I know it's basically blasphemy. You're meant to prefer Glenn Danzig and pretend the Misfits ceased to exist when he left, like you're supposed to pretend Mike McColgan was the only true DKM front man.
Punk is, ironically, full of so many rules.
But in the true spirit of the movement - fuck the common consensus. There's plenty to like about the simplicity of Danzig's Misfits, I love hardcore, I love the early work and I fully appreciate how old school hardcore fans might have felt betrayed by Famous Monsters.
But fuck if its not an amazing album. Graves has an incredible voice, one of my favourite vocalists in modern punk and the sound benefited from a bit more metal complexity. I mean it's still not Dragonforce, is it? It's still power chords and root notes but there's another layer that really brings the music out.
One of my favourite records growing up, weirdly I picked it out of a record store on a Greek island on holiday when I was about 13 along with the best of the Ramones.
It's this week's "albums I haven't listened to in ages and when I do I wonder why I haven't listened to in ages."
What's yours?
