''Danzig Sings Elvis'' is the twelfth studio album by American heavy metal band Danzig. It was released on April 17, 2020, through

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. The album consists of cover versions of tracks originally recorded by

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. " Always on My Mind" was released as the album's sole

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on July 29, 2020. The single was released on 7-inch vinyl as well as via digital and streaming formats and features an alternate vocal version of "

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" as its

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Critical reception

''Danzig Sings Elvis'' was met with mixed reviews from critics. At

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, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 60, based on five reviews. In a review for

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' Mark Deming noted "While lennDanzig doesn't sound exactly bad here, the harder he tries to sound like Presley, the more he misses the target, and the grain of his voice and the occasional moments where he's reaching for notes he doesn't quite have make it clear he shouldn't have waited until he was 64 years old to do this, when his voice isn't nearly as nimble as Presley's in his prime. Also touching on the quality of the vocal delivery,

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said " s vocals are pleasantly imperfect—still thick and round, but a little bit frayed at the edges, and not in an especially deliberate way, sometimes Danzig's voice gets a little wobbly, as if it were late at night, and maybe he has been drinking" but went on to praise the structures of the songs: "most of the arrangements are faithful to the originals. Danzig doesn't transform any of these tracks into speed-metal songs or fiddle around with the melodies".

Track listing

Charts

References

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