Description

Genuinely shocking or tasteless, campy fun? It was sometimes hard to tell which way the Misfits wanted to be taken, and the immense cult following that has grown up in the years after their actual existence (1977-1983) seems divided in its own assessment. It certainly wasn’t the Misfits’ musicianship — which was as crude as the recording quality of most of their oeuvre — that endeared them to so many, although Glenn Danzig possessed one of the most distinctive and tuneful bellows in hardcore punk. Rather, it was Danzig’s penchant for catchy, anthemic melodies, often delivered at warp speed, and his lyrical obsession with grade-B horror films and splatter imagery that helped the Misfits build a rabid posthumous following. ‘12 Hits From Hell’ features recordings from the storied MSP sessions recorded in 1980, around the time of the 3 Hits From Hell EP, shortly before the group recorded their legendary debut album, Walk Among Us. It also features an alternate take on London Dungeon as a bonus track. This is an essential item for the legions of Misfits fanatics

Track listing:
1. Halloween
2. Vampira
3. I Turned Into A Martian
4. Skulls
5. London Dungeon
6. Night Of The Living Dead
7. Horror Hotel
8. Ghouls Night Out
9. Astro Zombies
10. Where Eagles Dare
11. Violent World
12. Halloween II
13. London Dungeon-alternate take