Amoeba Music

By Oliver Hall

            The Misfits were a punk, and later hardcore, band from Lodi, New Jersey, fronted by crooner, songwriter and art student Glenn Danzig.  The now-beloved songs Danzig wrote for the Misfits teem with references to Hollywood “B” movies of the horror and science-fiction genres.  The smiling, hooded skull that is the Misfits’ now-ubiquitous logo comes from the 1946 Republic serial Crimson Ghost.  Many Misfits songs take their title or subject from reference points in Danzig’s filmic universe: the Misfits’ catalog includes “Return of the Fly,” “Night of the Living Dead,” “Green... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Punk

City Of Origin:

Lodi, ,New Jersey United States

Formed Date:

1977