Gwar

War Party was supported in fall 2004 by the Mock the Vote tour. For the complete list of releases, please see Iron Maiden discography. 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". do not meddle with things you do not understand!", followed by a loud belch. 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". Reverse this track, and you will hear drummer McBrain clearly saying "'What Ho,' said the thing with three bonces.. War Party continues the decidedly more metal focus reintroduced in Violence Has Arrived. The next year, on the Piece Of Mind album, an antagonistic backward message was placed at the start of the track Still Life.

Their new album is called War Party and was released October 26, 2004. At the time, there was also a lot of controversy about Satanic messages in other bands music, normally discovered by playing the offending track backwards. After Violence Has Arrived, Gwar switched labels from Metal Blade to DRT Entertainment. The bill for the repair came to $666, a figure which Birch refused to pay, instead opting for a higher amount. 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". On the tour to support the album, producer Martin Birch was involved in a car accident with a group of church-goers. 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. It was then decided that it would be better to smash the records up.

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. However, this resulted in pandemonium, with the activists running away because they were afraid of the fumes. "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". A group of Christian activists decided that the bands records (along with those of Ozzy Osbourne) should be destroyed - resulting in a mountain of vinyl records being burnt in a huge fire. The band once again offers the funny ("Fishfuck") the gross ("Babyraper"), and the weird ("Penile Drip", in which Oderus does his best Brak impression). Whilst the members of Iron Maiden tried to deflect this criticism by insisting that the lyrics were based on a dream by Steve Harris, the media sometimes thought otherwise. 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 title track had many people, particularly in the US, accusing the band of being Satanic.

This a whimsical album full of punkish potboilers, taking a note from Primus in its surrealistic goofiness. The release of the 1982 album, The Number Of The Beast, brought its fair share of controversy. Gwar returned in 1999 with We Kill Everything, which hearkens back to their hardcore roots. The longevity of Iron Maiden has ensured a high number of accounts of the band making the headlines. A few more jokes ("Scallop Boat", "Gonna Kill U", "I Suck on My Thumb"), round out the album. No new album is expected before the spring 2006, the band only entering the studio in November 2005, according to Nicko McBrain, the band's drummer. "In Her Fear" is Oderus's swan song, and Beefcake the Mighty gives a memorable ballad in "Hate Love Songs". Documenting the 2003-2004 'Dance of Death' Tour, the release is in its final stages, as the mastering was finished at the end of February 2005 by Kevin Shirley.

which is worthy of mention. Another DVD is expected to hit the shelves in 2005. 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. Participation in the last Ozzfest ever in the USA during the summer of 2005 is also in the works. 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". The band planned to hit the road to support the 2004 DVD entitled The Early Years, in which the band celebrates the music mainly from its 1980-1983 period. There are likely more styles experimented with here than on any other album. The band re-released the Number of the Beast single, which went straight to number 3 in the UK charts.

It can be best described as Gwar's bid for musical expansion. In 2005, Iron Maiden announced a tour to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release of their first album and the 30th anniversary of their formation. Bungle. In fact, many fans say that Dance of Death surpassed Brave New World in creativity, and remains their best album since 1988's landmark Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. The band on Carnival of Chaos (1997) seems to be influenced even more by Faith No More and Mr. The album went platinum in several countries and left no doubts that the band was still a heavy metal sensation. Finally, the instrumental "Surf of Syn" shows the technical side of the band in full force. The band continued with their progressive trend in the album Dance of Death released in 2003.

In the closer, for once, Gwar actually shows a serious side in detailing their problems with protestors (the ballad, "None But the Brave"). It was a return to glory for the band, as many of their older fans now had bands themselves, and their influence could be heard through several forms of rock music in the late 1990s and early 2000s. in "Think You Oughta Know This", and there is an energetic duet between Oderus and Slymenstra in "Fire in the Loins". The world tour for the album ended in January 2001 with a show at the famous Rock in Rio festival. In other news, Drakulich does a mock-rapping bit as Sleazy P. The band gained a new fan base when they began exploring the genre of progressive metal. Brave New World, by almost all accounts, was the best Iron Maiden album in over a decade. The highlights of the album include "Dirty, Filthy" (a rousing comedy anthem), the title track, and "Meat Sandwich". The songs were longer and the lyrics spoke about both dark themes and social criticism.

