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Rating: Approximately 45 minutes.
This is what Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only, his brother Doyle, and Arthur Googy left us with just two albums: “Walk Among Us” and “Earth A.D./Wolfsblood.”
The Misfits (a name borrowed from the title of the last film made by Marilyn Monroe) represented the convergence point between the most baroque punk and the emergence of extreme metal. It is no secret, in fact, that “Kill 'Em All,” the debut album of the then-teenage four horsemen and the initiator of thrash, paid a heavy tribute to the New Jersey band.
The nocturnal and evil creation by Danzig, who, after leaving the mother band he co-founded with Only, embarked on a respectable solo career, dwelling in hard rock sounds with Sabbath influences, managed to blend in lyrics, music, and image, all the stereotypes of B-grade horror movies.
Starting with the logo that distinguishes all the band's gadgets, namely the skull “The Fiend.” Listening to the violence of the Misfits' sound chapters also means being catapulted into a long nightmare through zombies, werewolves, cemeteries (urban legends tell that the entire crew was arrested while laying waste to an entire cemetery in search of the tomb of Marie Laveau, notorious master of black magic), Martians, vampires, murderers, and much more deranged found in second-rate fantasy and horror literature.
The second “Earth Anno Domini” stands out from its predecessor for a darker, faster sound, less punk and more hardcore. The listener can do nothing but remain inert in the face of so much concentrated pure violence, and can only let themselves be dragged into that artfully created nightmare towards the “Green Hell” where they fall together with the hordes of demons and other nocturnal creatures, lyrically evoked by our guys through a sonorous voodoo that is sinister and fascinating at the same time. But there is not even time to realize what has happened before the dream is already over.
This “Earth A.D.,” with its twenty-one minutes, indeed, flies past you like a lightning bolt, with the same speed as a flashback. Songs like the title track, “Devilock” (also the personal hairstyle style of Jerry Only), “Death Comes Ripping,” the one minute of “Wolfsblood,” the 45 seconds of “Demonomania,” “Hellhound,” give you no escape, they capture you and leave you bleeding, definitively knocked out.
Of course, one cannot fail to mention perhaps the most famous song of the combo, “Die, Die My Darling,” covered, along with others, by 'Tallica to pay homage to the band that most inspired and captivated them (the late Cliff Burton had the band’s logo tattooed on his shoulder). The band, in conclusion, should be admired both for the contribution it made to establishing American hardcore and for extreme metal, all adorned with a cult image that, in vain, has been the subject of emulation.
With all due respect to Manson, Murder Dolls, and whatnot.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Earth A.D. (02:09)
oh, boom, when you feel like you're going to slow
I bet your gonna like it in AD, AD
People gonna talk about AD, AD
Bloody hell and sacrifice you
your head's on a big display
well your really gonna like it here AD, AD
people gonna talk about AD, AD
Living hell is not so bad
you bet you're life theres gonna be a fight
you bet you're life because the hills have eyes
you bet you're life theres gonna be a fight
you bet your because the hills have eyes
And then you're gonna die and then death is mine and then you
Oh, boom, on earth as it is in hell
We'll see you get to like it in AD,AD
people gonna talk about AD, AD
Bloody Hell and sacrifice you
your heads on a big display
Oh, you're really gonna like it here AD, AD
people gonna talk about AD, AD
Living Hell is not so bad
You bet you're life theres gonna be a fight
you bet you life because the hills have eyes
you bet your life theres gonna be a fight
you bet you're life because the hills have eyes
And then you die and then death is mine and then
you bet you're life theres gonna be a fight
you bet you're life because the hills have eyes
you bet you're life theres gonna be a fight
you bet your life because the hills have eyes
And then you're gonna die and then death is mine and then you
02 Queen Wasp (01:32)
