Earth A.D. / Wolfs Blood by The Misfits

Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood, the second studio album from Lodi, New Jersey's horror-punk pioneers the Misfits, came out in December 1983 on Glenn Danzig's own Plan 9 label, two months after he'd played his last show with the band. It was the last album they made with him singing, and it runs under 15 minutes, a nine-song LP that goes by like a car wreck.

This is the Misfits at their most savage, with Jerry Only on bass, his brother Doyle on guitar and Robo on drums hammering out hardcore at breakneck speed while Danzig howls his horror-movie nightmares over the top. Spot produced. It's now considered a touchstone of the early-'80s hardcore scene. Danzig later said "Bloodfeast" and "Death Comes Ripping" had been meant for his next band, Samhain, and were thrown in as a last-ditch bid to keep the Misfits alive. Later pressings added the three songs from the 1984 single, among them "Die, Die My Darling", and some even carry that title.

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