In a new interview with TribLIVE.com, Blöthar The Berserker explained why GWAR is different from Slayer or Incubus.
“Gwar is an original. It’s very original, and people recognize that it’s unlike anything else,” the vocalist said about why people feel drawn to GWAR. “And I think that it is certainly fun to watch it, and I think really that is another key ingredient.”
He continued, “It’s like Gwar is fun, right? And you go watch a lot of bands, man [laughs]. Last night my wife went to see Coheed and Cambria and Incubus, and she messaged me and she’s like oh my god, this is just so [expletive] boring.”
“And Gwar’s not boring. Gwar is entertaining, and it’s funny, and when we play, you go and see a metal show and it’s always been interesting to me that people will be smiling and laughing at a Slayer show, but at a Gwar show they’re just exuberant,” Blöthar explained. “People are just having the time of their lives, and I think that’s that’s what it is.”
“GWAR is a theatrical heavy metal rock ‘n’ roll performance art rock band — so many words. But we’re also a group of intergalactic space aliens who were banished to the planet Earth,” the singer previously described GWAR in a chat with Nicholas Kobe.
Blöthar added, “We were members of an elite fighting force in outer space, but we screwed up so many times that they sent us to this insignificant crap hole planet, where we quickly became rock stars because that’s what was the most available employment path to us. So that’s what we do. We hang out on earth and screw up and play rock music.”
“I think GWAR appeals to outcasts. It appeals to people who look around themselves and say, ‘Why am I here?’ That is really our bread and butter. I think also GWAR has a sense of creative energy that appeals to some people who are interested in not only art, but in particular, low art, right? They’re interested in getting rid of the pretension of art, and in celebrating things that are actually fun – like comic books and horror movies and science fiction and comedy,” he also said.
GWAR announced their The Stoned Age US tour for Fall 2024. Dark Funeral, Squid Pisser, and Cancer Bats will support them. The tour starts on October 17 in Las Vegas and ends on November 20 in Nashville.