Collection II (1995) reissued 'We Are 138' and 'Attitude', the remixed version of 'Last Caress', and the previously unreleased 'Return of the Fly'. Misfits followed in 1986, reissuing the tracks 'Bullet' and 'Hollywood Babylon' as well as the overdubbed version of 'She'. None of the remaining Static Age tracks were released during the early era of the band, though a re-recorded version of ' Teenagers from Mars' appeared on the ' Horror Business' single in 1979, and a live version of 'We Are 138' appeared on the Evilive EP in 1982.Īfter the band's breakup in 1983, Danzig overdubbed guitar and bass tracks on nine of the unreleased Static Age tracks ('Static Age', 'TV Casualty', 'Hybrid Moments', 'Come Back', 'Some Kinda Hate', 'Theme for a Jackal', 'Angelfuck', 'Spinal Remains', and 'She'), releasing these new versions on the 1985 Legacy of Brutality compilation album. Danzig recruited new members Bobby Steele and Joey Image and the Misfits shifted their style away from the traditional punk rock of the Static Age sessions to a more horror film-inspired direction. With the band's future far from certain, the Static Age recordings were shelved indefinitely. While on tour in Canada that October, guitarist Franché Coma abruptly quit the band, followed by drummer Mr. Instead, the Misfits released four of the new tracks (' Bullet', ' We Are 138', ' Attitude', and 'Hollywood Babylon') as the 'Bullet' single in June 1978 on Danzig's newly created label Plan 9 Records (the same four tracks, along with a remixed version of 'Last Caress', were reissued on the Beware EP in January 1980). However, the band were unable to find a record label interested in releasing the album. Ultimately fourteen of the seventeen tracks produced during the sessions were assembled for the Misfits' anticipated debut album, to be titled Static Age. Due to time constraints, the band recorded the songs live in the studio with only a few takes and very few overdubs.

Recordings in New York City with engineer and producer Dave Achelis. In January and February 1978 the Misfits, then consisting of Danzig, guitarist Franché Coma, bassist Jerry Only, and drummer Mr. The parties came to a settlement, with Danzig accepting thirty hours of studio time for his band in exchange for the rights to the Blank Records name. Several months later Mercury Records issued a Pere Ubu record on their own Blank Records imprint, unaware that Danzig held a trademark on the name.

In August 1977 The Misfits released their debut single ' Cough/Cool' on Blank Records, a label operated by the band's lead vocalist Glenn Danzig. Although it was the first album the band ever recorded, it was not released in its entirety until 1996. Static Age is an album by the American horror punk band Misfits, recorded in 1978.

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