Vampire girl gonna strike to kill
Gonna kiss your vertebrae
With the kiss of poisoned love
Well, I'm a king and you're a queen
Queen wasp go
Dive in warrior wasps
Queen wasp go
Go
Go
Go
Go
Human-looking from the thorax up
Human stomach and a tiny waist
My God we're living the life of
My God we're wasting what I hold
Queen wasp go
Dive in warrior wasps
Queen wasp go
Gotta want to see it, baby
Put the stinger in your back, baby
Hot stinger in burning, baby
Human arms and a head of your love
Think nothing about eating your love
Think nothing, I'm a king and you're a queen
Queen wasp go
Dive in warrior wasps
Queen wasp go
Go (x12)
03 Devilock (01:26)
So make this demon offering
Best demon offering
Curious about the eye of death, oh
Gonna make it public
Gonna make you pay
Gonna rip your skull out
Eye of death, I know
Devilock, you rip your heart, I have 'em
Devilock, I rip your eyes out of hell
Hell is pumping something
Into lots of people
Curious about the eye of death, oh
Gonna make it public
Gonna make you pay
Gonna rip your skull out
Eye of death, I have them
Devilock, you rip your heart, I have 'em
Devilock, I rip your heart out of hell
Oh
Devilock, I rip your heart out, I have 'em
Devilock, I pluck your eyes out, I have 'em
Devilock, I rip your heart out of hell
Go, go, go, go, go
04 Death Comes Ripping (01:53)
Turn the lights down low
And bolt the door up
Future is coming
Future rising up
Whoa Shotgun blast, a demon piece of lead
With both eyes open
I wait up for the kill
Feel the evil
Feel the heat as I blast you open
Death comes ripping
And it's going, death comes ripping
You feel the heat as death comes ripping
Rip your back out
And death comes ripping out
Flesh and the blood
Too weak for the likes of you
Turning it over
A little too late to penetrate
Death comes ripping
And it's going, death comes ripping
You feel the heat as death comes ripping
Rip your back out
Death comes ripping
And it's going, death comes ripping
You feel the heat as death comes ripping
Rip your back out
Death comes ripping
And I know that death comes ripping out
Whoa
Whoa
Whoa
Whoa
06 Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight? (02:03)
1, 2, 3, 4
Singled out the kids who are mean to me
Get straight A's but they still make fun
I don't give a..., I'll laugh last
Stayed in every night
Do my homework so I'll be smart
Girls all say I'm a little fucked
Mommy I'm a good boy
Mommy I'm a fuckin' savior
Mommy I'm alive
Mommy, can I go out and kill tonight
Rip the veins from human necks
Until they're wet with life
Razor-blades love teenage flesh
An epidermoty
I'll bring back a souvenir
For it's my mommy's dream
Can I go out and kill tonight, kill tonight
Killed a girl on lovers' lane
I kept her toes and teeth
Every night I stalk around until I find my keep
I'll bring back a souvenir
For it's my mommy's dream
Can I go out and kill tonight, kill tonight
Killed a girl on lovers lane
I kept her toes and teeth
Every night I stalk around until I find my keep, mommy
I'll bring back a souvenir
For it's my mommy's dream
Can I go out and kill tonight, kill tonight
Kill tonight, kill tonight, kill tonight, kill tonight
Kill tonight, kill tonight
Can I go out and kill tonight, kill tonight
Kill tonight, kill tonight, kill tonight, kill tonight
Kill tonight, kill tonight
07 Wolfs Blood (01:13)
You don't know what I've spoken to
While I've been gone
Know what I've gotta do and
You won't kill me
'Cause of my head
My blood feels wolfs blood
Pumping in my veins
When I feel like murdering a baby
And I feel my heart extend
And I feel my muscles break
And I feel my gums extend
And I know I'm not a man
And I still don't have my head
My blood, it's wolfs blood
Pumping in my veins
When I'm killing a five year old
And I feel my heart extend
And I feel my muscles break
And I feel my gums extend
And I know I'm not a man, oh
You don't know what I've spoken to
While I've been gone
You don't know what I've gotta do and
You won't kill me
'Cause of my head
My blood, it's wolfs blood
Pumping in my veins
When I'm killing a five year old
And I'm gonna take him up
To my house on a hill
I know why you're dead
08 Demonomania (00:45)
Look upon me I am a beast
Demonomania (x3)
My father was a wolf
Demonomania (x3)
My mother was a whore
check and see
reality of the wolf
Its in the blood
