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| GWAR (an acronym for God What an Awful Racket) is thrash metal\\\'s answer to the more mainstream satire of Spinal Tap. Gory, sexually perverse, and scatological in the extreme, GWAR was formed at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond as an experiment in marketing |
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GWAR (an acronym for God What an Awful Racket) is thrash metal\\\'s answer to the more mainstream satire of Spinal Tap. Gory, sexually perverse, and scatological in the extreme, GWAR was formed at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond as an experiment in marketing strategy by several musicians, art students, and dancers. The group claims to consist of all-powerful interplanetary warriors, descended from aliens stranded in Antarctica and initially created from the lowest filth in the universe, who have come to Earth to sexually enslave and/or slaughter the human race. All members perform under aliases; the main group consists of Oderus Urungus (vocals, born David Brockie), Balsac the Jaws of Death (guitar, born Steve Douglas), Flattus Maximus (guitar, born Peter Lee), Beefcake the Mighty (bass, born Michael Bishop), and Jizmak the Gusher (drums, born Brad Roberts). Auxiliary characters include Techno-Destructo (occasional vocals, born Hunter Jackson), Slymenstra Hymen (born Danyelle Stampe), the Sexecutioner (born Charles Varga), and Sleazy P. Martini (manager, born Don Drakulich). The group performs in bizarre costumes made of latex and papier-mâché, and their stage show features fake pagan rituals, corpses spewing washable bodily fluids on the audience, and sometimes a mechanical giant maggot. Not surprisingly, authorities in several locations have not taken kindly to the group -- Charlotte, NC, fined Urungus on an obscenity charge and banned them for a year, while police in Athens, GA, shut down a concert in 1993. With the help of the ACLU, GWAR sued and settled out of court, donating their award to charity. GWAR is best appreciated with its visual aspects, which are far more creative than their music; indeed, the group received a somewhat stunning Grammy nomination in 1993 for its long-form home video Phallus in Wonderland.
Gwar has survived numerous personnel changes over the years, something that has been easier for this band than most as the \\\"characters\\\" never change, only those playing them. Despite a decline in media attention, Gwar has proven to be a consistent live act and continues to record a new album with each new stage act. Unlike most career bands, however, Gwar has released almost as many full-length videos as they have albums. Along with the previously mentioned Phallus in Wonderland, the group has also assaulted the eyes with Skulhed Face (1994), Rendezvous with Ragnarok (1997), Dawn of the Day of the Night of the Penguin (1998), and It\\\'s Sleazy (2001). Musically, Gwar\\\'s early gem Scumdogs of the Universe (1990) is considered to be one of the band\\\'s most entertaining works. Subsequent albums, including This Toilet Earth (1993) and We Kill Everything (1999), have repeated many of the shock themes that gained GWAR notoriety early on. After a few Gwar-less years, the band returned in 2004 on a new label, DRT Entertainment, with a new album, War Party. Live from Mt. Fuji was released the following year, and the band returned to the studio in 2006 for Beyond Hell.
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these guys look bad fucking
ass!!
never heard them tho
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| | That's fucked up | metal_head4ever | Can't go wrong with a band promoted by
Bevis & Butthead | SlipKnoT_KA | That's true, you can't go wrong, but
then again you can't go wrong with Beavis
& Butthead. | SHMOTZ | | GWAR rules | Sleazy_McSmutbag | is this all?! GWAR should have more than this
dipshit messages.... y'all better give
'em some more lovin' | soupcans | I haven't heard Gwar in a long time. The
last time I heard Gwar was the Ragnarok
album. I used to love Scumdogs of the
Universe. | Tom_from_Offset | I love how Gwar was just an experiment gone
proffesional. I mean their name stands for
God What AN AWefull Raquet. It ironic that
they do it for a living. It was an experiment
for school. To see how much people could
take. and this just shows our society today
can let you get away with pretty much any
thing even a penis projectile cannon,
shooting fake sperm on the audience. Crazy
world. | Captain_Feces | GWAR is fucking hardcore
anyone who thinks dif can
SUCK MY DICK AND BITE MY ASS!!!!!!!! | slipknotboy110363 | Captain you are no true GWAR fan. The name
isn't an acronym for ANYTHING. Dave
Brockie (Oderus) said it was kind of like
GWAAAAHAHHRHHHGAHWGHWGWHARRR... but club
owners didn't want to put it up. Before
that they kind of were Death Piggy. They
ruled too. Look up their song Boner. | Sleazy_McSmutbag | AMEN! hell ya! (never thought i would use
those two phrases in the same sentence | brennen_90 | | kick ass | Chasepw133 | Sleazy_McSmutbag, you are sad and a shallow
humen being, first of all i am a true GWAR
fan , you are just young and delusional, and
think everything at all times is seriously
real, that is the storie of how they came to
be, so take you little petty insults and take
them somewhere , were they can actually hurt
someone, you do not want to get into such
arguements with me, you obviously are
ignorant to GWAR's beginings, and are not
a fan. They were a bunch of jazz musicians
from Virginia, and the group was just a
project for school. The Name does stand for
GOD WHAT AN AWEFULL RAQUET, because they are
a joke band, look into it. I mean god you are
almost as pathetic as those ICP fans, oh wait
you probubly listen to them dont you. | Captain_Feces | GWAR is the hands down, one of the most
amazing bands that I have ever had the
pleasure of listening to...
Actually, they are so good; I can recall
reading about GWAR touring right now to
promote their new album to be released in
September of 2008. I can't wait until it
comes out! | vf4efan | | | |
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