Gwar

War Party was supported in fall 2004 by the Mock the Vote tour. They toured worldwide in 2004 with Ben Kweller, The Vines, The Music and Sparta amongst others to promote their new album. Dave Brockie has said "...basically GWAR pledges support to the powers who support the war, and we make such a right-wing statement that the right wing would be ashamed to have us." GWAR still has more gratuitous violent imagery in "Womb With a View" and "Bonesnapper" and retains some trademark silliness in the Beefcake hollered french punk song "The Bonus Plan". Also released in 2004 was the single "Megalomaniac" with a bonus song "Monuments and Melodies". War Party is the most political GWAR album since America Must Be Destroyed tackling such subject matter as the 2004 american election and the war in Iraq in such songs as "Bring Back the Bomb", "The Krosstika", "War Party", "The Reaganator" and "Can't Kill Terror". One song left off the album, the 26-minute long instrumental entitled "The Odyssey" featured on the Halo 2 soundtrack. War Party continues the decidedly more metal focus reintroduced in Violence Has Arrived. Other singles were "Talk Shows on Mute" and "Agoraphobia".

Their new album is called War Party and was released October 26, 2004. The first single off of ACLOTM was "Megalomaniac", which raised controversy when it was said to be an attack on the Bush administration and was banned from daytime view on MTV, despite the band saying that it was not an attack on a particular person, rather a comment on some people's negative attitudes. After Violence Has Arrived, Gwar switched labels from Metal Blade to DRT Entertainment. It combined the experimental leanings of S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and Fungus Amongus with the melodic rock of Make Yourself and Morning View. Gwar takes on more "medieval" themes this time around, such as torture ("The Wheel") and conjures up some truly ugly imagery in songs such as "Licksore", "Beauteous Rot", and "The Apes of Wrath". Their newest album, A Crow Left of the Murder, released in 2004 was a new turn for the band. Violence Has Arrived (2001), re-attains the brutal focus of their earlier albums. It is similar to Scumdogs, in that Brockie is now the dominant voice of the band again, and the theme is centered on generalized carnage. Over a year after creation, the foundation has raised under $400,000, giving to organisations such as the International Red Cross, the Painted Turtle, Operation Smile and the Surfrider Foundation.

This album is mostly a collection of gruesomely funny jokes ("Fucking an Animal" and "Nitro Burning Funny Bong"), and contains a bit less brutality than their previous works. The Make Yourself Foundation does not accept cash donations from fans. "Short History of the End of the World" and "Jagermonsta" are excellent examples of thrash-punk, while Mike Derks lends his vocals to the almost sensitive ballad, "Mary Anne". Incubus also releases a CD series of "bootlegs" which feature recordings of live appearances and exlusive material, which directly benefit the charity. The band once again offers the funny ("Fishfuck") the gross ("Babyraper"), and the weird ("Penile Drip", in which Oderus does his best Brak impression). Funds are gathered solely from ticket sales, merchandise, events, online auctions and album proceeds. As detailed within the liner notes, Gwar meets a new alien warrior, Scroda Moon (Hunter Jackson) who has to find the pieces of a broken tablet which, when put together, will allow them access to a Portal Potty (or a giant, magical toilet) that can warp them off Earth for good. The Make Yourself Foundation was started by the founding members of the band in 2003 as a non-profit organization which donates to causes the band deems worthy.

This a whimsical album full of punkish potboilers, taking a note from Primus in its surrealistic goofiness. Also on the main stage were The Donnas, Jurassic 5, A Perfect Circle, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave, and Jane's Addiction. Gwar returned in 1999 with We Kill Everything, which hearkens back to their hardcore roots. In 2003, the new Incubus played at the newly-revived Lollapalooza concert. A few more jokes ("Scallop Boat", "Gonna Kill U", "I Suck on My Thumb"), round out the album. He seems to have impressed because he was announced as the replacement for newly departed bassist Alex Katunich. "In Her Fear" is Oderus's swan song, and Beefcake the Mighty gives a memorable ballad in "Hate Love Songs". The band later said this was his 'audition'.

which is worthy of mention. Added to the line-up of the Time Lapse Consortium was Ben Kenney on the bass, from the band The Roots. Hunter Jackson also returns in "The Private Pain of Techno Destructo", and there is an odd ballad about the rotting corpse of Sammy Davis Jr. A bootleg was released of the show at the Roxy in Los Angelas. It is perhaps most notable as their longest album, and also as the album that contains Stampe's solo number: "Don't Need a Man". He also asked for help from Suzi Katayama, who had worked on Morning View, to arrange the orchestra. There are likely more styles experimented with here than on any other album. However, despite his intention of a solo project, he ended up enlisting all the remaining members of the band, except Chris Kilmore.

