Where is gwar from

The story of Gwar is pretty much the typical rock 'n' roll myth. The Master, a planet-sized evil overlord at the beginning of time, created a group of evil executioners called the Scumdogs of the Universe, who went on an interplanetary killing spree for thousands of years. Eventually they rebelled against the Master, but he deployed the Death Pod and banished the Scumdogs, also known as Gwar, to planet Earth, where they committed atrocities for many more millions of years.

Finally, the Master caught up to the Scumdogs again and froze them in a tomb in Antarctica, where they remained until the s, when hair-metal bands freed Gwar by burning a hole in the ozone with excessive hair spray. There is an alternate story. The frontman for Gwar is not an interplanetary executioner at all but a mild-mannered guy, Dave Brockie, 48, who conceived the band in the '80s, when he and his friends were students at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va.

Borrowing from visual, high-concept hard-rock acts such as Kiss and Alice Cooper, Gwar worked a bit on its crude speed metal but focused on its over-the-top spectacle of a concert. Its ensemble showcased characters such as Balsac the Jaws of Death guitar and Jizmak the Gusher drums , and a typical show included game-show "beheadings" of vacuous celebrities and fake blood sprayed copiously onto the crowd. Gwar's second release, 's "Scumdogs of the Universe," is one of hard rock's great comedy albums, introducing the Sexecutioner "Excuse me, but what good is all the violence in the world, unless it is tempered with limitless sex?

During that time they would appear in their home town under the pseudonym Rawg and play sans costumes. The ban was later lifted and the band can now play in Richmond again in full gory attire. Gwar fans are known as Bohabs or Scumdogs.

A final possibility, and the most viable as of yet, coming from sources close to the band suggests strongly that the name comes from the answer David Brockie gave to Hunter Jackson when asked what the band should be called. David Brockie simply responded with a mostly unintelligble word and isolated a single sound out of the rubble therefore creating GWAR. On Sunday March 23, , Brockie was found dead in his apartment by a band member.

According to police, Brockie was found deceased and sitting upright in a chair. His body was found Sunday by his band mate at his home in Richmond, VA. Richmond authorities have confirmed his death and next of kin has been notified.

A full autopsy will be performed. He was 50 years old, born August 30, My main focus right now is to look after my band mates and his family. More information regarding his death shall be released as the details are confirmed.

He was brash sometimes, always crass, irreverent, he was hilarious in every way. It takes immeasurable mass to hold down the incredibly heavy bottom end of GWAR. Luckily, there is Beefcake, the heaviest of heavy metal bassists. HOBBIES: Cooking, eating, gnoshing, biting, gluttony, chewing, gorging, consumption, devouring, dining, feasting, gobbling, gourmandizing, having a meal, masticating, bingeing, nibbling, munching, overindulgence, pigging out, snacking, and most things involving food.

Much like the blackout of a violent drunk, upon awakening, I forget why I was mad. HOBBIES: Hoarding guitars, drugs, alcohol, frequent masturbation, turning man against man, searching for the remains of the Ramones to add to his corpse-puppet band. Melted out of Antarctic ice just 3 days after GWAR, he spent the next 17 years trying to reconnect with them. Initially an enemy, then an ally, but always an object of ridicule Bonesnapper still gets no respect.

This Scumdog was built on Scumdogia by another Destructo. Hobbies: Surfing on the wakes of comets and smashing them into black holes, you know just for fun! Goals in this Life: To complete my mission and bring the renegade Scumdogs back to Master and fight as many enemies deep in the far reaches of this universe!