Interviews

Interview with Beefcake and Pustulus of GWAR

Published

7 years ago

July 27, 2017

Ron

Empire Extreme while at the Warped Tour stop in Baltimore Maryland tracked down intergalactic overlords Beefcake the Almighty and Pustulus Maximus of GWAR and before they could realize that I have been tricking them into the interview with hopes of much blood, chaos and Old Bay Seasoning, I needed to act fast while securing that my head won’t be on the menu tonight.

Empire: This is your first Warped Tour, How’s it been going so far?
BC: It is?
PM: I can’t wait for it to be over.
BC: it’s all a blur.

Empire: I seen that you guys just opened up for some comic books?
BC: Opened up for them? Ya they play right after us.
Empire: I meant just came out with some comic books…
PM: well we are trying to head off trumps new America at the path. The way it is with books and literacy. Once Nancy, Betsy, duvas whatever her name is fucks up the education system, we got to have picture books.
Empire: Has everyone been buying the comic books?
BC: Yes….
Empire: Will you kill them if they don’t?
BC: Yes….
PM: I’ll kill them even if they do buy it

Empire: So let’s talk about Kathy Griffin.
BC: We really don’t give a shit about Kathy just like most people.
PM: She’s a back peddler
BC: She’s also a bit stealer, like most comedians nowadays. Stealing our bits, you know we did that first.
PM: She’s like a sad. Sad. Version of Amy Schumer. Gwar has decapitated presidents, political figures, children, and we have never apologized for it once.
BC: We don’t even know what that means. We can’t do wrong, we are deities.
PM: We didn’t apologize for Jon Benet Ramsey’s rape, so we’re not going to for a president.

Empire: You guys have a new album coming out soon, will there be any songs that Oderus wrote on it?
PM: It’s got 12 songs that Oderus didn’t write, because according to the internet Oderus wrote all of Gwars music.Drums, Guitars all of it. So this is a brand new endeavor. To hear what we sound like when we’re half dry. I blacked out halfway in, so it’s probualy going to be pretty cool.
BC: It doesn’t take us any effort to write music, we invented music. We just wake up and shit out music, it’s no big deal.

Empire: Is Gwar doing the AV club again this year?
BC: Yes unfortunately, but I have no idea what we are doing so don’t ask.
PM: Let’s do a song by a band with skinny dudes who wear really long shirts and roll the cuff of there jeans over the ankle. That seems to be great music.
BC: I want to do that Dolly Parton song.
Empire: Which one would you do?
BC: 9-5

Empire: Does Gwar plan on destroying the Earth before Trump can do it?
BC: We don’t plan. I think it’s going to be an accident. Oops I destroyed the whole world.. sorry. But we don’t apologize. So sorry not sorry.

Empire: Have you ever crossed intergalactic paths with Valient Thorr since they are from Venus?
BC: They ain’t from Venus (laughs) ya we crossed paths once or twice.

Empire: If you can bring back any metal band that’s been dead, who would it be?
PM: The Ramones, because metal is fucking stupid.
BC: I second that. I would kill marky since he’s not dead yet.

And just like that I happened to sneak out of the room before they noticed me so that I can another day. When GWAR was ready to destroy the fans on the Mutant South Stage the hordes and hordes of fans lined up willing to be drenched in the blood of those that GWAR will sacrifice on the stage tonight.

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Ron has keen eye for new talent, a love for the underground, and a tremendous passion for music of any genera. You’ll probably bump into him at a horror convention or some seedy club checking out the next need-to-know band.

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INTERVIEW WITH OF VIRTUE

Published

2 months ago

March 4, 2024

Ron

Where does the band name come from? Wanting to be the best version of yourself at all times. The name is a reminder to hold ourselves accountable.

How is the music scene in Michigan? The Michigan music scene has always been vibrant and in my opinion, important. Do we get the credit we deserve? Absolutely not. But for the state that brought you Motown, Eminem, Lizzo, The White Stripes, I Prevail and so many other incredible artists – it’s kind of hard to believe that Michigan remains a hidden gem.

