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MAJOR RAGING AT BATTLE OF THE BANDS

Nerd reference a-hoy!

So as you may know it’s actually Metal March, in which record companies and others join up to promote themselves through free samplers, etc. Seems fairly innocuous and inoffensive, right? WRONG. Seems ThrashMag.com is running a knock-out battle of the bands with 64 artists from Metal Blade, Sumerian Records, Nuclear Blast and Victory Records(!?). Little do they know that they are casually mining a fairly large ore of rage buried deep within me. Let me just list a few of the travesties that are occuring:

  • I don’t want to live in a world where As I Lay Dying are beating Behemoth
  • I don’t want to live in a world where Job For A Cowboy are beating The Ocean
  • I don’t want to live in a world where Asking Alexandria are beating Fellsilent
  • I don’t want to live in a world where Shai Halud are beating Gwar
  • I also don’t want to live in a world where A Day To Remember, Dr. Acula, Emmure and Aiden could even be considered kings of Metal March.

Yes, I know it’s a popularity contest but at least go over there and do the right thing, you have until the 18th before the first round ends, in return I’ll keep quiet about the whole Goatwhore and Between The Buried And Me thing.

 

-DL

I spent this weekend like I spend every weekend, cold and alone in my basement mashing the F5 button on twitter in the hopes that there will be another Deconstruction update big enough that I can kid myself it’s worth posting. Lo and behold the basement angels heard my prayers and provided me with this video from SickDrummer that seems to have laid pretty low despite it being put up a month ago:

Also, yesterday Devin tweeted another thanks, this time to a ‘Paul M’ [which Devin confirmed as Paul Masvidal on his official forums - Ed.] This brings the list of guests so far up to: Ihsahn (Ihsahn/Emperor), Dirk Verbeuren (Aborted/Soilwork), Joe Duplantier (Gojira), Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth), Floor Jansen (After Forever/ReVamp), Tommy Rogers (Between The Buried And Me), Oderus Urungus (GWAR), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah), and Paul Masvidal (Cynic).

Can you tell I’m just a little bit excited about this album? Now all we need is for Alkahest to tweet about Robin Staps, Misha Mansoor, Jus Oborn, Keith Buckley, J.R Hayes, John Dyer Baizley etc etc etc and we’re set for the best album ever.

-DL

Looks so much like an Atheist cover, you don’t even know.  This is some beautiful artwork as well. Anyway, it’s done by Eliran Kantor who has done some stuff for Testament, Sigh, GWAR, and some other guys. Atheist’s Jupiter comes out November 9th on Seasons of Mist.

Only Gwar could come up with something like this. This actually boggled my mind.

Via SMN News:

In an announcement given to a “bunch of penguins”, from the bowels of their Antarctic fortress, the world’s sickest band, the mighty GWAR, has announced the continuation of their 25th Anniversary with a public event of colossal proportion – the Crack-a-Thon.

“We are trying to raise money for the kids…not just muscular dystrophy, but retards as well, all kinds of fucked-up freaks,” said Oderus.

The event will kickoff on April 10th, 2010 at the notorious MF Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. The weeklong debauchery will be broadcast live on the World Wide Web, and anybody with internet access will be able to view the gala event free of charge. Viewers will be able to pledge funds via a website to be announced later – check http://www.MFgallery.net for details. Rumors that any money raised will actually be used to pay off Oderus’ crack debt were immediately confirmed.

Sleazy P. Martini, manager of GWAR and reputed underworld overlord said, “Oderus is completely wasted and really has no concept of money, instead he prizes things like little pieces of rope or dead dogs and dead dogs don’t pay the bills!”

“The boys and me wanna give something back to the community, you know, something besides AIDS…”

After the kickoff party on April 10th, there will be a week of intense preparation, as the MF Gallery is transformed into Slave Pit TV central, and Oderus is set loose on the streets of NYC. His atrocities will be carefully documented and broadcast during the Crack-a-Thon, which will commence on Friday April 16th, 2010. Live web cams will broadcast all the action from the gallery.

The Crack-a-Thon will begin on Friday, April 16th and will go as long as it takes to pay off Oderus‘ bill, or he gets bored and leaves, whatever comes first. The public is invited to be our studio audience, and should contact MF Gallery for information on how to reserve a seat in the Crack-a-Thon audience.

Oderus will be joined by band mate Balsac, the Jaws of Death, who will serve as band leader and comic foil.

“I really don’t know why I demean myself by associating with him,” said the metal-faced horror, “but it will be fun watching him fail.”

The rumored list of guests scheduled to appear include Tiger Woods, God, and Carmen Electra’s torso, though this was subject to change. Confirmed is the shadowy underground performance troupe, the F-Minus Art Players, led by the sewer-dwelling playwright and art-fag Anton Reemcobb, who are slated to perform some of their shockingly neo-dada-esque bullshit theatre. Also confirmed are cybernetic musical guests DETHRACE, among others.

I just don’t even…

- JR

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