I wanna be the fucking savior
Humans are weak
What else you fucking do
Humans are weak
I want your blood
Demonomania (x3)
My father was a wolf
Demonomania (x3)
My mother was a whore
Demonomania (x3)
My mother was a whore
Demonomania (x3)
My father was a wolf
09 Bloodfeast (02:29)
when they pull out her tongue pull off her face, pluck out her eyes
well, the blood runs cold for when it drips from the mouth be
forewarned, be prepared for a grizzly bloodfeast and that blood's so
real because i just can't fake it and that blood's so real because i just
can't fake it when you think of severed heads think of my face, think
that you're alive well, i guess i fooled you when you think of my face
think of your blood, think that you're dead 'cause it's a grizzly
bloodfeast i'm possessing your death possessing your blood
possessing your head 'cause it's a privileged bloodfeast i'm
possessing your heart possessing your tongue possessing your blood
'cause it just won't fake you and that blood's so real because i just
can't fake it and that blood's so real because i just can't fake it and
that blood, and that blood i'm possessing your death possessing your
blood possessing your demise for a grizzly bloodfeast i'm possessing
your heart possessing your tongue possessing your blood 'cause it
just won't fake you and that blood's so real because i just can't fake it
and that blood's so real because i just can't fake it and that blood, and
that blood
10 Hellhound (01:16)
HELLHOUND
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Got a hellhound dog
That hellhound's gonna rip your face off
Got a hellhound dog
That hellhound's gonna tear right through
Got a hellhound born
A hellhound born to the pack
Got a hellhound dog
And I know that I might be dead
Those who seek it out
Those who stand a few
Hell, hell of Satan's pack
We are born of hate
Both feet into Hell
Take another step
Towards the bleeding light
Those who seek it out
Those who stand a few
We are a part of it
Got a hellhound dog
That hellhound's gonna rip your face off
Got a hellhound dog
That hellhound's gonna tear right through
Got a hellhound born
A hellhound born to the pack
Got a hellhound dog
That hellhound's gonna rip your face off
Got a hellhound dog
That hellhound's gonna rip your face off
Got a hellhound dog
Got a hellhound born
11 Die, Die My Darling (03:11)
Die, die, die my darling
Don't utter a single word
Die, die, die my darling
Just shut your pretty mouth
I'll be seeing you again
I'll be seeing you in Hell
Don't cry to me oh baby
Your future's in an oblong box, yeah
Don't cry to me oh baby
Should have seen it a-coming on
Don't cry to me oh baby
I don't know it was in your power
Don't cry to me oh baby
Dead-end girl for a dead-end boy
Don't cry to me oh baby
Now your life drains on the floor
Don't cry to me oh baby
Die, die, die my darling
Don't utter a single word
Die, die, die my darling
Just shut your pretty mouth
I'll be seeing you again
I'll be seeing you in Hell
Don't cry to me oh baby
Your future is in an oblong box
Don't cry to me oh baby
Should have seen the end a-coming on, a-coming
Don't cry to me oh baby
I don't know it was in your power
Don't cry to me oh baby
Dead-end road for a dead-end life
Don't cry to me oh baby
Now your life drains on the floor
Don't cry to me oh baby
Die, die, die my darling
Don't utter a single word
Die, die, die my darling
Shut your pretty mouth
I'll be seeing you again
I'll be seeing you in Hell
Don't cry to me oh baby
Die, die, die my darling
Don't cry to me oh baby
Die, die, die my darling
Die, die, die my darling
Die, die, die my darling
Die, die, die, die, die, die....
12 We Bite (01:15)
We walk the streets, I'm out to get you We bite
Just a feast of gore and blood We bite
Carnivores live for pleasure We bite
Strike out like a wolf's endeavor We bite
And when I get your blood I rip your throat
Your blood I rip your throat
I want your blood, I rip your throat
drink some blood
We bite
We bite
We bite
We bite
And when I get your blood I rip your throat
Your blood I rip your throat
I want your blood, I rip your throat
To drink some blood
We bite
We bite
And when I get your blood I rip your throat
Your blood I rip your throat
I want your blood, I rip your throat
To drink some blood
We bite
We bite
We bite
We bite
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