GWAR's Oderus Urungus Interview Transcript.

Dale, host of the Hard Fast and Heavy show calls Oderus Urungus from the band GWAR, on the 26th October 2010 about many things, including their appearance at No Sleep til Auckland. Aired on the show on the 1st of November 2010.

ODERUS: Hello!
DALE: Hi, this is Dale speaking from New Zealand, am I speaking to... the ... man from GWAR?
ODERUS: Yes, yes, you're talking to Oderus from GWAR.

DALE: Oderus from GWAR, so how has your time with GWAR been?
ODERUS: Well right now we're engaged in a... act of assault against the population of the planet Earth through our musical, metallic, mutated, mayhem, metal horror show! Our new album is out next month! The Bloody Pit of Horror! We're currently on tour in the United States, getting ready for that cataclysmic event, and getting ready to come to New Zealand and Australia for the very first time and expose the peoples of your fair countries To... The... Sickest.. Band... In Rock n Roll History!

DALE: Excellent, now: you're in Ohio at the moment and tomorrow you're gonna be in East St Louis, I'm assuming the states is a big place, so it must help being a war-mongering space alien with all the travel you have to do?
ODERUS: Oh no, we enjoy it. Allot of people don't realise the human cities are linked with sub-terrainian tunnels that honey comb your planet, and there's often a very convenient, kind of, like, little jet cars you can drive around on. So, we've got a whole system underneath the planet where we just kind of pop up from various cave entrances, right before we play. Doesn't seem like a lot of time goes by.

DALE: Sweet, so coming to New Zealand isn't gonna be a problem then?
ODERUS: Not at all, and it's just, uh... it's really all we've ever done with our lives, is go from one place to another, you know, set up our war camp, begin our savage sounds, draw in the humans, slaughter them, fight giant robots, and finally feed our pet dinosaur Gor-gor. So everything is going to be wonderful, we'll just have to see what happens when we get to New Zealand: there's always some super-powered A-Hole trying to shut the party down, that we have to deliver some swift kicks to the ass.

DALE: Hell yeah, now recently you were Grand Marshall at the Toronto zombie walk & awarded Harvard Lampoon's Most Terrible vile disgusting disturbed yet revoltingly awesome band ever: such things must be quite the ego rush for you..
ODERUS: No, not really. I see them as completely meaningless accolades, bestowed upon us by a retarded child, and that would be the human race, that we created by fucking apes- I might remind you of that. So, uh, pitiful attempts to assuage our boundless wrath and, you know, if they think you're gonna get off any easier because of these awards they keep heaping on us, they are completely wrong.

DALE: Now as you mentioned, you have "Bloody Pit of Horror" coming out soon, and I personally couldn't get enough of "Beyond Hell" and thought "Lust in Space" was pretty cool, do you think I'm gonna enjoy your new album?
ODERUS: Yes I do, I think people are really gonna enjoy it, like all GWAR albums it sounds completely different to the one before it, but it's heavy as hell and even tuned down and very extra nasty to the point where it literally sounds like the guitars are throwing up- in a good way. But anyway, it's a throbbing pulsating kinda sound, it's a very dirty, very nasty sound. I think people are really gonna enjoy it.

DALE: What is the process of putting together a GWAR album? I imagine it being rather sticky and involving more than a few human sacrifices...
ODERUS: Well, it's very violent. You know, a lot of fighting and arguments, breaking of equipment over peoples heads, and stuff like that. But at the end of the day we've got our metal, you know we just get in there and yell and scream at each other and they record that and they make music out of it. I'm not sure what the hell it is, I just know we get there in front of the people, plug those guitars in and everything goes crazy!

DALE: Awesome, you're coming to New Zealand on a big tour package that's headlined by Megadeth, is there anything, mudslinging you can say about him, Dave Mustaine?
ODERUS: I haven't met him yet, so I'm not going to talk shit about him until i have the chance to observe his habitat. Actually, I have to admit I'm actually quite a big Megadeth fan and I'm really looking forward to seeing him play on this tour, so I'm gonna save my mudslinging for Rob Zombie and Lordi.

DALE: Excellent, generic question here, but are you looking forward to slaying a Kiwi crowd?
ODERUS: Yes, we fully expect kiwis to taste different, we've heard you're 9 feet tall, that should be interesting. You know, it's a new eco-system to destroy and hopefully the entire island.