It can be best described as Gwar's bid for musical expansion. He wrote the music himself and it came out as a jazz/funk mix. Bungle. During the break, guitarist Mike Einziger set up the Time Lapse Consortium. He gathered together a group of musicians to perform a select number of shows. The band on Carnival of Chaos (1997) seems to be influenced even more by Faith No More and Mr. This new info was not released to the general public and the band took a break from Incubus to deal with the news and to take a breather from the constant pressure of writing music. Finally, the instrumental "Surf of Syn" shows the technical side of the band in full force. Dirk Lance), decided to leave the group.

In the closer, for once, Gwar actually shows a serious side in detailing their problems with protestors (the ballad, "None But the Brave"). After the tour, bassist Alex Katunich(a.k.a. in "Think You Oughta Know This", and there is an energetic duet between Oderus and Slymenstra in "Fire in the Loins". Incubus was allowed to design a Civic given away in a drawing. In other news, Drakulich does a mock-rapping bit as Sleazy P. In April 2002, the band hit the road again, this time as the headline band for Honda's Civic Tour with Hoobastank. The highlights of the album include "Dirty, Filthy" (a rousing comedy anthem), the title track, and "Meat Sandwich". Coupled with this, the band were now selling out big arenas and became a household name in the industry.1 (http://enjoyincubus.com/bio.html).

As it could be supposed, the concept is about the ridicule of Christianity (especially in the song, "Martyr Dumb"). The success of Morning View and "Wish You Were Here" marked the band as a truely popular, mainstream rock band, reaching #2 in the billboards, with Morning View reaching #2 in the album charts, selling 440,000 copies in its first week. But Syn is drawn to Slymenstra's alien baby, for a reason that is left for the listener to uncover.. The other singles from the album were "Nice To Know You", "Warning" and "Are You In" and a radio single, "Circles". Syn is representing the Warrior Pope, who is demanding that all bow down to him and obey his insane whims. In interviews, the band all appeared very positive about their latest release; as Brandon Boyd puts it, "we all moved into a magnificent, Malibu mansion, set up our gear in the living room with a view of the ocean, and began creating what would be our most free-flowing work to date." The band also released a DVD after this album, featuring a live performance at the Morning View Mansion, footage of the band in the mansion, a photo gallery and the cut and un-cut versions of Wish You Were Here. However, it turns out that the comet is actually Cardinal Syn, a robotic agent of harsh Catholic dogma. The house was located on a street named "Morning View"; hence the name.

An AIDS-like plague has crippled the masses, who await the meteor's arrival and their subsequent death. The sound of the record is generally seen as a reflection of that environment, as opposed to the basement where S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was recorded. Meanwhile, a comet hurdling towards planet earth is inciting the populace to revolt, and anarchy has set in all over the globe. The album was a much more mellow record as opposed to the hard sounds on Make Yourself and S.C.I.E.N.C.E., thus coming into criticism from veteran fans but still retained such rockers as Have You Ever and Under My Umbrella. The story involves Oderus and his alien sister Slymenstra being forcibly mated with the aid of rogue space aliens. This album was recorded in a mansion on the Pacific coast of California. While This Toilet Earth was highly eclectic in instrumentation, RagNaRok (1995) contains the most varied vocal stylings, as the majority of the band lends their lungs to the tracklist. RagNaRok is essentially a heavy metal album and it is spiced with a story about the end of the world. Morning View was released on October 23, 2001.

"Jack the World" was also featured in the Beavis and Butthead video game for the Sega Genesis. It was replaced with footage from the band in the Morning View Mansion where the album was recorded. Skulhedface was the movie released to document this album. Originally the video showed the band running from a group of screaming girls, forcing them to jump off a bridge into a river. It is a blend of chaotic styles that is reminiscent of Faith No More and Frank Zappa. "Wish You Were Here", the first single from the group's next album, Morning View was released on August 21, 2001, and reached number two in the US. At the end of September the video for "Wish You Were Here" was released, after being re-cut in order to make it more "viewable" in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th. As for the music, it is varied and ranges from poppy ("Jack the World") to gruesome ("Sonderkommando") to goofy ("Pepperoni") and to the unmentionable ("B.D.F."). The "Drive" video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category Best Group Video, but the award went to *NSYNC.

must regain their Jizz and catch the maggot in time. The band also played in Australia and Japan, before touring with Hoobastank in the United States. Skulhedface disguises herself as an evil executive for the Glomco corporation, and uses propaganda to turn Gwar into sickeningly cuddly cartoon characters. Meanwhile, Gwar discovers that the World Maggot is their only opportunity to escape Earth, but Skullhedface stands in their way. Oderus & Co. 2001 was a busy year for the band, when Incubus went on the road with Hundred Reasons in the summer and played the Area One Festival before their Make Yourself went Double Platinum, selling two million copies. Her midget slave Flopsy and she then create a creature made up of the melded parts of evil historical figures (such as Hitler) called the Flesh Column. Fungus Amongus was re-released on November 7th, 2000, as a response to demand for the independently released album. In retaliation, she travels to Antarctica, encounters Gwar while they are hibernating, and steals their Jizmoglobin, or life force. During the year 2000, Incubus toured with Queen Adreena, 311, Deftones and Taproot and played Ozzfest again.

