At the tail-end of the 1980s, a bunch of New York/New Jersey bands were sifting through the dying embers of glam metal and creating strange and wonderful new hybrids.
Revelling in the misery of drugs and poverty and quarter-life malaise, D Generation became the glam-grunge emissaries of the Eternal Bummer. Mixing traditional rock’n’roll bullshit with cosmic teenage dirtbag fantasies, Monster Magnet turned 80’s glam into a 70’s sci-fi Jack Kirby comic book, pulsing with primary colours and pill-shovelling space monsters.
