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Walk Among Us was the eighth release from the Lodi, New Jersey punk band The Misfits. The band's first full-length album to be released (although it was actually the 3rd to be recorded- see Static Age and 12 Hits from Hell), it was originally co-released by Ruby and Slash Records as JRR804 in March of 1982.

It was the product of a January 1982 recording session at Quad Teck in Los Angeles, California in which Glenn Danzig, for the most part, remixed previously recorded songs, overdubbing additional guitar tracks. Danzig also recorded new vocals for "Vampira" and mixed for the first time the live recording of "Mommy Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight?" that was recorded at the same time as the Evilive release.

The majority of the songs were originally recorded in a variety of sessions throughout early 1981 at the Mix-O-Lydian Studio in Boonton, New Jersey. The dates of these sessions are unknown, but they were all mixed at one time. "Vampira", "Devils Whorehouse", and "Astro Zombies" were recorded and mixed separately at Mix-O-Lydian in August of 1981. "Hatebreeders" was recorded in June of 1981 at Newsoundland in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. "Mommy Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight?", the only live track on the album, was recorded on December 17, 1981 at the Ritz in New York, New York.

The cover for Walk Among Us features the famous "Rat-Bat-Spider" that menaces the intrepid astronauts in 1959's Angry Red Planet. The flying saucers were obtained from 1956's Earth Versus The Flying Saucers. The title itself is, perhaps, a reference to the 1956 film The Creature Walks Among Us, the third Creature from the Black Lagoon feature. The first LP pressing has a pink cover with a pink logo, while the second pressing's cover is purple with a pink logo.

Reissues since 1988 in all formats have featured the purple cover with a green logo. Strangely, the CD insert contains a picture of the 1979 lineup of the band with Bobby Steele and Joey Image, who didn't play on the album, instead of actual performers Doyle and Googy.

However, recent reissues of the CD have in fact contained Doyle and Googy in the insert, as opposed to Steele and Image.

Track listing

  1. "20 Eyes" – 1:45
  2. "I Turned into a Martian" – 1:41
  3. "All Hell Breaks Loose" – 1:47
  4. "Vampira" – 1:26
  5. "Nike A Go Go" – 2:16
  6. "Hatebreeders" – 3:08
  7. "Mommy Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight?" (live) – 2:01
  8. "Night of the Living Dead" – 1:57
  9. "Skulls" – 2:00
  10. "Violent World" – 1:46
  11. "Devils Whorehouse" – 1:45
  12. "Astro Zombies" – 2:14
  13. "Braineaters" – 0:56
  • All songs written by Glenn Danzig
  • Tracks 1-7: Side A on the original LP; tracks 8-13: Side B

Credits

  • Glenn Danzig – vocals, guitar on "Vampira", "Devils Whorehouse", "Astro Zombies", overdubbed guitar on all tracks except "Mommy Can I Go Out & Kill Tonight?"
  • Jerry Only – bass, background vocals
  • Doyle – guitar, background vocals on "Hatebreeders", "Vampira", "Devils Whorehouse", "20 Eyes", "I Turned Into a Martian"
  • Arthur Googy – drums
  • Mike Taylor – engineer on all tracks except "Hatebreeders"
  • Pat Burnette – engineer on "Hatebreeders"

Bootleg Pressings

A pressing of this album was issued sometime in 2006 as a Double-7". The vinyl is green with blank yellow/orange center labels. The etchings bare the mark "FTW 13" and a side etching "A", "B", "C", & "D" respectively. The artwork seems to be an exact duplicate of the original Ruby pressing, with the major difference being that the artwork is in green monotone. Inner artwork was not included. The sound quality is not far off from a well-played copy of the original pressing.

  • Track Listing

Side A (1-4); Side B (5-7); Side C (8-10); Side D (11-13)

Trivia

  • The band Alkaline Trio referenced this album in the song "We've Had Enough" in the lyrics "Put 'Walk Among Us' on and turn it up."
  • The song "Astro Zombies" has been covered by many bands, most notably being Pennywise ND My Chemical Romance
  • The song "I Turned Into A Martian" was covered in a spanish version by Molotov
  • Colin of Arabia covered "Skulls" on their Four Scenes, One Family split.
  • The album is referenced in the NOFX song "Fungus" from their April 2005 release of the 7" Of The Month Club. The 22 second song features the lyrics , "I hate the radio but I like Fungus, The only punk rock station, it's humongous, I think they just played Misfits 'Walk Among Us', Fungus 53".
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