Earlier today, for no apparent reason, I had the urge to listen to the cassette. I hadn't played it in years, and I can't remember any of the songs, but for some reason it seemed like a good idea to pull it out and give it some fresh ears.
Unfortunately, life distracted me, and I ended up listening to some bootleg live Samhain instead. It wasn't Kryst the Conqueror, but I think it scratched that itch for the time being.
I've always been puzzled as to why Kryst the Conqueror had to be such a radical departure from the Misfits. At the time it came out you could say it was because the Jerry and Doyle wanted nothing to do with the Misfits sound and decided to go a radically different direction, but time would prove that to be wrong. You could, if you believe Wikipedia, say that the brothers (Jerry and Doyle, in case you aren't familiar with the history of the Misfits) thought this band would be an almost counter message to what Danzig had done since the Misfits disbanded. (Wikipedia states that Jerry found Danzig's later music to be "Satanic," something that was never brought up with me in my dealings with them.) Either way, you can't argue that Kryst the Conqueror was about as different from the Misfits as you could imagine the brothers getting while still keeping a guitar-heavy rock sound.
As it stands, Kryst the Conqueror is another interesting side note to the history of the Misfits, like Dr. Chud's Sacred Thrash and Gorgeous Frankenstein. It's not the Misfits and clearly isn't meant to be, but it's also not anything you would expect out of anyone even remotely associated with that historical band.
Now I really want to find that cassette just to see how well it has stood up through time. My guess? Not nearly as well as the Misfits have.
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