It wouldn’t be a season of A.V. Undercover without an appearance from GWAR, especially when the lineup consists of returning acts, including OK Go, Rhett Miller, and The Wood Brothers. The only real ...

A.V. Undercover, the A.V. Club's series in which bands were invited to be filmed performing a cover chosen from an ever-dwindling list of pre-selected songs, is one of the great blog-era video ...

Nobody is safe from Gwar. For decades, the costumed thrash metal collective has imbued their live shows with comically over-the-top acts of mock violence against right-wing political figures like ...

A heavy metal band called Gwar pretended to “murder President Trump” and even staged a mock “beheading of Elon Musk” at Chicago's Riot Fest this weekend. At Chicago's Riot Fest, Gwar staged a mock ...

First Amendment experts says the long-running satirical band's over-the-top schtick is precisely what free speech protections are all about. By Gil Kaufman For more than 40 years, the members of ...

A look-alike mannequin of Musk was rolled out, wearing sunglasses, a cap, a “D.O.G.E.” t-shirt, jeans, and a jacket. One band member swung a sword and chopped off its head. Fake blood sprayed ...

Followers of Donald Trump are rallying against Gwar, after footage of the intergalactic heavy metal band ‘disembowelling’ someone dressed as the US president was posted online. During their set at ...

Bassist Beefcake the Mighty of GWAR performs at Riot Fest 2024 at Douglass Park on Sept. 22 in Chicago. The band arrives in Albany Saturday night for an Empire Live show. Guitarist Balsac the Jaws of ...

The feverish squeal came from a chubby, round-faced pipsqueak behind me who couldn’t have been past eleven years old. His blond hair was plastered to his head with sweat, and he was pumping his fists ...

Lead singers are a different breed in general, but most of them don’t have horns, udders, four penises, and a sideways vagina lined with teeth. Blöthar the Berserker kinda has that lane to himself.

It’s the collaboration that nobody had in mind, but everyone should be glad it exists: Metal band Gwar has played NPR’s famed Tiny Desk. The over-the-top, outrageously dressed group members made note ...