Storywise, the enemy is now Skulhedface, an alien queen who was deformed in a Synnite Warrior raid on her planet centuries before. Later the DVD, When Incubus Attacks Volume 2 was also released, featuring live footage, music videos and various backstage footage. The music and artwork is almost cartoonish when compared to the previous albums, and the instrumentation has expanded to include horns (in the opener, "Saddam a Go-Go") that reinforce the goofiness. In the first week of its release (August 22nd, 2000), When Incubus Attacks Volume 1 sold almost 40,000 copies, and reached number 41 on the US Billboard Album Charts. In 1994, Gwar released what was to be one of their oddest and most bittersweet albums. It was the first album to be censored, due to their gain in popularity as a result of MTV exposure. After playing the Ozzfest tour again, a six song EP, When Incubus Attacks Volume 1, was released. The single "S.F.W." (a staple of their live shows) was supposedly released on this album as a bonus track, but this has been discounted by the band. The next single, "Drive," did one better, reaching #1 and giving the band a new, mainstream following.

This album was followed by The Road Behind, an EP that contained that single and a riveting live version of "Have You Seen Me?" (which contained a notorious Ween sample at the end). It reached #2 in the Billboard Charts. A video, Phallus in Wonderland, was released as a supplement to the album's storyline. "Stellar" was the second single released from Make Yourself, and the video was played on MTV and TRL. Musically, it is a mix of rock and roll and blistering sludge metal, and it is even harsher-sounding than the previous album. The single reached #3 in the Billboard Music Charts. Other songs of interest include "Have You Seen Me?", "Poor Ole Tom", and "The Road Behind". "Pardon Me" was released as a single and -- as MTV began playing the video -- the band began to gain a mainstream following.

Gwar marches out to battle, and you can take the story from there. Immediately they went out on tour again, this time with Primus. Meanwhile, the Morality Squad has enlisted the help of Father Bohab (a Catholic priest) to crucify Gwar in the media. The album was a much more mainstream rock album than the experimental S.C.I.E.N.C.E.. The story then shifts to Gwar headquarters in Antarctica, where Oderus's slaves are ordered to shoot up a dinosaur egg with crack. The result is the mighty Gor Gor, a Tyrannosaurus Rex that wreaks havoc on America. After touring with Black Sabbath, Incubus began recording Make Yourself, which was released on October 26, 1999. The opening song, "Ham on the Bone" (which has a nod to grindcore) explains this robbery. A live recording of the song "New Skin" appeared on the Family Values compilation CD.

Brockie was revolted by this attack on his rights and so he created a concept album revolving around an elite "Morality Squad" that attacked the members of Gwar and stole Oderus's penile attachment (aka Cuttlefish of Ctulu, a phallic hellbeast that normally dangles from his crotch). The band then continued to tour, playing in Europe and America with the likes of Sugar Ray, Hoobastank, 311, Far, One Minute Silence, Cold, Limp Bizkit, (hed) p.e., Snot, Soulfly, System of a Down, Korn, Papa Roach, as well as playing the Warped Tour for three dates, the Ozzfest and the Family Values tour in the summer and fall of 1998. The controversy revolved around Brockie's rubbery penis adornment. In February 1998, DJ Lyfe was asked to leave because of trouble within the band and Chris Kilmore was brought in to fill the vacant position. Their second major-label recording in 1992 was inspired by Dave Brockie's fight with police officers while touring. "A Certain Shade Of Green" was the only single from the album and didn't make a dent in the singles charts. This album is viewed by many as their ultimate masterpiece. S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was released on September 9, 1997.

The rest of the album is centered around twisted jokes about insane medical practices/sexual perversion. Incubus collaborated with DJ Greyboy to produce the song "Familiar" for the Spawn movie soundtrack in 1997. Other references include history ("Vlad the Impaler") and mythology ("Horrors of Yig"). Many songs from Fungus Amongus were rereleased on Enjoy Incubus, but were touched up. As well, "Black and Huge" is basically a love song by a sterotypically well-endowed African-American expressing his lustful intentions towards a white girl in the line "You know I'm just a limp Mega-Prick, I'm looking for a stupid white chick". Enjoy Incubus was released on Immortal Records on January 7 of that year, exactly two years after the band's second demo. Examples include "Slaughterama" (which involves Gwar killing hippies and skinheads) and the opening track, "Salaminizer", which was inspired by/based off a song by the breakthrough rap group NWA. Between that release and their 1997 major label debut EP, Enjoy Incubus, the band acquired DJ Lyfe, who introduced hip-hop sounds to the band's already diverse mix of music.

