Interview with former Misfits Vocalist Michale Graves

April 06, 2026

Interview with former Misfits Vocalist Michale Graves

by Mick Michaels

Cosmick View: Hello, Michale, and welcome to The Cosmick View! Thanks for taking some time out of your day to speak with us. It's greatly appreciated.

MG: Hello, and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you and yours.

CV: What does the upcoming "God Bless America Tour" represent to you both personally and career-wise?

MG: This upcoming tour is another opportunity for me to get out into the world and start playing and speaking again. It is always a good thing for me to be able to perform. Playing and singing and making music is everything to me. I am lifted to a different place along with my audience when I play and I love doing it so much.

CV: With a new label, the upcoming tour, and a strong sense of purpose, do you see this time in your life as being a new beginning for your music or more of a milestone celebration?

MG: I think that it is more of a milestone. The dream in my heart began with love and acceptance of Jesus Christ and a feeling to want to communicate that to people. Along with all of the other feelings music made me feel in my soul mostly I understood music to convey what love is to people. That’s what I thought music was about. When I was very young I asked my Mother why every song we heard on the radio was about “love”. She told me it was because “love made the world go ‘round.”

CV: The "God Bless America Tour" will be a blending of "acoustic music, testimony, and storytelling." Can you tell us more about what fans can expect at the shows?

MG: These acoustic shows are very intimate and powerful performances that I do. Folks have an opportunity to meet me and ask me questions. I tell stories about songs and my experiences. I interact with the other artists that are on the shows. I work hard to deliver emotional, hard hitting and unique performances that people will remember for years to come.

CV: Do you feel music is a vehicle that invites people to be more open to messages of social, political, and even religious subject matter where otherwise they wouldn't pay as much attention? Is music that powerful in your opinion?

MG: I think music can be used that way around a cult of personality especially to influence people to be more open to those kinds of messages, yes. In a vacuum someone will hear a song and come to there own conclusions depending on how the music moved them and what is happening in their own life. But songs in my opinion are like little spells that can for sure move you to and fro and express what sometimes can’t be said. Alduous Huxley once said “after silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” There is great power in music.

CV: Do you feel music has to have a message to properly connect with an audience? Is there a particular message you want to convey?

MG: NO, I don’t think there has to be some sort of banner message to properly connect to an audience. To each there own. Whatever a song does to you or for you it does, it is a personal experience. I seek to create music that can find its way into peoples heart and soul and do whatever it does to them. Years ago I spent time working as an EMT. One day I attended to a man who had stepped in front of a train to kill himself. I was the first medic on scene as it was so close to my house I responded before anyone else. On the way to the hospital I remember praying to God to help me make the right decision about my life and career and direction. I had been praying a lot about it. That night I was sitting alone and I came to the conclusion that although I was a very good EMT and I quite loved the job, that I was best serving the Lord here on earth by getting to people before they stepped in front of a train. I knew that music did that sort of thing and made the decision to start practicing and playing real hard once again.

CV: Musically speaking, many critics believe Modern Rock is missing a critical element that once made it timeless, iconic, and legendary, citing music’s now cookie-cutter, formulated approach for its lack of substance. What's your take...is there something to such an assessment?

MG: I do think there is something to that assessment, yes. I don’t even know and can’t even site any up and coming Rock bands presently. I know there are many older rock bands, bands that I know and came up with and listened to that are making music and or touring again. But where’s the next Rolling Stones or Guns N Roses or Black Crowes or Aerosmith who’s the next Metallica, U2 ?... I don’t know. Everything has changed so much and we find ourselves hearing much more noise and far less signal.

CV: Despite some of the criticism, there are those who feel Rock is now in a revival. With the recent popularity of artists like Yungblud, Rock appears to be taking on a whole attitude and swagger. Do you see this being the case for Rock? Or has Rock yet to make its comeback?

MG: I don’t think Rock has made its comeback, yet… if it is going to make comeback at all, I just don’t know.

CV: Even with many of the ups and downs and ins and outs associated with having a music career, what do you believe being in music gave you that no other career path would have?

MG: I am blessed to have the opportunity to uniquely express myself through the medium of music, art, entertainment and outreach. All of the things that I get to do through these things aren’t possible doing anything else. I used the example of being an EMT as opposed to being a musician. Both of those things gave me the opportunity to help people. It’s the kind of help I am giving that is the difference.

CV: In addition to the upcoming spring tour, what more can fans expect coming from you in 2026 and beyond?

MG: Fans can expect me to release and share much more music, videos and live performances. There will be a marked uptick in music, videos, The Michale Graves podcast, The Radio Show and the official launch of Monsters Ministry …A LOT more to come this year, I’m just getting started.

CV: Thanks again, Michale, for taking the time to share with our readers. We wish you all the best and continued success.

MG: God bless you, thank you

Check out Michale at:

Website: www.officialmichalegraves.com

X: @radiodeadly

Instagram: @realmichalegraves

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My name is Mick Michaels...I'm an artist, music fan, songwriter, producer, author, show host, big dreamer and guitarist for the traditional Heavy Metal band Corners of Sanctuary. Writing has always been a creative outlet for me; what I couldn't say in speech, I was able to do with the written word. Writing has given me a voice and a way for me to create on a multitude of platforms including music and song, articles, independent screenplays, books and now, artist interviews. The Cosmick View is an opportunity to raise the bar and showcase artists in a positive and inspirational light. For me, it's another out-of-this-world adventure.