This Toilet Earth
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This Toilet Earth is the fourth album released by novelty rock/heavy metal/punk band GWAR. Released in 1994, this album was to be one of their oddest and most bittersweet albums. It was the first GWAR album to be censored, due to their gain in popularity as a result of MTV exposure. The music and artwork is almost cartoonish when compared to the previous albums, and the instrumentation has expanded to include horns (in the opener, "Saddam a Go-Go") that reinforce the goofiness.
Storywise, the enemy is now Skulhedface, an alien queen who was deformed in a Synnite Warrior raid on her planet centuries before. In retaliation, she travels to Antarctica, encounters GWAR while they are hibernating, and steals their Jizmoglobin, or life force. Her midget slave Flopsy and she then create a creature made up of the melded parts of evil historical figures (such as Hitler) called the Flesh Column. Skulhedface disguises herself as an evil executive for the Glomco corporation, and uses propaganda to turn GWAR into sickeningly cuddly cartoon characters. Meanwhile, GWAR discovers that the World Maggot is their only opportunity to escape Earth, but Skullhedface stands in their way. Oderus & Co. must regain their Jizz and catch the maggot in time. Both the movie Skulhedface and the album feature the voice of Scott Krahl as Skulhedface (Krahl played Gor-Gor in the tour prior to this album). Krahl also played the World Maggot on this tour and movie.
As for the music, it is varied and ranges from poppy ("Jack the World") to gruesome ("Sonderkommando") to goofy ("Pepperoni") and to the unmentionable ("B.D.F."). Because of B.D.F.'s comically vulgar and extremely graphic references to obscene acts that run the gamut from sodomy, necrophilia, pre-natal rape, pedophilia to mutilation. Due to this controversy, GWAR was forced to release the initial pressing of the CD through Priority Records. The song was removed from subsequent pressings of the CD through Metal Blade Records.
This Toilet Earth is GWAR's first album with Peter Lee as Flattus Maximus. Lee would be shot in a carjacking not too long after the album was finished. As a result, he was out of commission for the beginning of the tour, and most of Skulhedface's filming. He did film one segment with Dave Brockie, however, that started the band X-Cops (Lee jokingly asked Brockie, both dressed as policemen, "What would be cooler than a bunch of cops playing kick-ass rock n' roll?").
It is also the last album with Michael Bishop as an actual full-time member of the band. Bishop, who played Beefcake the Mighty, left the band in 1994. He would be replaced by Casey Orr, and then would return for the brief touring preceding, and the recording of, We Kill Everything.
The album is a blend of chaotic styles that is reminiscent of Faith No More and Frank Zappa. Skulhedface was the movie released to document this album. "Jack the World" was also featured in the Beavis and Butt-head video game for the Sega Genesis.
Track listing
- "Saddam a Go-Go" - 2:30
- "Penis I See" - 2:55
- "Eat Steel" - 1:28
- "Jack the World" - 2:24
- "Sonderkommando" - 4:54
- "Bad Bad Men" - 3:08
- "Pepperoni" - 1:41
- "Insidious Soliloquy of Skulhedface" - 5:16
- "B.D.F." - 2:23
- "Fight" - 0:56
- "Issue of Tissue (Spacecake)" - 3:10
- "Pocket Pool" - 2:27
- "Slap U Around" - 2:39
- "Krak Down" - 3:22
- "Filthy Flow" - 2:14
- "Obliteration of Flab Quarv 7" - 2:14
| GWAR |
| Oderus Urungus | Flattus Maximus | Beefcake the Mighty | Jizmak Da Gusha | Balsac the Jaws of Death |
| Slymenstra Hymen | Nippleus Erectus |
| Albums: Hell-O | Scumdogs of the Universe | America Must Be Destroyed | This Toilet Earth | RagNaRok | Carnival of Chaos | We Kill Everything | Violence Has Arrived | War Party | Beyond Hell |
| Independent releases: Slaves Going Single | You're All Worthless And Weak | Let There Be GWAR |
| Other releases: The Road Behind | Hate Love Songs/Penguin Attack 7" | Live from Mt. Fuji |
| Related articles |
| ''GWAR videography | Dave Brockie Experience | Death Piggy | X-Cops |
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