On Monday night Toronto was conquered and destroyed by the sickest band in the galaxy, GWAR! Bodies were stacked and packed into the Phoenix Concert Theatre where they would be brutalized in the mosh pit and soaked with the blood of their spacelord master’s carnage.
Opening acts Cancer Christ and Toronto’s very own, Blood Opera primed the audience for the forthcoming onslaught. Cancer Christ with its enthusiastic preacher coaxing his serpent-esque ensemble to create a slithery groove for his diatribe. Blood Opera, local purveyors of the horror business, celebrating debauchery by toasting the crowd with a ceremonious Blood Chug!
I’m not sure I was ready for the spectacle that would come next. I’d heard rumours, legends and myths about GWAR but nothing could quite prepare me for the bloody good time that ensued. Sonically slaying and barbarically theatrical, they had me smiling ear to ear all evening. It seemed like every other song a new victim was brought to the stage, chopped and mutilated by the band. Sending blood and bodily fluids raining down on the crowd. In particular, a bumbling, mumbling President Biden lost his head over government policy.
Playing a handful of songs from their latest album The New Dark Ages mixed in among classics spanning the bands catalogue. With lyrics intertwining political satire, scatology and pornography that only these Scumdogs of the Universe could spew. Appropriately, the final song was a cover of AC/DC’s If You Want Blood, You Got and the audience was given a final blood bath.
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