GWAR recently released The New Dark Ages album, which harkens back to the band’s early 1990s sound. GWAR know what their long-time followers want because the creative team are their own biggest fans.
GWAR is an art collective, first and foremost, and Brockie’s mission was to fill some space in a culture desperately in need of pretentious deflation. The man who wore the “Cuttlefish of Cthulu” codpiece in the Oderus Urungus costume, Dave Brockie, died of an accidental heroin overdose at his home in Richmond, Virginia, in March 2014. This is GWAR includes current and archival interviews with the musicians and the creative team, as well as artists who appreciate the work, like Weird Al Yankovic, who gave his own face to the band when their frontman tried to pass himself off as a children’s party clown in a very animated project. It is also a special effects lab, a live musical theater troupe, and an independent filmmaking studio, all under a creative conglomeration called The Slave Pit Inc. GWAR have been teetering on the edge of commercial success for over 30 years. GWAR is best known as an iconic heavy metal monster band with gory stage shows, blistering lyrical assaults, and costumes which land bandmembers in court on indecency charges. Shudder’s new documentary This Is GWAR, directed by Scott Barber, charts the history and progress of one of the most insidious threats the planet Earth has ever encountered: An art collective who answer only to themselves and, possibly, their legion of fans.
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