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GWAR: The Complete History From Jerry Springer to "Scumdogs XXX"

Alternative Press created a complete history video in 2020. The video description reads as follows:

"The history of GWAR is actually far more normal than you could imagine In this oral “hysterie,” America’s finest scumdogs reveal a truth that goes far beyond the blood, guts and latex that has been their rock in trade. For over three decades, the members of GWAR have been pushing risque humor, audience endurance and decibel meters. Their schtick of being “Antarctica’s No. 1 band” never gets old. That’s because they never focused solely on just one element. Between tasteless jokes and tasty riffs, the Richmond, Virginia, performance art collective-cum-metal force mean a lot of things to a lot of different fans. Which is precisely what this APTV oral history video is about. It hasn’t always been a smooth ride for GWAR. The band were delivered some serious blows from the death of band founder Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus) in 2014 and Cory Smoot (Flattus Maximus) in 2011. But with the return of former member Michael Bishop (as singer Blothar, formerly bassist Beefcake The Mighty), GWAR continue to rock among us. Bishop, Mike Derks (Balsac The Jaws Of Death), Brad Roberts (Jizmak Da Gusha) and Bob Gorman (Bonesnapper) got on a Zoom call with APTV director Bobby Makar to discuss everything from concerned parents (theirs, not their fans’) to how they want to be remembered."

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when I log on just know I'm doing this

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Somebody in the gwar tag was wondering if gwar killed Elon on stage yet, and good news, they did (video by u/stellamnelson on reddit)

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i love GWART so so bad. y'all are so talented i swear.

so like.. this balsac guy 🤤

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Athens Banner Herald issue - 11/17/1992

Media used with permission by Macey Cox. Included below is her original facebook post.

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It's so hard to try to get past the boring stuff whenever I start a new structured blog like this. Like I love just getting through and making the content, but I also want to make sure the blog is well-organized, especially for something I plan on posting onto very frequently. I currently have the queue set up to post once a day, and I'm trying to every day come on and add a few posts to it, just to make sure more stuff comes out as time goes on.

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Posts By Year

(If there's ever a post that doesn't have a year tag, it's because I have no info on the year, so some posts may be missing.)

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Collaborators

An archive can be done alone, but the largest archive I know, the Internet Archive, is so large because it’s a big collaboration. That being said, a lot of the content on this blog couldn’t have been found and added without the help of others. This is, essentially, a giant thank-you post for anyone that’s helped me find archive entries. Y’all are seriously so cool for this.

This is a list of names that have placed suggestions or otherwise supplied media or links to be used for this archive. Many thanks to all of you!

If at any time you’d like your name or your content removed from my blog, please message me.

Reddit Users:

clout4ever (for sharing spookykids.net)

DeathMetalDumpster (for sharing this link and this link)

HertzWhenEyeP (for giving me general archival tips)

Latter_Use3726 (for supplying this massive youtube playlist)

Facebook Users:

Macey Cox

I don’t personally plan on adding what each person supplied with, however doing so now helps me keep tabs on certain sources so I can revisit them later whenever needed, so it felt helpful to include them in the collaborator post.

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ReGWARded - GWAR Interview and Short Documentary 10/13/2006

(I do not condone the use of any slurs or derogatory terms. If you come across this post and you don't know about this blog, let it be known this blog is archival use only.)

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Hello gwar nation

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Large Media Post from Spookykids.net

Keeping all of these images together so they all are given the credit they are so well deserved. None of these images are mine, they can be found at this link. To whoever took these photos, to the site creator, your site is really cool, and I wanted to thank you, not only for participating in the community GWARchive, but for continuing to keep it up all these years. Your site, and your photos, are really cool. If for any reason you want any or all of these photos removed, please message me, it's not a problem at all.

(This post has to be separated in two due to Tumblr's media limit. Click HERE for part 2!!)

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Spookykids.net Photos Part 2

Once more, big thanks to Spookykids.net creator for these images, they're so sick!!

Click HERE for part 1!

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Various photos of Oderus Urungus, scraped from Oderus.com via the Wayback Machine.

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Oderus.com Excerpt, 02/01/2007

A journey through the Wayback Machine to Oderus.com, 02/01/2007, brought me this excerpt from the main page.