As it could be supposed, the concept is about the ridicule of Christianity (especially in the song, "Martyr Dumb"). In 2000, a new period, known commonly as "the progressive years", began for the band when they released the album Brave New World. But Syn is drawn to Slymenstra's alien baby, for a reason that is left for the listener to uncover.. This led to a reunion tour that gathered huge audiences all over the world. Syn is representing the Warrior Pope, who is demanding that all bow down to him and obey his insane whims. Even more exciting was the announcement that Smith's replacement, Janick Gers, would remain in the band; Iron Maiden now had three guitarists. However, it turns out that the comet is actually Cardinal Syn, a robotic agent of harsh Catholic dogma. Months later, the band shocked the world when they announced that both Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith were rejoining the band, which meant the classic 1980s lineup was back in place.

An AIDS-like plague has crippled the masses, who await the meteor's arrival and their subsequent death. In early 1999, Bayley was let go from the band. Meanwhile, a comet hurdling towards planet earth is inciting the populace to revolt, and anarchy has set in all over the globe. The album contained some jewels, especially "The Educated Fool" and the reflective ballad "Como Estais Amigos.", but seemed forced. Oddly enough, one of the very low points of the album was the hit single "The Angel and the Gambler," which was all many people heard of the album before deciding not to buy it! Virtual XI was not a high selling album, failing to reach the worldwide million mark in sales for the first time. The story involves Oderus and his alien sister Slymenstra being forcibly mated with the aid of rogue space aliens. The band spent most of 1996 on the road before returning to the studio for the happier Virtual XI (1998). 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. It should be noted that chief songwriter Steve Harris was going through serious personal problems, and many of the songs were therefore melancholic and slow. The 11-minute epic "Sign of the Cross", opening the album, stands head-to-head with any of the band's classic extended pieces.

"Jack the World" was also featured in the Beavis and Butthead video game for the Sega Genesis. Now considered as a masterpiece by many, the album featured dark, brooding songs and seemed introspective. Skulhedface was the movie released to document this album. The album divided the fans at first, for it was very different from the traditional Maiden sound. It is a blend of chaotic styles that is reminiscent of Faith No More and Frank Zappa. After a three year hiatus, Maiden returned in 1995 with the hour-long album The X Factor. 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 band auditioned hundreds of vocalists and finally chose young gun Blaze Bayley in 1994, formerly of Wolfsbane. Bayley proved to be a worthy vocalist, but he did not have the range Dickinson possessed.

must regain their Jizz and catch the maggot in time. However, Bruce agreed to stay with the band until the end of the year, resulting in a pair of live albums released in the fall. 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. In 1993, Iron Maiden suffered a huge loss when Bruce Dickinson left the band to further pursue his solo career. 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. Still, Dickinson continued with his raspier vocals and much of the lyrics on Fear of the Dark were a downgrade from their previous successes. In retaliation, she travels to Antarctica, encounters Gwar while they are hibernating, and steals their Jizmoglobin, or life force. Even though metal was out of date in 1992 and grunge was ruling the airwaves, Maiden continued to sell out arenas in the US and throughout the world.

Storywise, the enemy is now Skulhedface, an alien queen who was deformed in a Synnite Warrior raid on her planet centuries before. Released in 1992 it had several songs that were popular among fans, like the title-track and Afraid to Shoot Strangers. 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. He continued to tour in 1991 before returning to the studio with Iron Maiden for the smash hit album Fear of the Dark. 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. Before the release of No Prayer for the Dying, Bruce Dickinson officially launched a solo career to coincide with Iron Maiden (Gers was his guitarist). 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. However, the album was a huge commercial success and spawned the number one hit single "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" from the horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 5.

