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Punk 101 lesson of the week!!!

OK youngsters, fiends, and ghouls. Its time to stop checking out porn and get educated with the Punk Rock lesson of the Week. Now most of you are still in the 101 and we are mostly hitting the 80′s for now, I don’t speak about the 70′s yet, because I am the one blogging here and I wanna talk about what I like, so you read and shut up!

THE MISFITS!!!

The misfits is one of the most dirties punk bands of the early 80′s, even tough they have had a lot of lineup changes in the past 30 years they are still playing, however for me the best years of the band are when Glenn Danzig was the lead singer, although he was probably a douche the bands songs and sound was the best they have had, we can say that was the peak of their musical career.

here is what wikinerds have to say about them as formal information:

The Misfits are an American rock band often recognized as the progenitors of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk rock and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery. Founded in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey by singer and songwriter Glenn Danzig, the group had a fluctuating lineup during its first six years with Danzig and bassist Jerry Only as the only consistent members. During this time they released several EPs and singles and, with Only’s brother Doyle as guitarist, the albums Walk Among Us (1982) and Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood (1983), both considered touchstones of the early-1980s hardcore punk movement. The Misfits disbanded in 1983 and Danzig went on to form Samhain and then Danzig. Several albums of reissued and previously unreleased material were issued after the group’s dissolution, and their music became influential to punk rock, heavy metal, and alternative rock music of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

After a series of legal battles with Danzig, Only and Doyle regained the rights to record and perform as the Misfits. They formed a new version of the band in 1995 with singer Michale Graves and drummer Dr. Chud. This incarnation of the Misfits had a sound much more rooted in heavy metal and released the albums American Psycho (1997) and Famous Monsters (1999) before dissolving in 2000. Jerry Only then took over lead vocals and recruited former Black Flag guitarist Dez Cadena and former Ramones drummer Marky Ramone for a Misfits 25th Anniversary tour. This lineup released an album of cover songs entitled Project 1950 and toured for several years. In 2005 Ramone was replaced by Robo, who had played with Black Flag in the early 1980s and had also previously been the Misfits’ drummer from 1982 to 1983. The current lineup of Only, Cadena, and Robo continues to tour and has announced plans to record an album of new material.