Gwar

Brutal Assault - 2010

Text: Tobias Nilsson Photo: Lunah Lauridsen

”We are your lords, we are your masters! Let’s fucking party!”
- Dave 'Oderus Urungus' Brockie (vocals)


Nothing more needs to be said really, as it was the mighty GWAR who took the stage as the last band of the night for us on the first day of Brutal Assault. And what a way to end things!
The bloodbath began even before the music did as Oderus Urungus decapitated some poor fellow, and sprayed the nearby audience with his insides.
So what more went on?
Well, as I always say, when it comes to GWAR, the music is the least important factor of the show, where celebrity guest-appearances and mutilations play a much more important and entertaining role.
So, who came on?
The first lamb to the slaughter was none other than Adolf Hitler, after which another famous man from history came out; Jesus Christ. He bore a warning, asking us not to listen to the band and become more evil, after which his dress came up and he sprayed the people in front of him with holy semen.
Shortly after this a hillbilly cop instigated fighting amongst the crowd, but this was not allowed by Oderus Urungus, who let his long-sword Lick cut the entire front off of the lawman and then shove a pole up his rear end. More blood was sprayed, and mixed screams of ecstasy and surprise rose from the assembled crowd (I can’t believe we still find people who does not know what a GWAR show is all about??).

Anyway, up on the stage the band was returning to the religious characters, as Oderus Urungus shouted out loud; ”Satan is a fucking homo buttboy!” as he was tearing the arms of a junkie-demon.
After this it was time for a short speech from someone close to the band; a wheel-chair bound boy who was introduced as GWAR’s fanclub chief rolled out on stage, and well, guess what happened to him… Yes, more blood-bombardment followed…
Here something out of the bands plans happened as someone in the crowd threw a flag up on stage. Unfortunately (?) it landed on the large frontman’s head, but for once no one had to die; instead Oderus Urungus just said thanks for his new hat!

But was this really the end of death and destruction for the mighty GWAR?
No, of course it wasn’t! As soon as we were beginning to dry up (yeah, right!), the Nazi-pope took the stage only to meet a predictable, yet spectacular end. And after this there was really only one thing to do wasn’t there?
Yup, bassist Beefcake the Mighty took over vocal duties as Oderus Urungus busied himself ass-raping Satan, a feat concluded by Oderus Urungus generously spraying the entire audience with the slime of his loins.

Now, if all this doesn’t want you to get up out of the couch and catch the next GWAR show near you, I sure as hell don’t know what will, but I will say this; if you do, don’t wear clothes you care about!
A girl next to me in the audience, clearly oblivious to what was about to happen, was proudly telling everyone who wanted to hear how happy she was with this new outfit she had just bought and tried on. Did she regret it? What do you think…

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