Sunday 14 May 2017

Misfits - The Horror Kid America Never Saw

So, if you remember, I mentioned that I could not comment on the Hideous era of the Misfits because I never really heard him with the band beyond some clips here and there on YouTube. Well, thanks to a record company releasing an unofficial live recording, I have now got to hear Myke Hideous of Empire Hideous with the Misfits. There is the official story and others of how this came to happen but, you have to wonder how they sounded during this tour of South America and Europe. I must say, WOW! They sound really freaking good with Hideous on vocals! Makes you wonder why they didn't try to do something with him after Famous Monsters at the very least as now I am wondering what he and the band would have sounded like together if they wrote new material. On this release, he tackles 31 Misfits classics from Danzig and Graves era of the band and does a phenomenal job! All Misfits fans needs a copy of this release as it shows once and for all that Hideous is not an interesting fact or a side note in Misfits history but an actual awesome singer for the band in the time that he filled in for the band. What could have been? Who knows! But, we do get a glimpse into the past almost 20 years later to show us what did actually sound like.

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