| 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 performs in bizarre costumes made of latex and
papier-mache, and their stage show features fake pagan
rituals, corpses spewing washable bodily fluids on the
audience, and sometimes a mechanical giant maggot.
Gwar
have proven to be a consistent live act and with each
new stage act they have recorded a new album. Unlike
most career bands though, Gwar have released almost as
many full-length videos as they have albums. Along
with the previously mentioned Phallus in Wonderland
they have 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 their most
entertaining. Their subsequent albums, including This
Toilet Earth (1993) and We Kill Everything (1999),
have repeated many of the shock themes that gained
them 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. The
following year Live at Fuji was released.
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Website:
GWAR.net
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