These came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got ’em. Here’s what I said about them back then (with some minor editing):
Pity Glenn Danzig and his former Misfits bandmates. Together, they were the heaviest horror punks this side of Hades. When they split, it put a sizeable stake in all their careers — but they continue to lumber along like zombies in search of brains.
Sadly, there ain’t much of that on either of these CDs. Musclebound midget Danzig’s 6:66 Satan’s Child continues his slide into the primordial ooze of Sabbathy sludge. As the drums plod like Frankenstein’s Monster and guitars grind like the plumbing in Ozzy Osbourne’s house after a burrito bash, Glenn wails like an evil Jim Morrison about death, devils and the apocalypse. Sure, it’s heavy as elephant dung — but frankly, next to the likes of Marilyn Manson, it’s as scary as a mummy flick. The Misfits, meanwhile, refuse to give up the ghost — or the werewolf, the vampire, and the rest of their Halloween-rock shtik. They still have the skull makeup, bare chests and foot-long forelocks. And they’re still churning out crypt-kicking cheese-metal with titles such as Crawling Eye, Die Monster Die and Fiend Club. It wouldn’t be so bad if singer Michale Graves wasn’t a vocal dead ringer for Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer. Hey boys, why not bury the hatchet and reunite? After all, if it’s brains you’re after, four heads are better than one.
