Misfits

The Misfits is an American group formed in 1977 by Glenn Danzig. Their Music, cocktail clashing containing horrific texts, to see morbid, superimposed on large fronts of Guitar Punk rock'n'roll, created with it only a new musical genre, called punk Horror. 1978 to 1983, the group leaves four EP and three albums which remain engraved in the collective memory as being the true references of the style punk Horror.

Biography

The group is formed around the singer Glenn Danzig and of the bass player Jerry Only with Lodi (New Jersey). After many change of composition, the group is supplemented by arrived in 1980, of Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein (the brother of Jerry Only), guitarist then old of only 15 years. These 3 members are usually regarded as having constituted the “traditional” composition of Misfits.

After the exit of Earth A.D. of the internal tensions appear, because of the will of Glenn Danzig to change the musical orientation of the group. This last being confronted with the refusal of the remainder of the group, it founds in parallel a second group: Sahmain.
It is the October 29th 1983 with Detroit that the group dissolves, after the beater Brian Damage (just recruited by Glenn Danzig) has trowel a concert while being presented drunk on scene. This episode involves an argument between the members of the group, and during the concert, Glenn announces that the public attends the last concert of Misfits.

Glenn continues its career with Samhain, group which it will re-elect Danzig in 1986. The success obtained with this group wakes up the interest of the fans for the work of Glenn Danzig when it was within Misfits. This renewed interest, reinforced by the worship that always publicly the members of Metallica for the group asserted, involves a long legal battle between Glenn and its ex-comparses for the royalties on the republications of the old albums of Misfits, which are torn off like bread rolls. So much so that a fan world club, “The Fiend Club”, created in the middle of the Eighties, exists still today.

In 1995, Jerry Only, whose career is far from functioning as well as that of Glenn, decides to reform the group (after having negotiated a financial arrangement with this last) with Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein with the guitar, Michale Graves with the song and Dr.Chud with the battery. Most of the former fans does not follow this new line up, by referring under the name of “Newfits there”, because of the new artistic orientation of the group, and the absence of its historical founder.

With this new composition, the group publishes two albums: American Psycho in 1997 and Famous Monsters in 1999, but environment within the group worsens quickly after the exit of this second album, and the October 25th 2000, Dr.Chud and Michale Graves announce officially their departure of the group. They will form together the group Graves, which officiated until in 2003. Little time after, Doyle will leave to him also the group for still unknown reasons.

It is thus Jerry Only which will become singer, decided not to cease the activity of the group. It called upon Dez Cadena (former singer of Black Flag) with the guitar and of Marky Ramone (ex-beater of the Ramones) with the battery for a round celebrating the 25 years of existence of the group. They publish in 2003 an album of recovery: Project 1950 . In 2006, Marky Ramone yields its place to ROBO, which made its return within the group more than 20 years after its first passage in the group.

From 2004, Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein is regularly invited at the time of the concert of Danzig to interpret some titles of Misfits with two of its original members, which generated the rumor of a reformation of the group in its traditional composition; rumor since contradicted by Glenn Danzig.

In 2007, the site of the group made new skin, announcing new dates and the nearest exit of a new album.

Composition of the group

incomplete List

Original Misifts (1977-1983)

Resurrected Misfits (1995-2000)

Discography

Misfits original

  • 1977 : Cough/Cool (individual)
  • 1978: Bullet (EP)
  • 1979: Horror Business (EP)
  • 1979: Night off the Living room Dead (individual)
  • 1980: Beware (EP)
  • 1981: 3 Hits From Hell (EP)
  • 1981: Who Killed Marilyn? (individual)
  • 1981: Halloween (individual)
  • 1982: Walk Among Custom (album)
  • 1982: Evilive (live fan club EP)
  • 1983: Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood (album)
  • 1984: Die, Die My Darling (individual)
  • 1985: Legacy Off Brutality (album)
  • 1986: Collection I (album)
  • 1987: Evilive (live album)
  • 1995: Collection II (album)
  • 1996: Box Set (Box Set)
  • 1997: Old Static (album)
  • 2001: 12 Hits From Hell (album - promotion only, unreleased)

Resurrected Misfits

  • 1997 : American Psycho (album)
  • 1997: Dig Up Her Bones (individual)
  • 1998: Evillive II (live fan club album)
  • 1999: Famous Monsters (album)
  • 1999: Monster Mash (individual)
  • 1999: Cuts From The Crypt (album)
  • 2003: Project 1950 (album)

References

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