The Misfits Legacy of Brutality Album Art
Legacy of Brutality has always been the odd outlier Misfits collection album for me.
I bought it, like most Misfits CDs, in an impulsive flurry of 90s teenage punk enthusiasm having found yet another Misfits CD I didn't own, only later to get it home, jam it in to my (super rad) three-disc CD player, to find that it is essentially just a butchered version of Static Age, an album I already own, but with Who Killed Marlyn, Where Eagles Dare, and American Nightmare thrown on there for good measure. Songs I also had at this point thanks to then (and now) legendary career retrospective coffin boxset recently having been unfurled into the world.
Like is the case with so much Misfits ephemera, the lure of cool visuals and adding another trophy to the expanding collection was enough to procure Legacy of Brutality a place in my home and heart. It was the first time I'd ever seen the famous drawing of the Misfits fiend singer, or Danzig, in the full skeleton getup, grasping the mic stand in that knelt-pose, or even that particular version of the Crimson Ghost with it's lackadaisical hand held limply on the front cover as if it had something, anything else better to do than be reused, again. Oh, buddy, if only you knew...
Because of this, I don't have many strong memories associated with this particular CD, just that it existed, and I bought it, and listened to it occasionally, but would usually just prefer to listen to Static Age or the box set, which had all the same songs. At least my then teenage punk rock Misfits album collection was mighty and impressive, I'm sure I thought. Impressive to who? I have no idea.
But it was.