How’s the reception from the fans of the latest album “Omen”? It’s been incredible. From seeing people singing along at shows to us seeing new supporters of all different ages, colors, and creeds joining the journey. Omen has been a pivotal album in our career and we’re proud of it!

If you could tour with 2 bands, which bands would you want to tour with? Spiritbox and Bad Omens. They’re both making waves, changing who the metal audience is, and surely they’d be fun to hang around with.

Where do you draw inspiration for the lyrics? Honestly, the lyrics are our stories. The stories of our struggles, our trials and our tribulations.

What’s been your favorite tour or show? We just got off of a tour with our labelmates, Any Given Day. They treated us to a handful of sold out shows over in Europe, which at this point we call our second home. Those were great shows, but any show we’ve done in Europe is typically one for the books!

If you could bring back a dead musician, who would it be? Prince for sure. An incredible musician I would love an opportunity to chat or make music with!

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INTERVIEW WITH TWIN TEMPLE

Published

2 months ago

February 16, 2024

Ron

Being Married and being in a band together. Do you feel that makes it easier or harder?

We love to do the Devil’s work together so for us its a match made in hell.

What’s your favorite horror movie?

That’s hard to narrow down but the first few that come to mind are Rosemary’s Baby, The Devil Rides Out, Wickerman, The Devils Reign featuring Anton Lavey, Mario Bava’s Black Sunday, anything starring Vincent Price. We also got to see an advance screen of “Late Night with the Devil” featuring a very evil performance from our friend Dave Dastmalchian. We’re also looking forward to Bryan Fuller’s “Dust Bunny” and are positive it will be a new favorite. The list goes on…..we are huge horror fans.

Favorite Non Horror Movie?

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (which is horror/noir adjacent) and The Burbs (also horror adjacent…haha.)

All of Quentin Tarantino’s films- our latest favorite is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, because 1960’s LA…

What misconception of Satanists would you like to educate people on?

We’re not here to proselytize, force our beliefs on people, or educate people on them Selves, Satanism or anything else. If people are interested in exploring Satanism, we encourage them to do their research and question everything.

If you could bring back any dead musician, who would you pick and why?

We would have loved to do a song with Ronnie Spector who recently passed. Also would have been amazing to collaborate with Jack Nitzsche who arranged so many amazing songs.

If you could tour with any 2 bands, who would you want to tour with?

The Ronnettes & The Shangri-Las.

What has been your Favorite Tour so far?

The God is Dead Tour that we’re currently on is definitely the most evil and blasphemous tour yet. We find it very pleasurable to be able to continue expanding the rituals and seeing our nightmares come true on stage.

You were on “Dragula” with the Boulet Brothers, how was that experience?

It was a fiendish delight to collaborate with some of our fav monsters.

What was it like Touring with Danzig?

Another nightmare come true! We’ve both been fans for a long time and we’re obviously inspired by the wicked world Glenn has conjured. So to get to spend time with him and watch him live every night and to now call him a friend is completely surreal. He’s a legend— but was also one of the coolest, kindest, most unholy people we’ve had the carnal pleasure of touring with.

How’s the reception of the last album “God is Dead”?

Personally, we love the record and are very proud of what we’ve accomplished. As far as other peoples’ reactions…. we don’t know and don’t care! We pleasured ourselves and that’s what matters most.

What got you interested in the style of music you play? And how would describe your music?

We’ve always loved classic American music from jazz to blues to country to rock and roll and so on. We also love the pageantry of heavy metal and theatre. So for us it was a very organic culmination of our obsessions. Rock and roll has always been the devils music.

Have you visited the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts?

No we have not but Lucien did attend one of our rituals so we had a chance to share where we get our babies blood and all things Satan.

Have you had any bad encounters at shows because of the misconception of satanism?

No! We purposefully foster a live show environment where all are welcome, all should come being the most important person in the world which is themselves, whatever that may be. Even Christians! We believe music is meant to bring joy, transcendence… We just want to share the things we love; pink, rhinestones, big hair, great rock ’n’ roll, Satanic ritual, you know… but we have had churches assemble outside our shows, screaming through distorted PA speakers that God is not dead & wishing us all a “terrible time”. Why would their God not want us to have fun? This kind of behavior is only makes us more proud to be who we are and do what we love.