Just to clear up some shit, let me eat it....O.K , only a few pounds, and from that midget from the Geico commercial. It may please you to know I have liberated the "cavemen" from that commercial, and brought them to Antarctica, where they are even as I speak are living a life of opulence and ease. I mean, they have suffered enough. Geez, I'm watching too much human television. ANYWAY we are out on our massive "Beyond Hell" tour, ravaging all that stand before us in our savage, yet brutal, caress. City after city burn with the very flames of Hell, and yet you continue to throw yourselves upon our blazing altar of syphllis. "Beyond Hell", our heaviest album ever, is now infecting the world, and GWAR answers the call with our most ground-devouring tour yet! North America shall reel beneath our boundless wrath! And so far no News Years Eve Show, we finally get the night off...YOU can entertain US for a change. Then GWAR shall return to Europe in the early part of 2007, returning again in the summer for festivals of barbaric proportion, to continue the merciless re-conquest of the old country that we began last year! Asia beckons like a far-away whore, Australia, South America.... "Beyond Hell" is a world-wide release, and that means there are no limits to the swath of destruction GWAR shall reap across your world "o" filth!

More specifically, no, I don't know when and if we are going to do another video from "Beyond Hell". We'd like to, especially the song "Eighth Lock", which we wanted to do from the start, and make it super-sick...but we listened to the label, who was bugging the shit out of us to do a cover of some sort. They felt that perhaps a cover could break GWAR into mainstream radio and sell a buttload of records. Ridiculous! So we started trying to figure out what cover...first we thought "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M. would be good...then I had the idea of doing "If You Want Blood" from AC/DC...in the video we would resurrect Bon Scott from the dead and replace that lame fucker Brian Johnson and his stupid hat. You know what the label said? "Nobody knows who Bon Scott is." ????????? So anyway when I was really fucked up they snuck up on me and somehow shot the "Schools Out" video while I wasn't looking! Not that I'm complaining that much. It's getting played on Headbangers quite a bit, and even had some decent radio success, and we are selling more albums, but it just doesn't represent the true heavy hatred of the real body of work that is "Beyong Hell"....but you guys know that already! So get out there and get all of your lameass friends who secretly love GWAR as much as you do to actually buy this record and blast the fuck out of it! I command it!

Finally, last night in Albany, N.Y., we had what I call "The Grandmother Show". Three generations of GWAR fans from one family. Rico, his Mom, and HER MOM all showed up in their GWAR best to enjoy the festivities. I knew this would happen one day but not so soon! I guess now we have the "Great-Grandmother Show" to look forward to...I'm out, gotta hit the stage and take some heads with me. It's fun being me. Even when some douch in Norfolk pegged me with a golf ball! Hey numbnuts, I'm Oderus! Indestructible yet erudite! And I'm on a mother-fucking roll!

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The Epic Tale of GWAR

Taken from a trip through the Wayback Machine to GWAR.net, a capture from October 11, 2012. Everything is copy-pasted word-for-word from the site. I take zero credit for anything in this post.

Eons ago, there existed an elite group of chaos warriors who ravaged the galaxy with a boundless hatred of all things alive. They were called the Scumdogs of the Universe, and they grew in might and fury, the greatest weapon in the arsenal of their cosmic Master.

But they became too powerful, and too defiant, and for their cosmic crimes were banished to the most insignificant planet in the universe…the seething mudball known as Earth.

Millions of years passed, and they slumbered, until the pollution of your world de-thawed these creatures from their ageless coma…and now they stride the Earth, living gods, dedicated to one goal, the destruction of the human race, and the eradication of existence itself! Wait- that’s two goals!

Hark to the hideous majesty of your MASTERS, rulers of Earth, the MIGHTY GWAR!!!

It is I, ODERUS URUNGUS, lead singer of the sickest band in metal history, Earth’s only openly extra-terrestrial rock band, and the destined destroyers of not only the human race but also reality itself. GWAR! Hulking, heaving, dribbling WAR-GOD’s who like nothing better than putting hordes of our sniveling fans to the sword while playing the marauding mutant metal that we are famous for! Star’s of stage and screen, carvers of stem and spleen! GWAR LIVES!

Vocals: ODERUS URUNGUS – GWAR’s supposed “leader”, the size of my ego is matched only by the heft of my broadsword, and the girth of my Cuttlefish!!

Guitar: BALSAC THE JAWS OF DEATH — The most cultured of the group, this bear-trap jawed monstrosity is rumored to have a scrotum for a face.

Guitar : FLATTUS MAXIMUS — This gassy disaster slaughters thousands with his shredding solo’s and reeking flatulence. Eats only vegatarians.

Drums : JIZMAK DA GUSHA—Dog-headed Jizmak is the most obnoxious GWAR-rior and delights in the pounding of all things, including himself! Hails from The Wide World of Sports.

