Misfits Misfits

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• Misfits is one of those records where the mythology and the music reinforce each other perfectly. Whether you come to it for the horror imagery, the punk history or the sheer force of the songs, what hits first is how direct it is. The bands sound is stripped to the bone but never thin, and Glenn Danzigs writing gives the music a strange melodic pull beneath all the speed, sneer and violence. There is a reason the Misfits became bigger after the fact than they ever were in their original run: the songs are simple enough to feel immediate, but distinctive enough that no one else really sounds like them.

  What makes this material endure is the tension between catchiness and menace. Even when everything is rough, fast and hostile, there is still a pop instinct buried in it, which is why these songs stick. The choruses feel primi