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This article will be on the Misfits. Danzig will feature shortly but I felt I had to write about Misfits before Danzig solo. So Misfits were a band from the 1970s and they still play these days with line-up changes. Their name came from Marilyn Monroe's movie "The Misfits". They created a genre known as horror punk and the theme of their songs were from B-movies, horror and sci-fi material. The founder of the band was lead singer, Glenn Danzig (From Scottish-American heritage (I will give more detail when I write about him specifically)) and he really made me fall in love with the band. As my bro Donn says, he brought an opera like style in vocals to punk and it was kick ass. The bassist Jerry Caiafa/Jerry Only (the name came from Misfits first record, released without Jerry's second name on it and so he wanted to be called "Jerry....Only Jerry") was the only (excuse the pun) member to stay with the band through all the years and now he still remains in the band with other punk rock veterans on other instruments (including members of Black Flag). Misfits are a very important band as they influenced punk rock and metal. Metallica covered them (an immense influence, especially to legend Cliff Burton), Lamb of God vocalist has been seen wearing Misfits merchandise, A.F.I. are heavily influenced by them and Avenged Sevenfold, Pantera and many other bands all cite them as influential. The Japanese rock band, "Balzac" are particularly Misfits followers as you can see on their videos. Misfits have countless brilliant songs and well Danzig made this band extra special for me so the feature on Glenn Danzig later will give more details about him. Check out the following songs : Last Caress (a cool piece of rare footage with metallica and danzig doing this song!), Die Die My Darling, Where Eagles Dare, Halloween. I am sorry I won't mention stuff by Misfits of today as much. It's just, for me, Danzig was and is the shit and so once he left the band in 1983 I believe, I didn't want to listen anymore. Instead I followed Samhain and Danzig :D. Take care, peace x