The songs are more socially relevant in this album as well. On November 1, 1995, Fungus Amongus was released on the band's own label,Stopuglynailfungus Music on Chillum. in the song, "Maggots"). On January 7, 1995, the demo tape Incubus was released, featuring songs that would later appear on their first album, Fungus Amongus, and their EP, Enjoy Incubus. Gwar began to experiment with samples to some degree (e.g. One song of interest from this demo was "Bathe In My Snot", which harnessed much of the band's newly created energy. The production is very refined compared to the independent first attempt. For the next few years, Incubus continued to play live and write music, which cumulated in their first demo recording released in 1994, titled Closet Cultivation.

As the title implies, it is a concept album about the Scumdogs' reign of terror on planet Earth. In 1991, after adopting the name Incubus, the band began playing at parties in their neighborhood. Gwar's first album on Metal Blade Records was released in 1990. At this time they began writing their own music. (In another reference, the liner art does a stab at Picasso's Guernica, which is renamed Gwarnica.). They asked their friend, Brandon Boyd to join and he became the vocalist. Jacques-Yves Cousteau makes a bizarre cameo as well, in a song that could possibly be influenced by Dadaism. They mostly played Metallica and Megadeth covers and were able to get a few gigs at friend's parties.

The famous "Gwar Theme" is a memorable car-eating anthem. Jose Pasillas, Alex Katunich, Mike Einziger began jamming together while at Calabasas High School in 1990. Hunter Jackson makes his first appearance in "Techno's Song" and "I'm in Love (With a Dead Dog)" showcased a tender episode in canine-alien relations. "Incubus" is latin for "nightmare." Mike says that the name was chosen because it sounded silly; Brandon holds that it was chosen because they were teenagers and the definition had the word "sex" in it. Gwar's angle is that of a morbid punk band (a la The Mentors), with songs deriding the USA (such as "Americanized" and "Ollie North") as well as those of general grotesqueness ("Slutman City", "Bone Meal"). After a few failed choices, Mike looked in a thesaurus and chose "Incubus" almost at random. In 1988, their first album, Hell-O (Shimmy Records) was released. The band needed to think of a name hours before their first show.

Gwar fans are known as Bohabs. Dirk Lance) (bass). Gwar was/is primarily a band of former art students, and this is reflected in the obscure references made in some of their songs. Former members of the band include DJ Lyfe (turntables) and Alex Katunich (a.k.a. Band members and associates often have cookouts at their house, dubbed "Gwar-BQ's." The video for "Saddam a Go-Go" from This Toilet Earth appeared in the hit movie Empire Records. Incubus is an eclectic rock band, that consists of five men from Calabasas, California: Brandon Boyd (vocals and percussion), Mike Einziger (guitar), Ben Kenney (bass), Jose Pasillas (drums) and DJ Kilmore (turntables). Gwar were banned from performing in their home city due to their raucous stage performances; since then they have appeared under the pseudonym Rawg. There is also a demon called an incubus..

Simpson to your garden-variety redneck. Another hallmark of Gwar's live show is their mock executions of media icons, ranging from O.J. Their costumes are generally made of foam latex, and they further the gimmick in concerts by dousing blood and gore on their audiences. Entitled Scumdogs of the Universe, it featured a plot involving intergalactic barbarians. Jackson and Brockie combined these ideas, and since then the gimmick used by Brockie's band (re-dubbed Gwar) has been dressing up as alien warriors.

Jackson was working on a movie at the time the two met. The band was the result of the linkup between Hunter Jackson and Dave Brockie, the singer for a punk band called Death Piggy. Gwar are probably best known for their elaborate fantasy and horror inspired stage shows which have sometimes run afoul of obscenity statutes. Gwar is a novelty rock/heavy metal/punk band that was formed in 1985-1986 in Richmond, Virginia.

Armstrong. Kepone. Death Piggy. X-Cops.

DBX. Nippleus Erectus (old drummer character-???). Techno-Destructo (GWAR Enemy - Hunter Jackson). Musel (keyboards - Dave Musel).

Sexecutioner (vocals - Chuck Varga). Martini (manager - Don Drakulich). Sleazy P. Slymenstra Hymen (GWAR Woman, vocalist - Danyelle Stampe).