GWARMORIAL WEEK FINALE: TOP TEN GWAR ALBUMS

GWAR has been terrorizing the galaxy for more than a quarter century. They have a catalog of great albums but we know how you maggots love lists so here is your GWAR list Human FILTH!

10) America Must Be Destroyed (1992)

ten was probably the hardest number to chose on this list there were a few great ones that got left off this list, but American Must be destroyed smashes its way on the list with a slew of great songs like “GOR-GOR” “The Road Behind” and “The Morality Squad” it was also the basis for the movie “Phallus in Wonderland”

9) Hell-O (1988)

 This was Gwar's Debut Album. It featured a sounds more link to their punk roots. With tracks that stand the test of time like “Gwar Theme” “Pure As the Arctic Snow” “I am in Love (With A Dead Dog)” this album set a tone that would be beat into our stupid human skulls for the next 26 years.

8)Ragnarök (1995)

 Ragnarök is the fifth Album by GWAR. It featured songs that were main stays at every concert Gwar played right up to the end. “Meat Sandwich” is one of the most played songs live at Gwar shows. Also features awesome rifts “Crush, Kill, Destroy” “None But the Brave” “Dirty Filthy”

7) This toilet Earth (1994)

The fourth Album has the distinction of being the first Gwar Album Censored. The Artwork and track listing was changed to exclude “B.D.F. (baby Dick Fuck)” The Art was also censored. Skulhedface was a movie released to coincide with this album. This album features the most successful single of Gwars reign “Saddam a Go-Go” also “slap U around” “Krak Down” and “Jack The World”, featured in the Beavis and Butthead Game.

6) War Party (2004)

This was Gwar's frist album after switching record labels to DRT Entertainment. It also marked a return to political Metal that was present on “America Must be Destroyed. Gwar conquered the 2004 American election and the war in Iraq in such songs as "Bring Back the Bomb", "Krosstika", "War Party", "The Reaganator" and "You Can't Kill Terror"

5) Carnival of Chaos (1997)

The sixth studio album. It is perhaps most notable as their longest album (exceeding 74 minutes), and also as the album that contains the most solo numbers: "Don't Need a Man". "The Private Pain of Techno Destructo", “Hate Love Songs” Songs from Carnival have not been in the band's set-lists for a number of years except for the group occasionally playing "Penguin Attack" and "Back to Iraq"

4) Battle Maximus (2013)

The thirteenth studio album by Gwar is a great one. Following the death of Cory Smoot (Flattus Maximus) The Character was retired and replaced by Pustulus Maximus. This is also the last Album to feature Oderous (Dave Brockie) as he died in 2014. The album's description reads: “"Battle Maximus" was conceived and recorded over the last year at the bands self-operated Slave Pit Studios, and was mixed by veteran metal producer Glen Robinson and mastered by the matchless Howie Weinberg. It features twelve brand-new tracks of sonic sedition guaranteed to make even the most hardened GWAR fans head explode, merely by looking at the packaging. With songs like "Madness at the Core of Time", "Torture", and "They Swallowed the Sun", the album not only tells the next chapter in the never-ending story of GWAR, but also stands as a tribute to the band's long-time guitar player, the incomparable Flattus Maximus, who left Earth and returned to the cosmos to fulfill his glorious destiny almost two years ago.

Rather than attempt to emulate the UN-matchable sound of Flattus, who had led the band from the depths of clown-rock to the elite tier of top-notch metal acts with a series of bone-crushing recordings starting with 2000's "Violence Has Arrived", Oderus and company struck out in a bold new direction. Enlisting the aid of Pustulus Maximus, cousin of Flattus, who wrested the right to join forces with GWAR after waging the epic "Battle Maximus", GWAR has created one of their most awe-inspiring albums to date, one that is sure to join the ranks of "Scumdogs of the Universe" and "Lust in Space", as the ultimate expressions of GWAR's contempt for modern society and the hypocrisy and horror of a world gone mad.

Get ready, human scum...GWAR is coming...all over your face!"

3) Violence Has Arrived (2001)

 This Album was released in November. According to an interview with Dave Brockie, it was supposed to be released on Sept. 11, 2001. Violence Has Arrived was Casey Orr's last Gwar album before he took an extended leave from the band. "Immortal Corrupter" is the sole video from this album, and features Orr in the role of Beefcake the Mighty for the last time before he left. This album is a Harold a return to the metal sound of years passed. Given the failure of We Kill Everything Gwar wanted to go back towards the Scumdog sounds, with more of a mid evil sense. Song list include “Abyss Of Woe” “Immortal Corrupter” “licksore” and “BileDriver”

2) Scumdogs Of The Universe (1990)

Scumdogs is the second album.  It is to this date the band's best selling album. If you are a Gwar fan who has been around for a while there is no way this wasn't your favorite album by them at one point or another. "Slaughterama" features Sleazy P. Martini, Sexecutioner sings his namesake song, and the album's closer, "Cool Place To Park," debuts bassist BeefCake. This album also featured mainstays in the GWAR rotation “Maggots” “DeathPod”

1) Lust in Space (2009)

This is the eleventh studio album by GWAR. It was their first album since returning to their old label  Metal Blade Records. The cover is an homage/parody of the Kiss Album Love Gun. It was hard for me to put anything over Scumdogs, as that is the album that got me into GWAR. But the more I listen the more I am convinced this is the greatest GWAR album. It outdoes Scumdogs on a lot of Tracks: "Lust In Space," "Metal Metal Land," "Let Us Slay," "Release The Flies," "The Price Of Peace," "Uberklaw," and "Lords And Masters." hell I should be listing the whole album on here. If you have never listened to Gwar and only want to try it once start here. This was an album celebrating 25years of GWAR and it is a masterpiece.

Well there you have it ten Gwar albums to make you sit at home and sulk because your only human filth.

From All of us here at BrokeBlog thanks for joining us for GWARMORIAL Week. We hope you had as much fun reading these posts as we did writing them.

RIP Cory Smoot

RIP Dave Brockie

ALL HAIL GWAR!

~CA