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). Vocalist Bruce Dickinson also began experimenting with a raspier style of singing that was not well received by fans. A video, Phallus in Wonderland, was released as a supplement to the album's storyline. This album went back to the heavy style of the band but the lyrics were more simple and the music was not as challenging as previous efforts. Musically, it is a mix of rock and roll and blistering sludge metal, and it is even harsher-sounding than the previous album. For the first time in seven years, the band suffered a line-up change with the major loss of guitarist/vocalist Adrian Smith. Former Gillan guitarist Janick Gers was chosen to replace Smith, and in 1990 they released the poorly received album No Prayer for the Dying. Other songs of interest include "Have You Seen Me?", "Poor Ole Tom", and "The Road Behind". It was the most experimental Iron Maiden album to date, and is often regarded as the creative zenith of the band and the end of Maiden's "golden years.".

Gwar marches out to battle, and you can take the story from there. This was a concept album featuring a story about a mythical child who possessed clairvoyant powers based on the book The Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card. Meanwhile, the Morality Squad has enlisted the help of Father Bohab (a Catholic priest) to crucify Gwar in the media. In 1988 the band tried a different approach for their seventh studio album, titled Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. 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. The band's music was often referred to as "intelligent metal," and is often considered to be on an entirely different intellectual plane than most other metal acts of the 1980s. The opening song, "Ham on the Bone" (which has a nod to grindcore) explains this robbery. The band's lyrics are steeped in English literature ("The Rime of the Ancient Mariner") and history ("Alexander the Great, 356-323 BC").

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). Unlike many of their contemporaries, Iron Maiden generally avoided songs about drink, drugs, sex, or women (with the odd noteable exception). The controversy revolved around Brockie's rubbery penis adornment. All of these albums contained complex riffs, multiple time changes, and classically based themes. Their second major-label recording in 1992 was inspired by Dave Brockie's fight with police officers while touring. The band gathered huge audiences everywhere they went, especially in South America, Asia, Australia, and the United States, where they still draw huge audiences on tour. This album is viewed by many as their ultimate masterpiece. Before heading back into the studio in 1983, they replaced Clive Burr with heavy drummer Nicko McBrain and went on to release four albums which went multi-platinum world-wide: Piece of Mind (1983), Powerslave (1984), Live After Death (1985) and Somewhere in Time (1986).

The rest of the album is centered around twisted jokes about insane medical practices/sexual perversion. After the enormous success of The Number of the Beast, the band became worldwide superstars. Other references include history ("Vlad the Impaler") and mythology ("Horrors of Yig"). (The live box set "Eddie's Archive" does, though, as does the "Two Minutes To Midnight" single). 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". The band denied these rumours and no Iron Maiden studio album to date has ever carried an "explicit lyrics" stamp. 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. In actuality, it was only one song ("The Number of the Beast"), an anti-Satanic song about a bad dream, that referenced such dark theologies.

The songs are more socially relevant in this album as well. However, the tour was marred by controversy coming from religious groups that claimed Iron Maiden were a Satanic group because of their dark lyrics which supposedly spoke of Satan. in the song, "Maggots"). For the first time the band went on a world tour, visiting the United States, Japan and Australia. Gwar began to experiment with samples to some degree (e.g. This album was a world-wide success providing definitive songs such as The Number of the Beast and Run to the Hills. The production is very refined compared to the independent first attempt. Dickinson's debut with Iron Maiden was 1982's album The Number of the Beast, which is recognised as a classic of the heavy metal genre.

As the title implies, it is a concept album about the Scumdogs' reign of terror on planet Earth. Dickinson provided a much better interpretation of their songs and possessed an astonishing vocal range. Gwar's first album on Metal Blade Records was released in 1990. In 1982 the band replaced Di'Anno with former Samson vocalist Bruce Dickinson. (In another reference, the liner art does a stab at Picasso's Guernica, which is renamed Gwarnica.). Just as the band were beginning to achieve large-scale success in America, Di'Anno exhibited increasingly destructive behaviour, and his performances began to suffer. Jacques-Yves Cousteau makes a bizarre cameo as well, in a song that could possibly be influenced by Dadaism. As a group, Maiden were never into partying or drug use, being extreme perfectionists both on the road and in the studio - with the noteable exception of vocalist Paul Di'Anno.

The famous "Gwar Theme" is a memorable car-eating anthem. Killers remains one of the bands fastest and heaviest albums, and remains a favourite among hardcore fans. 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. It was at this time that the band was the star attraction of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, in which bands from England flooded the market of the United States. 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"). This new album contained the first hit songs for the band and they were introduced to audiences in the United States. In 1988, their first album, Hell-O (Shimmy Records) was released. In 1981, Maiden released their second album, titled Killers.

