A definitive ranking of the Best Metal Albums of All Time, from Black Sabbath's Paranoid to Slayer's Reign in Blood to Metallica's Master of Puppets.

The studio setup and the internal fraying of The Band led to a newly ad hoc record-making process, where only a couple of ...

Controversial '90s Metal Band Makes Major Announcement and Fans Are Losing It first appeared on Parade on Jun 24, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 24, 2025, where it first ...

According to GWAR mythology, the band’s members are millions-year-old warrior aliens exiled to Earth. After emerging in the late 1980s from the bowels of an abandoned dairy building in Richmond ...

Kevin Smith is bringing the kings of shock rock to the Shore. The film "dives into the wild and blood-soaked history of GWAR, the most outrageous band in shock rock, chronicling their rise from ...

With band members named Sawborg Destructo, Grodius Maximus and Bonesnapper, just to name a few, Gwar features over-the-top costumes, geysers of (fake) blood and mock executions accompanied ...

This past Monday, news broke that GWAR guitarist Brent Purgason, who’d played as Pustulus Maximus since 2012, was leaving the band on good terms. It was an unexpected turn of events that fans ...

Blöthar is frontman for Gwar, the grotesquely costumed metal band infamous for their wild, fake-blood/fake-other-fluids-spewing stage show. What’s less known about Gwar is that the members of ...

As you count the days until that GWAR figurine pre-order, curb your grip sweats with some of the band’s Bud of Gods CBD and Delta products. Also be sure to catch the Scumdogs on their Fall 2023 ...

At a Charlotte, North Carolina, concert in 1990, Gwar’s onstage theatrics, which involved a crucifix, props and sexually explicit actions, led to the arrest of a band member afterward, according ...

Gwar received a metal performance Grammy nomination for its track “S.F.W.” in 1996. Watch the band’s full performance on NPR’s YouTube page.

DETROW: As much as I'd like to say the Richmond, Va., based band was in the building to see me, the truth is they were popping in to say hi after wrapping up a set at NPR's Tiny Desk.