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DISGRACELAND

The Misfits: Robbing Graves, Night of the Living Dead and the Teenagers from Mars

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

Society & Culture, Music, True Crime

4.6 • 13.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Misfits were truly unique. Scary. Violent. Angry. Nihilistic. These words can easily describe not only their music, but also the band as people, particularly frontman Glenn Danzig. Rumored to have been arrested for grave robbery, locked up abroad and inciting riots here in the States, the Misfits blazed a path of annihilation trading on fictional B-movie and scandal rag imagery to create one of the most enduring cult followings of all time and combating the very real sense of alienation that fueled Danzig’s creativity and violent behavior. This episode was originally published on October 27, 2020. To see the full list of contributors, see the show notes at ⁠www.disgracelandpod.com⁠. To listen to Disgraceland ad free and get access to a monthly exclusive episode, weekly bonus content and more, become a Disgraceland All Access member at ⁠disgracelandpod.com/membership⁠. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - ⁠GET THE NEWSLETTER⁠ Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠ ⁠X⁠ (formerly Twitter)  ⁠Facebook Fan Group⁠ ⁠TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Double Elvis.

0:07.8

Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

0:13.5

Happy Halloween, everybody. This is a Halloween episode.

0:16.8

I tried to have a sense of humor about it.

0:18.8

If you take yourself and you your punk rock too seriously,

0:21.7

you might want to skip this episode and dive into your back issues of maximum rock and roll instead.

0:26.6

But if you like to be entertained and find Glenn Danzig to be as unintentionally hysterical as he is talented,

0:32.6

then strap yourselves in for this special Halloween episode of Disgraceland.

0:38.1

Meloton! The stories about the misfits are insane.

0:49.4

They were rumored to have been arrested for grave robbing.

0:52.2

They were locked up abroad for attacking skinheads,

0:55.2

incited riots at their shows here in the States.

0:58.6

Creatively driven by frontman Glendanzig,

1:01.4

the misfits invented what has come to be known as horror core,

1:05.3

coming up in a hardcore scene that was as violent

1:07.6

as it was inspiring.

1:09.8

Growing up, Glen Danzig was obsessed with the weird, with the strange, with the horrific.

1:14.9

Early comic books, heavy metal, scandal rags, and B-movies helped fill the void in him

1:19.4

created by an ever-present feeling of alienation.

1:23.1

This inspiration fueled him, filled his imagination, and helped him create one of the most

1:27.8

enduring musical cult followings of all time. It also inspired him and his bandmates to create great

1:34.5

music. Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That was a

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