Gwar – “Carnival of Chaos”
Damn, what a band! You either love this band or hate them, I love em!! I remember when I first heard about this band from non-other than MTV news back in 88. When I got to see them live for the first time, (Thanks mom.) this 15 year old boy was shocked at what he was seeing, well, not as bad as my mom. GWAR has progressed in there own special way from album to album and has came up with some new and great tunes. This effort is pretty cool, not as cool as “Ragnarock”, but still pretty cool, but then again, nothing beats “Hell-o” in my opinion. GWAR once again has came up with an album full of diversity in the song writing. The song sung by SLYMENSTRA, “Don’t Need A Man” is so, so pretty. They need to give this goddess at least 2 songs per album I think. Some of the songs on this album are slower than what I’m used to hearing from their albums, but after a while they grew on me. The song “Sex Cow” is so fucking awesome, so different, and no, not because I can relate to it either, or can I? The thing I thought was cool, was the return of Techno-Destructo. After listening to the song though, some of the riffing/song had the same riff on certain parts of the song as on the “Hell-o” version. I was hoping for something a bit different, but nonetheless it is a cool song of course. I must also add, Oderus is one of the best and most original vocalists for what he does. Overall, this is GWAR! You know who they are, what they are about, so fall to your knees and worship!