GWAR INTERVIEW
November 8, 2002

Ed Martin for Prophecy21.com: How has the tour been going so far?
Oderus Urungus singer for Gwar: Relentless, bloody, horrific, sickening, drunken, all the things you'd expect from a tour. Horrible acts that I can't even mention on tape for fear of incrimination or at least abuse from my fellow band members. But yeah, good good. We actually got paid to do it as well which is the amazing part.

P21: When do you plan on starting work on the next album?
OU: I mean it started in the fact that we're thinking about doing it, but we're gonna take our time. We wrote Violence Has Arrived in 3 weeks we thought about what kind of record we wanted to write all year but when it came down to sittin there and actually workin we did that in 3 weeks and despite that it still came out pretty fuckin good, but we want take our time I mean take a good long time. We've toured like motherfuckers this year, had a lot of fun all the fans got to see Gwar a few times. We just wanna take our time and right a really fuckin good album. I'd say maybe next fall we'll start writin the album and start recordin around this time next year. I've got a new DBX record thats gonna be comin out soon so I'll be tourin a lot this summer workin on some of that crazy shit. You've got to keep it varied and jumbled or any project will get stale. Gwar is something instead of doing full time we really only two every two years or maybe even three. I mean we still tour every year, but were definitely not an album a year kind of band it takes us a good two or three years to generate our records. I think it will be longer lived because of that though we should keep puttin stuff out until were physically incapable of getting up on stage anymore.

P21: Do you guys plan on making a new video anytime soon?
OU: Right now no plans on that. We spent a lot of time and effort on gettin this DVD together a bunch of people concentratin on live shows. We don't really have anythin in the budget for that either. We're over the point in our careers where we're just gonna relentlessly bust our humps and spent our own money to make this fuckin shit if someone wants to give us money to make a movie then we'll do it. But inevitably people that wanna do movies with Gwar come out get all their friends in the show for free then they disappear, then you see some other movie come out that looks like it has Gwar in it, but its not really Gwar, so who knows when we'll do that kind of shit again.

P21: How will the stage show be different this time then it was on the Blood Drive tour?
OU: The biggest difference is that Slymenstra Hymen is here and she's pissed because she wasn't included on the last album, Gwar lied to her and told her that they weren't making an album just so they could make sure she wasn't on it. Then they went on tour without her, so shes back now all pissed ready to beat the shit out of Oderus. There's some other additions like some big giant ambiguous rubber monsters that bleed a lot then collapse in a heap. So there's some different stuff, but it shares the same elements of being loud, violent, and messy, very, very, fucking messy. Now your interviewin BalSac as well isn't that great he just walked in.

P21: What bands that you have played with in the past have been some of your favorites?
OU: The Meat Men, Neurosis, The Dickies were great.
BalSac The Jaws of Death Guitarist for Gwar: Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Queen.
OU: We never played with Black Sabbath or Queen...
BS: Well Nirvana did open up for us once.
OU: Nirvana did not open up for us.
BS: They did too at The Pyramid Club.
OU: They played a different night then us.
BS: They did?
OU: Yeah, your on drugs.
BS: Well so are you.
OU: Yeah but im on better drugs then you.
BS: Yeah well give me some.
OU: I don't have any I did em all that's why I'm so high.

P21: What bands would you like to get to play with that you haven'?

OU: Queen, Nirvana. God damn it I'm a monster from outer space and im struggling to open this lunch bologna. I'd like to play with Britney Spears.
BS: Hell yeah I'd like to play with Britney Spears.
OU:....with her boobies. Have you seen the new Christina Aguilera? She's all slutty lookin its not so good she looked better bein all skinny and not slutty. I think I like Britney better again. Christina looks like she put on a few pounds tryin to be all voluptuous, but it didn't take well to her. She looked better as a skinny little waif that needed to be raped. Alright now back to the interview.

P21: How do you guys go about writing?
OU: I wait til the last second til they have no choice but to accept what I write cuz the albums due like the next day so even if it sucks they have to deal with it.
BS: We pretty much record the whole album then Oderus stumbles into the studio all fucked up kills the producer and screams a lot. And we're stuck with it.
OU: I get a lot of criticism because of that, but thats the only way I know.

P21: What's your favorite song to play live?
OU: The one where I yell.
BS: Yeah that ones good I like that one.
OU: I like playin shit off the new album cuz I think the new album kicks fuckin ass and it's the heaviest shit we've done in a long time and all the songs are pretty hateful and awful. Theres no soft stuff or crap.

P21: Which song on Violence Has Arrived is your favorite?
OU: The one where I yell. Oh and then I scream a lot and talk about destroying everything then I say Fuck really loud.
BS: Yeah that one is a great song.
OU: Immortal Corruptor is a great one to play, we're playing that tonight. That's a good long epic, lots of double bass.

P21: Do you guys have any shows that really stick out in your mind?
OU: We got back into Canada this year and we played in, of all places, Calgary and it was one of the biggest shows we've played in ten years. Which really just means we made like more money that night then we had in ten years. Actually I think it was the most we ever made cuz there was a lot of drug dealers there spendin all there drug money on merch. I think there was maybe one show at the Palladium where we made more.

P21: What bands have you been listening to lately?
OU: I've been listening to a lot of Gwar
BS: Yeah me too, almsot every night I hear some Gwar.
OU: Lately also Bloodlet and Six.

P21: How bout bands that you aren't touring with right now?

OU: Actually I didn't bring any CD's on this tour cause I just lose em all.
BS: I did, but everyone hates what I listen to.
OU: Cuz all you listen to is Britney Spears. Actually, people would be shocked and apauled to hear that Oderus likes U2 and BalSac likes cheesy girl bands.
BS: Yeah, but I played the Avril Lavigne CD for Oderus and he actually liked a couple songs.
OU: I wanna fuck her, with my leg, with a wild pig attached to my foot. Yeah, that would be fun.

P21: Do you like the bands that you've been playing with lately?
OU: Yeah I like Bloodlet a lot and Cattle Decapitation I was really impressed with.
BS: Six just got on the tour and we haven't really gotten the feel for them yet they seem like nice guys though.
OU: How bad can it be if someones up their tryin to make music at least they're given it a shot right. Not to say that Six sucks.
BS: Six sucks is hard to say.
OU: That would be a good name for a band Six Sucks Six. Honestly we're in a band we don't get to experience music like the fans do. I haven't seen Slayer and there one of my favorite bands and it sucks cuz I miss out on a lot cuz im always workin. Occasionally though maybe you get lucky and like on a day off of your tour a band you sort of like playin and they'll invite you to the show and then the lead singer calls you out to the stage and goes we don't need to wear no damn costumes. That's what happend with Phil from Pantera he invited us to see one of his stupid side projects hes up on stage points us out and goes, "We don't need to where no stupid costumes to rock out." We're invited to shows to be insulted from the stage. The music industry sucks man.

P21: Thanks. Is there anythin else either of you wanna add?
OU: I think that pretty much sums it up that and there is pretty much no limit to the level of corruption and self prostitution that we'll engage in in order to finance the fact we don't wanna get a real job ever.