GWAR Vocalist Compares New Album To Band’s Early ’90s Materials

Gwar will launch their first new album in 5 years The New Darkish Ages on June 3. Whereas we’ve not heard any music from the document simply but, vocalist Michael “Berserker Blóthar” Bishop has revealed in an interview with No Fuckin’ Regrets that the brand new stuff can be extra just like the band’s early ’90s materials. Which is not too shocking provided that Bishop performed bass as Beefcake the Mighty for the band between 1987 and 1993, after which once more between 1998 and 1999.

“This one has a number of selection on it that really I believe is extra just like the data we did within the ’90s, within the early ’90s. Partly that is as a result of I am enjoying bass on it, so it is simply obtained a distinct sound. The songs are… I believe it is simply possibly just a little extra punk than the final document. It is enjoyable. I find it irresistible.”

Bishop additionally touched on the brand new Gwar comedian Gwar In The Duoverse Of Absurdity, whose plot offers with Gwar being “sucked off into an alternate universe to do battle with their evil twins and the specter of rogue expertise.” Bishop mentioned the alternate universe Gwar is a rustic band, which obtained him pondering – what if Gwar made some nation music?

“That [alternate universe] Gwar is a rustic band. So I have been like, serious about… I am engaged on some nation tunes simply to have. I believe it might be humorous to do an EP of Gwar doing a little nation songs. I do not know what it is gonna be like, but it surely’s been enjoyable to fiddle with and take into consideration.”

Bishop beforehand described the album as such.

“That is the best rock document of all time. These are the songs for a brand new age, a New Darkish Age, when males stay by the dimming gentle of a expertise destined to betray them. Pay attention, as we have now a rock and roll orgy within the ruins of the world to have fun humanity’s descent into an age of darkness, illness, ignorance, and dying.”Commercial. Scroll to proceed studying.

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