What first got you into being in a band? Well, the same thing that everyone is drawn to it for, it's the sex, the drugs, and the women. Oh no, it was more like the lies, the debauchery, the desire to be part of an incredibly hypocritical industry that basically takes all the money away from the artists that deserve it and put it into the pockets of stupid fat people who know nothing about music whatsoever. Are you one of those stupid fat people then? No, I'm one of those people that is corrupting the industry from within, in fact, my entire design, my art, my music, is a dagger aimed at the jugular vein of everything that I hold as vile. So basically, I'm dedicated to eradicating my own existence. How would you describe GWAR's evolution since the release of Hell-O in 1988? I would have to say that GWAR, musical masters that we are, we've experiment a lot. We started with the most crude forms of music, you know, low brow punk rock, then we started getting more into metal. We'd been asleep for several million years, so it took us a little while to warm up. We worked through so many different genres, and done so many different crazy/weird things with our music, but on Violence Has Arrived, I feel that we've kind of come back to the true metal roots that I truly feel define GWAR more than anything else. Do bands today influence your music at all? If anything, it's only made it harder than ever for GWAR to look stupid. I have little except utter disdain and scorn for the music I hear coming from the human race now a days. It is corporately driven, it is emotionless, it is idiotic, but now, tasteless, a mockery of the true artists. And when I speak of true artists, I speak of Thin Lizzy. I hate it! I fucking hate it! I hate Marilyn Manson! My god, does anyone think that he is original? He is like this grotesque, counter-cultural butt fucking of Alice Cooper, and you've got a little KISS thrown in there, and a little Trent Reznor thrown in there. Oh, he is a whining, fat, gross, disgusting piece of shit. I read this interview with him, they're like "why do you think you're such a great producer?" and he didn't even bat an eye, he was just like "well, the reasons why I'm such a great producer are blah blah blah blah blah." You know what? You don't call yourself great. Other people call you great. When you start agreeing with people telling you how great you are, that is when you become a complete piece of shit. I pretty much think it's all crap. Now there are some bands out there, the bands you'll never hear on the radio, that truly thrive on the aggression and the tension of the times. I almost used to rejoice a few years ago when I started hearing more heavy music on the radio, then I realized what a bunch of crap it was. Like that one band, "Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort." I don't want to hear about your fucking family problems, you fucking whiny pussy poser rock star. I don't want to hear about "my obsession", "my money", or "I don't need that shit." What a bunch of crap, what a liar. That dude's dad owns like 50% of the radio stations in Los Angeles. You don't need money, fuck you, then fucking crash your tour bus off a cliff. You're not a rebel, you're a poser, you're a corporately created piece of fucking shit, and GWAR is dedicated to your destruction. So what music do you want to hear people singing? GWAR music, of course! The music of The Slave Pit, X-Cops, DBX (the Dave Brockie Experience), and the greatest band that ever fucking existed, GWAR. Listen to our new record, and if you can sit there and tell me that any other metal band ever did a fucking album anywhere half as good, half as relevant, half as meaningful, then I will kick you right in the fucking nuts and say thank you. What led you to choose Grant Ruttledge as your producer? If you've ever searched the credits lists for various things we've done, Grant's name pops up all the time. He owns a studio in Antarctica, known as Montana (I don't know why he calls it Montana, it's in Antarctica), but anyway, he's worked on many projects, the X-Cops projects, and many different GWAR projects. This time we were like "Grant, you fucking rule, you're an amazing engineer, and you're a great dude, plus, you have good weed, so fuck it, we're going to let you produce our fucking record. So, it was a true group effort, and we did record it at our own studio, but Grant was the man who kept that bloody juggernaut moving in one direction. Is there one GWAR song or album that you like more than the others? Yes, the new album, I think it's the greatest album we've ever done. A lot of people will go "oh no, it was Scumdogs, or Oh no, America Must Be Destroyed". But when they fully deal with what this album is all about; when they look at the art that comes with this album, when they see the show that comes with this album… When they have experienced what GWAR is going to be doing to this human race, this year, as your society crumbles into much and mire as the very doomsday apocalyptic prophesies that GWAR has been foretelling for years come true in front of your faces in a way that you could never have imagined. There has never better time for GWAR to strike the earth as living gods and rub your faces in the shit of your own civilization. How important is it to have a spectacular stage show, and not just stand on stage and play instruments? I don't know, we don't really have a show. We just kind of get up there, stand on stage, and play. Then the next thing you know, here comes OJ, or the Pope, or Techno-Destructo, or Gor-Gor. We're forced to fight for our lives against a variety of nuclear powered menaces. We don't go to any great lengths to prepare for our shows, we just get out there and start killing things. How do you think that these antics affect who can come see the show? Do you think some people are deterred or not allowed to come because of this, especially your target audience? There is no target audience, the target is the human race and you entire civilization. It's buildings, societies infrastructures, and yes, the people that populate them. If you were talking to someone who had never heard of GWAR, or (Oderus cuts in) I would say they were a fucking idiot who lives in a cave with Osama bin Laden, eating rats. If you wanted to describe GWAR to them, how you would do it? I would say it's kind of like getting smashed upside the head repeatedly with a bent sledgehammer. All the while, having loads of sperm dumped upon your entire family while you sit there, your hands and legs tied behind your back, with a pool cue inserted in your mouth, and you just cry, cry, cry. If you despise earth so much, why are you proud of the fact that GWAR rules it? Well, we don't, it's a fight. There are other enemies out there, we try our best to dominate the world, but quite frankly, I'm so addicted to crack that I get a little distracted now and then. I'm really not proud of anything, but as creator of the human race, I feel that it is a mistake, and that it is my responsibility to correct. That makes sense. Yeah, sure. I mean shit, you're like a retarded child. No matter how hard I beat you, you don't seem to learn. The death camp is the only answer. In the band GWAR, what do you think your most memeroble experience has been? Well, I guess feeding Jerry Springer to the world maggot was a pretty good one. Bum-rushing the Grammies, another good one. Seeing how all these stupid scary clown bands emulate GWAR, yet have absolutely nothing of cultural or redeeming worth to say about anything, that's kind of funny. It's just been kind of a never-ending revolving mess of blood, guts, metal mayhem, and I don't know… I shook Tommy Lee's hand once, and while I was shaking it and pulling his arm out of its socket, I was like "Wow, this is the hand that's been finger-fucking Pamela Anderson." I'd ask him if I could shake his dick, but by that time, he was already on his way to the hospital. What words of warning do you have for anyone going to a GWAR show? No warning, no warning, just an invitation. A beautiful, guilded, felt lined invitation. Oh, come see GWAR, it's really pleasant. Oh, it's not scary, we're not going to chop your head off, we're not gonna rape the Pope with his own leg, we're not going to summon a gigantic tyrannosaurus from outer space to eat the entire audience. It's really nice, it's kind of like Mary Poppins. Do you think such fancy invitations would make people suspicious? I don't care what they are as long as I get their money and their heads. Which is more important, the heads or the money? The heads. All we need the money for is to wipe our butts with.