Bass: BEEFCAKE THE MIGHTY— Immensely angry and immeasurably violent, Beefcake is, quite simply, a sexual god.

And of course who can forget THE SLAVES OF GWAR, humans kidnapped and mutated by GWAR to serve their endless and often confusing desires!

A BRIEF AND SLIGHTLY MORE DETAILED HISTORY OF GWAR

At the beginning of all things, there was the Master, a hideous planet-sized creature floating in an endless void. And it was a boring void, so he created everything ever just to amuse himself. And as life spread through this void, The Master found the best way to amuse himself with his new toys was to make them fight each other, so he created WAR. And he saw that it was good, so he created The Scumdogs of the Universe as the ultimate executors of his favorite activity.

For thousands of eons my Scumdog brothers and myself heaped endless atrocities upon a deserving galaxy. Planet after planet, race after race blazed to ruin on our flaming altar of sacrifice. Our enemies were many, from the peaceful folk of Flab-Quarve 7, to the sinister legions of robotic holy-warrior Cardinal Sin, and the wars we waged were never-ending. Led by The Master’s most loyal servant, the cyborg Techno-Destructo, the Scumdogs had become the most powerful force in the universe. So great that we dared to rise up in rebellion against our creator and fulfill our dream of destroying everything. The ensuing battle was beyond epic, as The Master deployed his newest and most powerful weapon, The Death Pod, and turned it against us. Ultimately we were defeated, and Techno loaded GWAR into the dreaded Butt-Cannon and shot us to the most insignificant, isolated mud ball of a planet in the entire ga laxy—the planet Earth!

There we busily set about fucking everything up on our new home. The first thing we did was have sex with the local animal population, thereby creating the human race. These loathsome creatures spread across the surface of the planet faster than the herpes on Lohan’s twat! We used to delight in the destruction of their civilizations—like the time Beefcake sank Atlantis by using it as his personal vomitorium, or Flattus de-foliated the Fertile Crescent with his chronic flatulence! But soon all of this barbarous activity had attracted the attention of The Master, who sent Techno-Destructo to check on his wayward creation. Enraged that we had created humans (the most annoying of races), The Master froze us in a great tomb in the barren waste of Antarctica, to sleep in its icy vastness until such times as he called us back into his horrific service!

Millions of years passed, but GWAR still imposed their will on humanity…reaching into their dreams and inspiring them to heap atrocities upon each other and pollute and ravage their own world with disease and war. And it was the pollution of heavy metal that ultimately led to GWAR’s release! Because of the brief dominance of hair-metal bands in the late 80’s, and their overuse of hair spray, a huge hole was burned into the ozone above the GWAR temple, and the member’s of GWAR began to de-thaw. At that precise moment, music mogul and notorious underworld boss Sleazy P. Martini was on the run from the I.R.S., shot down over Antarctica and crashing into the frozen tundra in front of the GWAR Temple! Stumbling inside, he discovered the ageless warriors stirring within their tombs. Seizing the moment and in short order Sleazy quickly got us addicted to crack (the only thing that saved his life), brought us back to the U.S.A., gave us electric guitars, and exposed the world to the sickest band in metal history—GWAR !

Since GWAR’s re-birth on planet Earth, events have come at a tumultuous pace. GWAR has witnessed, inspired, and is indeed directly responsible for many of the most destructive events in Earth’s recent past. It is no coincidence that since the second coming of GWAR, this world’s has slipped ever closer to the apocalypse it so woefully deserves. Indeed, if GWAR had’nt had to expend so much energy battling their cosmic foes, we would have surely eaten the entire human race by now! We have withstood the onslaughts of Techno-Destructo, and his twin brother, Bozo-Destructo, after they were done fighting each other! We braved the wrath of Granbo and the Morality Squad, who attempted to confiscate my penis. We fought the hideous SkulHedFace in an attempt to summon the World-Maggot and ride it back to outer space. Unfortunately it left without us, though to this day we hope there are two World Maggots! We even repelled an assault by the Master himself who attempted to return us to his cosmic servitude. Most recently we saw GWAR storming the gates of hell itself and claiming that realm as our own! And all the while we continued to ravage the planet, conducting our great “death-rallies”, luring the humans in with the music of metal, and then slaughtering them en masse. CD’s, DVD’s, and burnt-out cities continue to be produced in infinite procession, tracking the continuing progression of one of the most legendary bands in rock and roll history—the mighty GWAR!

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GWAR Unmasked! The Dave Brockie Lost Interview with Robert A. Mitchell

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