12 Hits from Hell:
The MSP Sessions
is a cancelled
studio album
by American
horror punk band
The Misfits
It was recorded in 1980
but went unreleased.
Caroline Records
attempted to release
it in 2001,
but band members
Glenn Danzig
and
Jerry Only
called off production
and the album
was scrapped.
Background
In August 7, 1980,
the Misfits
recorded twelve songs
at Master Sound
Productions studios
with the intention of
releasing a
full-length album.
The band's lineup
at this time included
singer
Glenn Danzig,
guitarist
Bobby Steele,
bassist
Jerry Only,
and drummer
Arthur Googy.
During the sessions,
Only was grooming
his younger brother
Doyle
to join the band,
and Doyle
recorded his own
guitar tracks
and overdubs separately
in addition to Steele's.
The tracks
were mixed
in September,
but in October,
Steele was ejected
from the band
in favor of Doyle
and the planned album
was scrapped.
Four of the songs
were released in 1981,
with
"London Dungeon",
"Horror Hotel"
and
"Ghouls Night Out"
being released as
3 Hits from Hell
while the
"Halloween"
single included both
"Halloween II".
The band used
the remainder
of the recordings
as demos
for their
1982 album
Walk Among Us.
The Misfits
broke up in 1983,
but after a series
of legal battles
in the late 1980s
and early 1990s,
Only and Doyle
regained the rights
to record and perform as
the Misfits,
sharing merchandising rights
with Danzig,
who holds writing credits
on all of the Misfits material
written between
1977 and 1983.
Only and Doyle
formed a new incarnation
of the band
and released
two albums
during the 1990s.
During the intervening years,
several of the tracks
from the August 1980 sessions
were released in
various mixes
on compilation albums:
"Halloween"
appeared on
Legacy of Brutality (1985),
"Night of the Living Dead",
"Vampira",
"Skulls"
and
"Astro Zombies"
appeared on
Misfits (1986),
and
"Horror Hotel"
appeared on
Collection II (1995).
The Misfits box set
(1996)
contained the most
complete collection
of songs
from these sessions,
collecting the complete
Legacy of Brutality,
Misfits,
and
Collection II
albums
as well as a
disc of
unreleased
studio recordings
with the original mixes of
"I Turned into a Martian",
"Skulls",
"Night of the Living Dead",
"Astro Zombies",
"Where Eagles Dare",
"Violent World"
and
"Halloween II"
from the 1980 sessions.
In 2001,
Caroline Records
announced that
they would be
releasing the
complete 1980 sessions
on October 30
under the title
12 Hits from Hell,
including an
alternate take of
"London Dungeon",
and sent promotional copies
of the album
to the band members.
However,
production was called off
after
Glenn Danzig
and
Jerry Only
expressed concerns
with the
album's layout,
packaging,
liner notes,
mixing and mastering.
All distribution copies
of the album
were destroyed
and only the
promotional copies remain.
As a result,
some copies
still managed to
reach critics.
Notes '
Three Tracks
Were ADDED
To This Making
The 12 Tracks
Now 15
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TRACKLIST
Halloween
Vampira
I Turned Into a Martian
Skulls
London Dungeon
Night of the Living Dead
Horror Hotel
Ghouls Night Out
Astro Zombies
Where Eagles Dare
Violent World
Halloween II
London Dungeon
(Alternate Take) [*]
Die, Die My Darling [*]
Braineaters [*]
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