Misfits + AFI at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

From the time of their first gig in 1977, the MISFITS and their iconic imagery went on to become one of the most crucially influential, genre-defying bands to ever emerge from North America deconstructing and redefining rock music. Immortalizing B horror films in their music, they developed a ghoulishly unique persona and rebellion all their own.

After a split with original singer Glenn Danzig in the mid 1980s, The Misfits were resurrected in the 1990s by co-founder Jerry Only, (the only consistent member since the band’s inception in 1977 to present), helming on Bass & Vocals over the course of the decades that followed.

2016 brought The ORIGINAL MISFITS triumphant return, reuniting Original Singer/Songwriter GLENN DANZIG and Original Bassist JERRY ONLY for the first time in over 30 years. Joined by long-time guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, the Original Misfits have played sold out arenas and stadiums and in 2019, took the crown as the only first wave punk band to ever headline the world’s most famous arena, Madison Square Garden—in a SOLD OUT performance no less.

The MISFITS with Danzig’s anthemic songs and unmistakable voice, Only’s ferocious bass sound, and the band’s melody-induced choruses and authentically bruising musicianship, cemented their importance with all ensuing generations. And now legions of diehard fans from around the world have the opportunity to hear the Original Band that forges a level of intensity unprecedented in the new millennium.

AFI are leaders, not followers. A collective in a perpetual state of creative evolution as fluid as the evocative figures contorting on the cover of Bodies, their newest collection of songs. The record is a snapshot of unrelenting artists in motion, unconcerned with compromise or outside demands.

The band initially summoned a steady subcultural groundswell in the mid-90s, devoid of careerist ambitions. The band first made music as teenaged misfits in an obscure Northern California town, steadily assembling a dense catalog over the years marked by its diversity and authenticity.

The platinum success of Sing the Sorrow blazed a path for a generation of hardcore-punk weaned bands to similarly crossover. 2006’s Decemberunderground upended expectations again and earned AFI a second platinum plaque. Crash Love was another adventurous turn, with expansive and almost optimistic-sounding melodies, glistening with emotion. The haunting Burials arrived four years later, debuting in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. The self-titled follow-up, commonly referred to as “the Blood Album,” became AFI’s second-highest charting album since their inception, debuting at No. 5 in 2017.