If it wasn’t for groups like Metallica, the Misfits might have
\nremained a cult band with a small, but rabid, audience. But
\nMetallica, thanks in no small part to the late Cliff Burton, helped
\nbring this group to the forefront of the music world (even after
\nthe band had originally called it a day) thanks to their covers of
\n“Last Caress” and “Green Hell.”<\/p>\n
But something strange happened in the time since Glenn Danzig
\nleft the band and the group re-convened back in 1995. They grew up.
\nThey learned to play their instruments, and not just go for a
\ncacophany of feedback and fury. They moved away from the
\ndemon-drenched lyrics and became more of a mock horror band.<\/p>\n
This is supposed to be a good thing? After listening to
\nFamous Monsters<\/i>, the answer is: hell, no.<\/p>\n
Vocalist Michale Graves (who looks like he just had a Halloween
\ncostume slapped on him by Party City), simply put, is no Danzig. He
\noften doesn’t have the urgency in his voice to carry punk’s frantic
\nenergy, and he sounds, well… he sounds too polished. For that
\nmatter, the whole band, including founding member Jerry Only on
\nbass, sound like they got the studio wax coating – and it’s just
\nnot the Misfits anymore.<\/p>\n
I realize that music must change and evolve, but
\nFamous Monsters<\/i> seems to spit in the face of the songs that
\nmade them an underground favorite. Before, when you heard a song
\nlike “Earth A.D.” or “Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill Tonight,” you
\ncouldn’t help but get wrapped up in the controlled panic that was
\nthe band. Now, when I hear songs like “Lost In Space,” “Saturday
\nNight,” “Die Monster Die” and “Fiend Club,” it’s like I’m listening
\nto a band who have been working on their craft. Sorry, guys: punk
\nisn’t something that you work on, it just happens.<\/p>\n
No matter how I looked at it,
\nFamous Monsters<\/i> disappoints. Only near the end of the disc,
\non cuts like “Hunting Humans” and “Helena,” do things seem to take
\na minor upswing. But these tracks don’t hold a candle to earlier
\nwork by the Misfits – or newer groups like Groovie Ghoulies, for
\nthat matter.<\/p>\n
What has happened, in effect, is that the Misfits have become a
\nparody of themselves – and that’s a sure sign that it’s time to
\neither re-evaluate what you’re doing or to throw in the towel and
\nlet the past speak for itself.<\/p>\n
\nFamous Monsters<\/i> is not a Misfits album; I don’t give a damn
\nwhat the CD spine says. This is an album from a metal band that
\nwants desparately to capture the angst, darkness and power of the
\nMisfits, and they fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6132],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-36271","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-misfits","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36271"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36271"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}