Danzig is calling out from inside of there, speaking for the rest of us against the banal adversity. I don’t think that’s a bad thing, though I think that’s the point, to present you something that sounds mindless or brain-dead. Each thump of the bass and churning of the guitar’s higher strings seduces me, even if the noise of it all eventually gives me a headache. Each “STATIC” Danzig cries makes me want to pump up my fist. At least, it would be if it lost all its adrenaline, which the song never does. To that end, “Static Age” almost turns into an early Joy Division song, or maybe a Warsaw song.
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I feel like I’m staring at a wall (or a TV set), having some odiously intrusive thoughts pounding against the fuzzy grey of the room around me. The distortion of the guitar is caught into the coerciveness apparent in the equally distorted bass the cymbals clap more than they chime. Milo: The grandpappy of drone metal and grunge. You won’t need anything else afterwards. That’s right this album can be your high-school sweetheart. When one reaches the end of this slasher soundtrack, you’ll find a heart reading “Us + The Misfits 4everÛ. This album is to The Misfits what any of the first 3 albums of the Ramones were to the Ramones, with each individual track carving a notch into the tree of Punk Rock. That said, if I were to review any of their albums, I’d pick Static Age. Their music has influenced everyone and anyone, from the pontificators of pop-punk in Blink-182, the thanes of thrash in Metallica, the Saints of Sikk Riffz in Screaming Females. But, while the New Jersey Devil himself may have lost both his singing ability and his relevancy, the legacy left by his first band, The Misfits, remains untouchable. That man has led bands that have defined entire genres, be it horror-punk, death-rock, and whatever the fuck his namesake band decides to be.