DALE: I understand you were trapped in a frozen tomb down in Antarctica, given New Zealands close proximity to your former prison, is that a reason why you haven't been here before?
ODERUS: Well, we went straight from Antarctica to America, we were flown there by our manager Sleazy P. Martini, we've been living there pretty much ever since. We tried to get to New Zealand a few times, but we simply got lost- it wasn't until Google Earth that we managed to figure out this world geography, kinda thing. So, after 25 years of searching we've finally gonna make it.

DALE: Excellent, Now we are the land of the "Lord of the Rings" has or will your tour manager try and steer you away from partying, or slaying too many Orcs?
ODERUS: Actually, you know, we were hoping to face-rape some Hobbits. That's just kind of a tradition in the GWAR camp, is to take Hobbits and rape their faces off, fill those chubby little cheeks with our filthy man-prods, rooting about in retched abandonment and just chewing these Hobbits faces off. Few creatures deserve death more than those little fuzzy footed fucks.

DALE: So I take it, you're not a fan of Elijah Wood?
ODERUS: Oh... Oh he's such a... No i Don't Like Him At All!

DALE: (laughs) I noticed your shows integrate quite a few elements [i.e political], not just the crazy metal thing, in a country, you're heading to New Zealand were we've have 2 female leaders, Rastafarian, gay and trans-gender members of parliament [i.e different to the United States] is that something GWAR could work with?
ODERUS: Oh.. I salute the people of New Zealand for having trans-gender council members I encourage them to have more trans-animal, kinda necrophiliac, bestial activity. Making our animal friends happy, by giving them public sex in government buildings. Animals are often made to live out-doors, in little sticks, like little houses made of sticks and stuff, it's terribly unfair, and, uh, dogs do appreciate it when you suck them off. I'd like to see more of that for the people of New Zealand and hopefully after our show we will bring this to you people, the gift of necrophiliac, anal, bestial, dead dog sex.

DALE: I don't suppose you've heard the sheep shagging jokes, down here?
ODERUS: Oh, we heard all about it, and we're hoping it's true.

DALE: I noticed you seem to have quite a sense of occasion, I'm referring to your appearances on Fox news as compared to a youtube video interview I saw with you swearing your mouth off.
ODERUS:Well, they do give me tranquilisers before I appear on the air and they throw a big metal canvas kind of chain mail blanket over the Cuttlefish of Cthulu. So yes they've managed to knock me down a peg or two, but quite frankly the drugs and the sex and the power that I get from appearing on Fox news, and the parties later with Bill O'Reily, CIA opperatives Osama binladen, it more than makes up for it. They're pretty much gonna to cut out whatever I say that doesn't work for them anyway, so I just try... I play my mental.. i play my little game with them, you know. I think I get away with some pretty edgy shit, but you will notice I am the most foul mouthed person on the show and huge sections of my appearences are usually silent.

DALE: Well there's no such editing on this show, you can say whatever you want...
ODERUS: I like that, and it makes me much more comfortable.

DALE: I imagine setting up a gig must be quite the ~Ziltoidian~ effort, no?
ODERUS: Well no, we wear these clothes all the time, in fact they're not clothes so much as our birthday suits, born in them even, as it were. I've never washed or cleaned myself, so that makes everything stick to my body in great rancid heaps, so uh, it's how we roll, it smells really bad but the fans love us.

DALE: Now, you mentioned Gor-gor, he's coming to New Zealand, am I right?
ODERUS: I'm not... oh, oh, oh don't lock me down to that because I do believe he'll be showing up in Australia, I don't know if he'll make the swim out to kiwi-land or not.

DALE: Now a few years ago you worked with Devin Townsend, how do you get along with his Ziltoid?
ODERUS: We never met him exactly, he was up zipping around in his interstella space craft! whatever the fuck it was! No, we just dealt with Devin and really that was more than enough

In GWAR news...

As the awesome news of the no sleep til Auckland set times being released hit us last night- GWAR have announce (via facebook) that their pet dinosaur Gor-Gor "has arrived in Perth, Australia, to prepare for the coming of GWAR!"

To the casual observer this news might not bare the same oomph, but to realise the full force of GWAR is unable to be present in New Zealand deflates my massive enthusiasm to see the band, for a second.

This is, of course, just confirmation of what Oderus Urungus told me during my interview with him a few weeks ago, he suggested Gor-Gor might not make the swim to NZ. Confusing, because the band apparently used a network of underground tunnels to move from show to show.
To quote Oderus, from my interview:
"...the human cities are linked with sub-terrianian tunnels, that honey-comb your planet and there's often very convenient kind of jet cars you can drive around on..." This begs the question Why Gor-Gor couldn't make it to NZ, maybe he's too big for the tunnels, or a bit claustrophobic, who knows...

