Michale Graves

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In the fall of 1995 Michale Graves was nineteen and recording a demo in Lodi, New Jersey with his little known band “Mopes” when the owner mentioned that some of his friends were looking for a singer and that he might be what they were looking for. After some contemplation, Michale made a phone call to schedule an audition that would ultimately change the course of his life forever.

On Halloween night in 1995 after a brief appearance on stage at The Roseland Ballroom in New York City, he became the lead singer and played his first official gig at a club called Coney Island High with one of the most legendary punk rock bands of all time, Misfits. During Michale’s six year tenure with The Misfits, they headlined and supported tours with bands such as Marilyn Manson, Megadeth, Anthrax, GWAR and Life of Agony.

During this time they released three major albums. In 1996 The Misfits recorded their first album in almost twenty years entitled “American Psycho”, which was released by Geffen Records. The Misfits next release was a live album entitled, “Evil Live II”. It was a collection of live songs taken from shows on the relentless and very successful American Psycho Tour. October 1999 marked a third studio album called “Famous Monsters” released by Roadrunner Records. That year, Japan’s premier rock n roll publication, “Burrn Magazine”, voted Michale Graves “Vocalist of the Year”. Famous Monsters went on to become the biggest selling title ever for Roadrunner Japan.

1	Teenage Monster	32
2	Beware	26
3	We Wait	24
4	Exit	23
5	Godzilla	22
5	Fountains of Heroine	22
5	Monster	22
8	Punk Rock Is Dead	21
8	Nobody Thinks About Me	21
10	Creepy Crawly	20
10	1119	20
10	Storybook and Rhyme	20
13	One Moment Away	19
14	Butchershop	18
15	Queen Taste	17

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djcrimsondeath wrote:
last month

Better than Danzig!

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Odessius wrote:
last month

Join Sick Kids, Sick Taste!

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full_massa wrote:
last month

download michale graves albums at http://radioladesatan.blogspot.com/

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zirus121 wrote:
last month

Graves sucks. There was only one Misfits and it was a punk band with Danzig. Not a gay rock band with this tool bag

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KaneRobot wrote:
June 2008

Fortunately, to see NathanBolstad making an ass of himself, you don't have to go anywhere. It's right on this page.

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Punkadelphia wrote:
May 2008

I'm pretty sure he was joking on the Daly Show. Was funny as shit either way. GRAVES RULES!

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Volume3 wrote:
May 2008

Well, he didn't make an arse of himself really did he, you can tell that at some points he was just doing it to play along with the show.

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NathanBolstad wrote:
April 2008

Graves making an ass of himself: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=109861&title=the-clash

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KaneRobot wrote:
March 2008

I'm slowly coming around to the idea that Graves' solo stuff is as good as his Misfits stuff. Stuff like 1119 is pretty goddamn awesome. Glad to see Gotham Road playing a show...even if it is just a one time thing hopefully it'll plant a seed for them to do a small tour or something soon.

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nonsensor wrote:
March 2008

graves > danzig? I didn't actually realize there were people who thought that way. Consider me educated. And sad. BTW I was at the reunion tour in DC ('96? 97?) where he beat some guy and ran off into the street like a chode. They pulled people from the audience to sing the rest of the set and 90% of them were better.

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hurt138 wrote:
February 2008

graves was the age of true brilliance, danzig was just raw. I prefer graves over all, but danzig has his moments. and both make the current state of the misfits seem like a golden era.

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cholo11 wrote:
February 2008

WTF? Graves>Danzig? You have problems people. Yeah, Graves is a very good singers, he is one of my favourites but, better than Danzig? I'll have yo deny that one.

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th__hc wrote:
January 2008

god & king.. the great voice!

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SIXX6SIXX wrote:
January 2008

MICHALE's the best singer of the Misfits! But DANZIG was/is great, too!

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RoyalSkull wrote:
January 2008

At least go back to the Fits so you can be of some use...and so we dont have to listen to jerry sing anymore

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spraypainthero wrote:
December 2007

what a tool

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Lukinx wrote:
November 2007

Really... ...to be honest Michale Graves solo stuff is terrible. What happened to this guy?????

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KaneRobot wrote:
November 2007

On a more important topic...need to figure out how to classify the tracks from Illusions. There are two possible issues here: 1. The CD is actually credited as Michale Graves & Damien Echols and not Michale Graves, but as Echols was just a writer and a performer, just listing it as Michale Graves is probably ok. The second is a little trickier, as it looks like the CD database just brings up...

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KaneRobot wrote:
November 2007

...the name without any special notation (example - Teenage Monster on Illusions comes up as the PRID version, even though they are totally different). Maybe add (Illusions version) or (acoustic) to the song titles on Illusions?

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Mhardylt wrote:
October 2007

Michale Graves was better with Misfits. Now Graves is nothing.

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