T-Rex Terror and A Blood Covered legacy: An Interview w/ Grodius Maximus of GWAR
For forty years, GWAR has been delivering their unique and creative take on heavy metal for decades. Including a stage show that matches the raunchy, politically incorrect and violent nature, dowsing their fans in blood, semen, and any other bodily fluids they can think of. Leaving a bloody mess wherever the band has gone for forty years. With the band’s new EP, The Return of Gor-Gor, the band returns with an concept EP featuring three new tracks and four live tracks.
I was able to interview the band’s lead guitarist Grodius Maximus. We talk about the inspiration and story behind the band’s new EP The Return of Gor-Gor and the story behind the beast that is Gor-Gor. Their upcoming tour, potential new music and what GWAR’s plans are for the end of the world.
FMP: The band's new EP is called The Return of Gor-Gor. For the new fans, can you tell them who or what is Gor-Gor? And what is the story of the EP?
GRODIUS: Gor-Gor is GWAR’s massive crack-addicted pet T-Rex who loves eating pedophiles and narcissists—and narcissistic pedophiles—from all walks of life. Republicans, t-ball coaches, members of disgraced Welsh nü-metal band Falseprophets... you name it. Gor-Gor eats those child fuckers.
The new EP tells the story of Gor-Gor’s tragic upbringing and his transformation—from a cute little innocent baby dinosaur kidnapped by circus freaks, to a teenage truckstop sex slave, to the all-powerful cock rock superstar we all know and fear.
FMP: The new EP comes with a comic. I love the art style of it. Who did the art for the comic and who is publishing it?
GRODIUS: We’ve got this guy we keep around The Slave Pit. I forget his name—Mark Maguire or something? Maybe Mike? Honestly, I don’t really care. The only art I really appreciate is Ed Gein shit, you know what I’m saying? Like nipple belts and lampshades made of human skin. That’s art.
Oh, wait—my publicist says I’ll get more money if I answer this question seriously, because it might help sell comics. And that’s more money for more oysters… I’m in my oyster-eating phase right now and you’re distracting me from it, which pisses me off.
Okay. Fine. The comic artists are Matt Maguire and Stan Yak... Dan Mumford did the cover art... The publisher is some nerd ass company called Z2. There. You totally could have googled that... Can I get back to my oysters now?
FMP: With the band about to tour with Helmet, The Dwarves and Blood Vulture, what can fans expect with the band's live show on this tour?
GRODIUS: Ummm. We’ll probably kill a bunch of shit? What kind of question is that? We’re gonna play music, do drugs, eat oysters, and kill stuff—just like always. You want specifics? I don’t know. I’ll probably jack off into the crowd from the balcony during The Dwarves’ set into the crowd. That specific enough for you?
On the topic of touring, I wish we were touring with Silverchair instead but they went on indefinite hiatus back in 2010 or some shit. Their last album, Young Modern, is a fucking masterpiece. I want to tour with them and I want to tour with Tegan and Sara and I want to tour with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and I want to tour with Melted Bodies... And The Melvins. And Garth Brooks…
FMP: 2022's The New Dark Ages was the band's last album. After this tour, is the band beginning work on their sixteenth album?
GRODIUS: We’re never not working. We’re the hardest working band in existence. And yet, all we really do is masturbate all day and eat oysters. Who’s to say that’s not hard work? You don’t know the plight of GWAR, and you never will.
That’s how the hits happen. Smash songs like “Tyrant King” just flow right out of us—just like snot, blood, and liquid brain matter flowing from the freshly decapitated head of a five-year-old on the Gaza Strip. And that’s exactly what we envision when we’re writing songs. Human children being slaughtered. It’s our main inspiration.
FMP: The band has been immortalized in TV, Movies, Video Games and so much pop culture. Does the band have a favorite moment as a band being a part of pop culture?
GRODIUS: We created pop culture—and we hate it. We hate our creations even more than your Christian god hates his. Humans know nothing of true hatred. My hate births cosmic race wars, fuels global injustice, and begets loathsome spasms of regret from deep within my pus-filled loins.
Rotten smells. Corpse vibrations. Anti-natalist ideology. Squelching so loud your head explodes. Sticky black jism hurtling toward your delusional prosperity. I love your idiotic suffering.
What was the question again? Oh. Beavis and Butt-Head was cool. Whatever. I want oysters.
FMP: With the way the world is now, and Armageddon potentially looming, how does GWAR plan to celebrate the end of the world?
GRODIUS: The world’s already fucked. You’re all fucked. And you’re still out here raping your neighbors, blowing limbs off children, and beheading babies. Really cool of you. Keep going. This is the Armageddon you wanted, and you've got it! Congratulations.
Nothing makes GWAR’s collective cock throb harder than extreme cruelty and human-on-human genocide.
GWAR will still be here when you’re all extinct—pissing on your mass graves...
You can stream the band’s new EP The Return of Gor-Gor on Spotify or purchase the EP and comic from the band’s website. Check out the band on their fall North American tour where you can purchase tickets HERE. GWAR will also be celebrating their 40th anniversary with a livestream concert called Live From The Hellmouth August 22nd on VEEPS.
