GWAR’s Mission

Theatrical heavy metal band GWAR is on a mission. According to GWAR’s manager, Sleazy P. Martini, they are making sure people get a resolution of this year’s presidential election process during what they like to call their “90% population reduction” expedition, otherwise known as the “Electile Dysfunction ‘08” tour.

Each show features a combination of GWAR, Mid-Galactic Wrestling and the 2008 Presidential Election. “Why not hanging intestine of the opponents?”

Martini says. “John McCain disembowled and skinned alive, Barak Obama decapitated, Hilary Clinton, you know, debreasted. That’s what people really want to see…like the blood sport of the old days…chuck them in there and let them fight their way out…maybe people will decide they really aren’t worthy of deciding global warming.”

Coming to GWAR’s show may mean getting smacked in the face with John McCain’s guts. It also means wrestling matches between GWAR, Sawborg Destructo and Bozo Destructo, brothers of GWAR’s well-known cosmic foe, Techno-Destructo. Martini is confident that GWAR’s November 4 show at the Venue at the Hub will contain the usual amount of “evisceration, decapitation and grinding of corpses that happens every night at every show.”

Martini also had this to say about the GWAR show in Fargo: “We try to be clean, and orderly. But you wouldn’t believe how much PSI is in someone’s aortic artery. You lop that sucker off and it’s like a cheap Japanese Samurai film. Basically, you got some wrestling, you got some monsters, we’ve even been having some trouble with Nancy Regan. She’s been reentering the corpse of Ronald Regan and then some sort of cybernetic giant power suit and then attacking the stage and we have to dispatch Ronald Regean’s corpse every night.”

When the talk turned to GWAR’s musical style, Martini had this to say: “In their twenty-three year history, GWAR has gone through a lot of phases…GWAR started with the more punky-thrash metal stage early that’s rough and crude. “Scumdogs of the Universe” is a good one [album] to listen to for that. You know, your more heavy metal type era, and that would be more “Violence Has Arrived.” Won’t cause your stereo to melt immediately.

Won’t cause your cerebral cortex to melt down, and, you might even enjoy it, who knows?”

According to Martini, GWAR is still enjoying their “heavy-metally” style right now and it shows. 2006 and 2007 marked major movement in their career.

Their fifteenth album, “Beyond Hell,” a rock opera detailing GWAR’s descent into hell as earth’s armies chased them, was released in August of 2006, and contained a remake of Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out.” The video was nominated for Best Video of 2006 on MTV2’s Headbanger’s Ball.

GWAR performed in the Sounds of the Underground 2006 Tour and headlined the same tour in 2007. GWAR lead singer Oderus Urungus was featured on the Strapping Young Lad release, “The New Black.” GWAR also performed at the Rock & Shock Festival in October of 2006.

GWAR had their own line of action figures through Shocker Toys, LLP, released in 2007.

GWAR’s lead singer Oderus Unguerus hosted the Golden Hammer Gods awards in 2008. “The ejaculating and the vomiting and all of the other things were kept to a minimum, kept to the backstage.” said Martini. “Only at one point did he have his ass in the air, flailing about helplessly. That was during the post-ceremonial photo shoot afterward. That’s his best side anyway, so, he showed it to the press and they loved it. They ate it up.”

It looks like Fargo is in for a real show Monday night, November 3, at the Venue at the Hub. All ages are welcome as GWAR takes on not only the famous Destructo Brothers but also Obama, McCain and Clinton (with a little Nancy and Ronald Reagan thrown in) in a winner takes all no holds barred wrestling match/heavy metal concert. Music and a show, an unbeatable combination.

If You Go

What: GWAR
Where: The Venue @ The Hub
When: Mon, Nov 3
How Much: $19 + service charges
Who: All ages
Info: 701.232.6767