Gwar fans are known as Bohabs. One of Iron Maiden's trademarks is the double "twin lead" harmonising guitar stylings of Murray and Smith, a style pioneered by Wishbone Ash and Thin Lizzy, but taken to a whole new level by Iron Maiden. Gwar was/is primarily a band of former art students, and this is reflected in the obscure references made in some of their songs. His bluesy, experimental style was the complete opposite of Murray's speedy yet bluesy style. 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. Smith brought a sharp, whimsical sound to Iron Maiden. Gwar were banned from performing in their home city due to their raucous stage performances; since then they have appeared under the pseudonym Rawg. Finally, the timing was right for the arrival of Adrian Smith.

Simpson to your garden-variety redneck. After the Kiss tour, Dennis Stratton was fired from the band as a result of creative and personal differences. Another hallmark of Gwar's live show is their mock executions of media icons, ranging from O.J. The band went on to open for KISS on their 1980 Unmasked tour, as well as opening select dates for the legendary Judas Priest. Their costumes are generally made of foam latex, and they further the gimmick in concerts by dousing blood and gore on their audiences. Iron Maiden was released in 1980 to critical and commercial success. 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. Initially, the band wanted to hire Dave Murray's childhood friend Adrian Smith, but Smith was busy singing and playing guitar for his band Urchin.

Jackson was working on a movie at the time the two met. Shortly before going into the studio, Parsons was replaced by guitarist Dennis Stratton. The band was the result of the linkup between Hunter Jackson and Dave Brockie, the singer for a punk band called Death Piggy. In November 1979, the band landed a major record deal by signing to EMI, a partnership that would last for nearly 15 years. Gwar are probably best known for their elaborate fantasy and horror inspired stage shows which have sometimes run afoul of obscenity statutes. Drummer Doug Sampson was also replaced by the dynamic Clive Burr. Gwar is a novelty rock/heavy metal/punk band that was formed in 1985-1986 in Richmond, Virginia. This changed with the arrival of Tony Parsons in 1979.

Armstrong. In several of the early Iron Maiden line-ups, Dave Murray was joined by another guitarist, but for most of 1977 and all of 1978, Murray was the sole guitarist in the band. Kepone. Two of the tracks on the demo, "Prowler" and "Iron Maiden", went straight to number one on the English metal charts. Death Piggy. Featuring only four songs, the band sold all 500 copies immediately, and did not reprint the demo again until 1996 (original copies sold for thousands of dollars). X-Cops. On New Year's Eve 1978, the band recorded one of the most famous demos in rock history, Soundhouse Tapes.

DBX. The band had been playing for three years and gained a tremendously loyal following, but had never recorded any of their music. Nippleus Erectus (old drummer character-???). Iron Maiden was a sensation on the English rock circuit by 1978. Techno-Destructo (GWAR Enemy - Hunter Jackson). For years, the band had been pressured by record labels to cut their hair and sacrifice their complex metal sound in favour of a more punk image, but with Di'Anno at the forefront, the band could mix the two into a potent stew of classical themes, galloping metal rhythms, and speedy hardcore riffs. Musel (keyboards - Dave Musel). If the band had sounded punk before, they did even more so with the arrival of the short-haired, fiery Di'Anno.

Sexecutioner (vocals - Chuck Varga). By 1978, Harris and Murray had estabilised the Iron Maiden line-up with the addition of drummer Doug Sampson and vocalist Paul Di'Anno. Martini (manager - Don Drakulich). Original singer Paul Day was much punkier than the man who replaced him, the outlandish Dennis Wilcock, a huge KISS fan that used fire, makeup, and fake blood onstage. Sleazy P. Though Maiden were a metal band influenced by Deep Purple, Yes, Wishbone Ash, and Black Sabbath, they did possess a fast, punkish style in the early days. Slymenstra Hymen (GWAR Woman, vocalist - Danyelle Stampe). Harris and Murray went through a ridiculous number of band members throughout the 1970s, paying their dues on the mostly punk club circuit in London's rough East End neighbourhood.