To be Fair, this is what Oderus had to say
DALE: "Gor-Gor's coming to New Zealand, am I right?"
ODERUS: "I'm not... oh, oh, oh don't lock me down to that because I do believe he'll be showing up in Australia, I don't know if he'll make the swim out to kiwi-land or not."

Here's a recent shot of Gwar I found on the internet.

Timetable for No Sleep til Auckland released

After a tense Friday afternoon, where there was an announcement that the timetable would be released on Friday, it happen to come out just after I walk out the bar to go check out Darklight Corporation, Just One Fix Mutangent and Tainted at the Dogs Bollix.

Don't bother trying to organise your day by what times to be where- there are no clashes as there are two stages, so- like the BDO arrangement, as one band plays, the next band is setting up on the other stage- this means constant music from 12.20 to 10pm!

Fornax chemica opening for the Melvins

While the Dunedin and Wellington supports have been finalised (Dunedin- Mountaineater, Soulseller. Welly- Beastwars, Neon Bastard)
The Auckland & Chch supports have yet to be announced, but on the bands facebook page, Fornax Chemica have stated they're supporting the melvins, probably in Auckland, but could also be in chch as well- who erally knows (And I'm not feeling up to trawling through the various forums where the answer might just been hiding)

My new Gig shirt: mobile- self-shameless- plug

Did anyone else have the problem of not having many/any metal shirts etc when you started to go out to metal shows?
I remember back in the day, all I had for ages was a solitary Sepultura shirt that I managed to get from Real Groovy or something. I wore it out to any and all gigs I went to, because I figured as a relatively wide genre spanning band (i.e. starting as death metal) it was a safe bet.

So, with this new 'dot com' site I have running now, I got a shirt (cheaply) printed up and it shall now serve as my gig shirt.

Timetable for No Sleep til Auckland released Friday.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153370468008487
If my keen deductionary skills are correct in telling me: the timetable for the big Megadeth headlined gig will be out on friday (26th Nov.)

Hardly news, but if you haven't already- check out the facebook events page for it: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153370468008487

I'm very much looking forward to GWAR, despite the fact that I know they'll play a set consisting of songs from throughout their long 25 year career and I'm only really digging the songs off the 3 latest albums, that I actually have (Beyond Hell, Lust in Space, Bloody Pit of Horror)

Playlist for 22 November 2010

GWAR- You Are my Meat (GWAR are coming to NZ Dec 10th for No Sleep til Auckland, and have a new album out, "Bloody pit of horror", which is getting good reviews from me and my ears & is available in music stores- 'cos I saw a copy in one..)
ROB ZOMBIE- Sick Bubblegum (Rob Zombie side-shows to Soundwave in Melbourne announce recently have served nothing more than to provoke my jealousy of all those who will witness him live)
3 INCHES OF BLOOD- Rock in Hell (These guys are also coming to NZ for No Sleep, and when I talked to guitarist Shane Clark, he pretty much confirmed that if the band gets an awesome response at No Sleep, they'll be keen to come back for their own headlining tour)
ENGEL- Feed the Weak (New album "Threnody")
GOD DETHRONED- Under the Sign of the Southern Cross (Album titled song from the new album)
THE SIGN OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS- The South is Rising
SODOM- In War and Pieces (Album titled song from the new album)
UNDEROATH- Catch Myself Catching Myself (new Album "Disambiguation")
THE OCEAN- She was the Universe (New album, "Anthropocentric")
A DAY TO REMEMBER- You be Tails, I'll be Sonic (New album, "What Separates Me from You")
ATHIEST- Tortoise the Titan (New Album, "Juptier")
ARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLS- To Playact in Static
PARKWAY DRIVE- Sleepwalkers (Catch these guys (again) at No Sleep til Auckland, Dec 10th)
DEATHSPELL OMEGA- Wings of Predation (New album, "Paracletus")
BLEEDING THROUGH- Your Abandonment
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE- Pazuzu for the Win
HIGH ON FIRE- Snakes of the Divine (Coming to NZ with The Melvins in 2011; Feb 19th @ Kings Arms; 20th Feb in Dunedin; 21st Feb in Chch; 22nd Feb in Wellington)
BEHEMOTH- Demigod
KATAKLYSM- Numb and Intoxicated
SUICIDE SILENCE- Suffer
THE AUTUMN OFFERING- Death Mask

Consolidating and expanding my stings

Over this last weekend, I've been hunting down old radio-stings (i.e "I'm >band member< from >band< and you're listening to the hard fast & heavy show" that kinda thing) from the many interviews I've conducted over the years, with the intention of creating my own sting-bank.

