GWAR will release their 13th studio album, Battle Maximus, on September 17 via Metal Blade Records.
The album is the first they have recorded since the death of Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus, on November 3, 2011. Smoot had been in the band since 2002 and had appeared on four of the group’s albums, War Party, Beyond Hell, Lust in Space and Bloody Pit of Horror.
After a year with only one guitarist, GWAR brought in Brent Purgason, of Cannabis Corpse, in the guise of Pustulus Maximus. Also new for this album is bassist Jamison Land as Beefcake the Mighty.
The band announced the album by saying:
Battle Maximus was conceived and recorded over the last year at the bands self-operated Slave Pit Studios, and was mixed by veteran metal producer Glen Robinson and mastered by the matchless Howie Weinberg. It features twelve brand-new tracks of sonic sedition guaranteed to make even the most hardened GWAR fans head explode, merely by looking at the packaging. With songs like Madness at the Core of Time, Torture, and They Swallowed the Sun, the album not only tells the next chapter in the never-ending story of GWAR, but also stands as a tribute to the band’s long-time guitar player, the incomparable Flattus Maximus, who left Earth and returned to the cosmos to fulfill his glorious destiny almost two years ago.
Rather than attempt to emulate the un-matchable sound of Flattus, who had led the band from the depths of clown-rock to the elite tier of top-notch metal acts with a series of bone-crushing recordings starting with 2000’s Violence Has Arrived, Oderus and company struck out in a bold new direction. Enlisting the aid of Pustulus Maximus, cousin of Flattus, who wrested the right to join forces with GWAR after waging the epic Battle Maximus, GWAR has created one of their most awe-inspiring albums to date, one that is sure to join the ranks of Scumdogs of the Universe and Lust in Space, as the ultimate expressions of GWAR’s contempt for modern society and the hypocrisy and horror of a world gone mad.
Get ready, human scum…GWAR is coming…all over your face!
Track List:
Intro
Madness at the Core of Time
Bloodbath
Nothing Left Alive
They Swallowed the Sun
Torture
Raped at Birth
I, Bonesnapper
Mr. Perfect
Battle Maximus
Triumph of the Pig Children
Falling
Fly Now
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