Genres: Hardcore Punk, American Underground Active: 70's, 80's, 90's Formed: 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey
Black Flag, Minor Threat, Motörhead, Violent Apathy, T.S.O.L., Metallica, Fear, Dead Kennedys, The Cramps, The Circle Jerks, The White Barons American Werewolves, Metallica, Aiden, Tiger Army, My Chemical Romance, The Bomb, Koffin Kats, Moral Crux, Webelos, Suicide City, Riot Squad, James Hetfield, Naked Raygun, Slayer, O'Death, Melvins, Cosmosonic, NOFX, AFI |  |
Genuinely shocking or tasteless, campy fun? It was sometimes hard to tell which way the Misfits wanted to be taken, and the immense cult following that has grown up in the years after their actual existence (1977-1983) seems divided in its own assessment. It certainly wasn't the Misfits' musicianship -- which was as crude as the recording quality of most of their oeuvre -- that endeared them to so many, although Glenn Danzig possessed one of the most distinctive and tuneful bellows in hardcore punk. Rather, it was Danzig's penchant for catchy, anthemic melodies, often delivered at warp speed, and his lyrical obsession with grade-B horror films and splatter imagery that helped the Misfits build a rabid posthumous following.
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Release: June 27, 2006
Label: Misfits, Rykodisc
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Release: July 29, 2003
Label: Misfits, Rykodisc, DBK Works
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