It's not as simple a task as it may sound, original (digital) versions of many are long gone, several CD  versions (i use to play on air) are all over the place, if not lost. And in some cases all I have is the raw version- straight from the phone line.

With all the glorious interviews I done in recent times, especially those stemming from the no sleep tour, I want to have a defined place for all these stings- so you, our audience, won't forget I talked to Oderus from GWAR, or Slayers front man etc..

But I'll also be looking to expand this 'sting-bank' especially with local bands- so if you're a kiwi band that gets air time on my show but don't seem to have a sting with me- get in touch, or I might get hold of you, for 15-20 minutes of one-on-one chatting over the phone lines (recorded for radio, or course..)

Interview with Jesse Leach (ex-KSE, Times of Grace)

A few days ago I had a phone interview with former Killswitch Engage, now current Times of Grace vocalist, Jesse Leach. It went well and he (as with everyone I talk to) was awesome. I had to rush back to my day-job as soon as the interview was done, which is why this post is coming now & not straight afterwards.

On the next show I'll be playing my interview with Mitch, Vocalist for Suicide Silence, the Jesse Leach interview will be aired on the show after that..

btw, Jesse's the one with the beard & hat.

Playlist for 15th Novemeber 2010: 3 inches of Blood interview played.

Playlist for 15^th November 2010: Shane Clark of 3 inches of Blood interview played
GRAVEWORM- I Need a Hero
MISS MAY I- Swing BAK- Pay
THE BROWNING- These Nightmares
TURMION KÄTILÖT- Verta Ja Lihaa
5 STAR GRAVE- Pet Sematary
LAMB OF GOD- Dead Seeds (request)
3 INCHES OF BLOOD- Destroy the Orcs
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE- Numbered Days
CRADLE OF FILTH- Forgive Me Father (I Have Sinned)
ZIMMERS HOLE- Hair Doesn`t Grow On Steel
TIMES OF GRACE- Strength In Numbers
3 INCHES OF BLOOD- Cities On Flame With Rock and Roll
BRING ME THE HORIZON- Anthem
RAZORWYRE- Suspiria
DAATH- Indestructible Overdose
WITHIN THE RUINS- Versus
WE CAME AS ROMANS- Broken Statues
THEM MARTYRS- Laying Still
YOUR DEMISE- Miles Away
DEATH BREATH- Lycanthropy

Gig update

Remember that gig I posted about, regarding an Auckland show with Dissolution & Exordium Mors: http://www.hardfastheavy.com/2010/11/dissolution-in-auckland-early-2011.html

Well...
It is now Hellstorm of Fire and Chaos: Presented by Chaos NZ
featuring Dissolution, Exordium Mors, Nullifier, Winter Deluge, Burning Solitude.
All at the Kings Arms, Jan 14th 2011
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102940663111670

Does this finalization of the details of the gig tell me I shouldn't jump the gun and post sh^t as it comes across on facebook etc... nah, screw that...

Whammy bar gig Dec 16th

Playlist for the last hfhshow is coming, I'll put it up soon- but till then here's a gig to go to; with a band that sent their EP up to the show and I liked it: Oilbarrons.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177769142235404
"Yellow Kayak presents: Another awesome Thursday night out.
A Heavy Whammy Xmas details on the poster as follows

Mothra featured on international website

Progressive, rock/metal instrumental 3 piece, Mothra, who've opened for the Devin Townsend band & have featured on the hfhshow, feature on a Germany based promotions website.
http://www.trendxl.de/mothra-prog-rock-new-zealand

December 17th, Rising Sun.

Here's the poster for the gig, who's title sounds like a mash of movies names ;p

November Metal Hammer

I just managed to pick up the November issue of Metal Hammer, I don't normally buy magazines, and when I do I go for Terroriser mag.
However, the November issue of Metal Hammer has a Dimmu Borgir Badge & beanie, a talking opening cover that says "Unlock and open the gates HAHAHA" i don't fully understand why this is, a) funny and, Secondly- scary (as the hype on the front cover would suggest)