Description
Gwar – Hell-o – Cassette
Gwar is a satirical heavy metal band known for their elaborate costumes, over-the-top stage shows, and humorous and often controversial lyrics. ‘Hell-o’ is their debut studio album, released in 1988. The album features their signature blend of thrash metal and punk rock, combined with theatrical and comedic elements.
While Gwar is really more of a sight gag, its music has always held up its end of the band’s bit, riffing on heavy metal clichés while using those same elements to create serviceable headbanging music.
Musically, the papier-mâché pranksters’ 1988 debut falls somewhere between Black Sabbath and Anthrax. Lyrically, it’s like Ween trapped inside the brain of a 14-year-old kid. Fart jokes, snickering song titles like ‘I’m In Love (With a Dead Dog)’. Plenty of bizarre and/or gory references to sexual perversion, and references to anal caves.
Standouts include ‘Americanized,’ which adds a bit of Crass-style street punk into the band’s sound, the joke-establishing ‘Gwar Theme’ (‘We are Gwar/We’ll go far/We’ve got guitars/We’ll eat your car’) and ‘Techno’s Song,’ which introduces Techno Destructo, a Gwar-hating alien who lives ‘way past Uranus.’ The death ray sound effect cutting through ‘World O Filth”s hardcore thrash is also spectacular.
Brand new, never played but not sealed in the factory plastic seal
Shimmy Disc Records
Original Shimmy Disc pressing, not a re-issue!
Track Listing
1. Time For Death
2. AEIOU
3. Americanized
4. I’m In Love (With A Dead Dog)
5. Slutman City
6. Word O Filth
7. War Toy
8. Captain Crunch
9. Pure As The Arctic Snow
10. Je M’ Appelle J. Cousteau
11. GWAR Theme
12. Bone Meal
13. Ollie North
14. Techno’s Song
15. U Ain’t Shit
16. Rock & Roll Party Town
