10 Rock Music Bands That Replaced Their Singer

10. The Misfits

The entire legacy of the Misfits almost seems to go hand in hand with what Glenn Danzig was doing. Becoming known as the metal version of Elvis Presley, the magnetic stage presence that he brought to the horror punk gods became one of their main calling cards in the early days, from the straight up crooning happening in parts of Hybrid Moments to the screams of Mommy Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?. So when the Dark King of Rock and Roll walks out the door, it felt like the Misfits were pretty much going to die with him.

From day one, Glenn was never just the singer of the band, always writing most of the songs and bringing them in for the band to play and arrange into classic Misfits tunes. Since his later projects like Samhain seemed to be him mining the same kind of dark aesthetic, it was time for someone else to take the reins, and Jerry Only ended up becoming the de facto leader of the band, drafting in Michale Graves to sing behind the mic.

While you can definitely tell Graves is trying his best Danzig impression on a majority of his songs, the quality was still there across every single track, like the sticky hook of Dig Up Her Bones. Glenn was now MIA, but the Misfits were getting their sound down to a science now, with loud guitars and sounding like the best hard rock joint to come rising out of the crypt.