GWAR guitarist dies: A review of the theatricality of the band

“entryText”> GWAR fans, the belt speed metal shock rock known for its monstrous disguises, are mourning the guitarist , which was found dead Thursday when the group was traveling to Canada for a performance. Smoot, known to fans as the character Flattus Maximus, was a band member since 2002. “blog_caption”> ((Courtesy GWAR))

name = “pagebreak” /> According to the Associated Press, Smoots age and cause of death are not clear. Smoot was the guitarist of the sixth to play the role of Maximus Flattus, and making the show has become a part of the theater of the band on stage mythology. To see a GWAR concert is to see a bloody funny series of vignettes, musicians with monster costumes that may have been inspired by the creatures of HP Lovecraft.

2004 In a GWAR concert in Washington, Mike Post is very detailed some of the sketches of the band:

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band as “angry monkey”, “Horror of Yig” and “Biledriver” the public was invited to such turnouts Caligula as a woman in a bikini breathing fire, a broken wrist to be a great song Papa Tyrannosaurus rex named Gor-Gor, and a pair of slave bondage whipping each other with bloody entrails torn from a figure like the president of the United States.

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opening night with a high tempo crowd favorite GWAR no. Open to decapitate an unknown apparently helpless looking, only to have his head cut off spray the whole multitude of blood.

“blog_caption”> ((Courtesy GWAR)) its bloody GWAR align theater with a 19-century French theater movement called . The name of a Parisian theater known for his particularly bloody, Grand Guignol is mutilition, disembowling, beheadding, throat clearing, the same snd-acid release. “Eyeball gouging have always been popular, the eyes of animals is particularly useful for this purpose that this could be a basis to bounce when hitting the ground,” reports the . The theatrical tradition was extinguished once the horror films became popular, but some companies, such as the goal of “a =” _blank “href = http://ping.fm/BRTMc content / article / 15.04.2010 “/ AR2010041502289.html”> Molotov Theatre Group in Washington, trying to revive the tradition. He also lives in the canyons of blood and ritual sacrifice of GWAR model.

Flattus Maximus, Smoot made pads heads of dinosaurs, and a red skull of Cro-Magnon. Costumes of other members of GWAR “are developed: The singer Oderus Urungus (played by Dave Brockie) is a horn barbarians, and Balsac the jaws of death (played by Mike Derks) has hooves and a mask-like giant bear trap. His creativity by supporting and creating the costumes were recognized by an art gallery in Richmond in 2006, Artspace, which organized a show of his work.