 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623202033/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,251008,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[College Music Journal]]'' observed "a dank bluesy influence" which makes "thundering riffs crunch and groove as the band delves into more styles than ever before."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=13923|title=Danzig: Danzig II – Lucifuge|date=November 10, 2000|publisher=[[College Music Journal]]|access-date=August 27, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070624192321/http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=13923|archive-date=June 24, 2007}}</ref> [[Robert Palmer (American writer)|Robert Palmer]], writing in ''[[The New York Times]]'', called it "one of the most accomplished and absorbing rock albums of the year" and a "quantum leap" for Danzig, whose founder displays a voice that makes "the persona he often assumes in his lyrics, that of evil incarnate, all the more powerful and believable."<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news|last=Palmer|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Palmer (American writer)|date=November 4, 1990|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/04/arts/pop-view-dark-metal-not-just-smash-and-thrash.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm|title=POP VIEW; Dark Metal: Not Just Smash And Thrash|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=July 9, 2013}}</ref> ''[[Trouser Press]]'' gave the record a positive review "''Lucifuge'' corrects the debut's flaws: Rubin's production is much fleshier, and Glenn exercises the theatrical satanic-pagan muscle-stud angle to entertaining effect. The songs (especially the cool, dank beauty of 'Her Black Wings' and the '50s-style melodic tearjerker, 'Blood and Tears') are consistently stronger; a heavy dose of voodoo blues (the stripped-down 'I'm the One') adds pungent flavor to the thematic and musical brew."<ref name="TrouserPress">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=danzig|title=DANZIG|magazine=[[Trouser Press]]|access-date=October 8, 2013}}</ref> Neil Perry of ''[[Select (magazine)|Select]]'' said "twenty listens on and 'Lucifuge' still comes at you with fresh vigour. This is a taut, muscular, cunning and perfectly executed record", giving further praise for the album's range, Glenn Danzig's "powerful vocal howl", and the band's "mastery of their own art".<ref name="Select" /> Sounding a note of disappointment, [[Robert Christgau]] wrote in his review of the album that "Misfits fans had convinced me to hold out some hope for Glenn".{{sfn|Christgau|2000|pp=xvi, 72}}

In 2002, ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' magazine named ''Danzig II'' the 33rd greatest metal album of all time.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|location=New York|page=98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfEjLof28w8C&pg=PA98|title=40 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time|date=September 2002|access-date=July 9, 2013}}</ref> The magazine's Doug Brod said that it is "perhaps the best collection of songs on a Glenn Danzig album" and remarked that Rick Rubin "mightily punched up" his production after producing Danzig's debut album.<ref name="Brod">{{cite journal|last=Brod|first=Doug|date=August 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ezn8AaqFtHUC&pg=PA94|title=Discography: Glenn Danzig|journal=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|location=New York|page=94|access-date=July 9, 2013}}</ref>