This Music Leaves Stains presents the full story behind the Misfits and their ubiquitous, haunting skull logo: a story of unique talent, strange timing, clashing personalities, and incredible music that helped shape rock as we know it today. James Greene, Jr. maps this narrative from the band's birth at the tail end of the original punk movement through their messy dissolve at the dawn of the 1980s to the legal warring and inexplicable reunions that helped carry the band into the 21st century. Music junkies of any stripe will surely find themselves engrossed in this saga that finally pieces together the full story of the greatest horror punk band that ever existed.