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GWAR returned in 1999 with their seventh album We Kill Everything, which annihilated the hopes of fans with its limp attempts as compared to their prior albums. This a whimsical album full of punkish potboilers, taking a note from Primus in its surrealistic goofiness. As detailed within the liner notes, GWAR meets a new alien warrior, fellow Scumdog Scroda Moon (Hunter Jackson), who has to find the pieces of a tablet (broken by GWAR for reasons left unclear on the album) which, when put together, will allow them access to a Portal Potty (or a giant, magical toilet) that can warp them off Earth for good. This isn't the same creativity that had been seen in GWAR's previous mythos, more like some deflated Indiana-Jones-meets-the-muppets concoction. The band once again offers the funny ("Fishfuck") the gross ("Babyraper"), and the weird ("Penile Drip", in which Oderus does his best Brak impression). Mike Derks lends his vocals to the almost sensitive ballad, "Mary Anne". This album is mostly a collection of gruesomely faulty jokes ("Fucking an Animal" and "Nitro Burning Funny Bong"), and contains significantly less brutality and heart than their previous works. "Short History of the End of the World [Pt. VII (The Final Chapter)]" is the first (and, to date, only) true GWAR instrumental (the title track off of America Must Be Destroyed is a collection of samples over an instrumental track, and "Surf of Syn" on RagNaRok has Cardinal Syn's voice in the background), and showcases the musical capabilities of the band collective.

The lyrical content of We Kill Everything is in response to angry fans' complaints about the disgusting lyrics on Carnival of Chaos (or lack thereof). It is also the final GWAR album featuring Michael Bishop, who returned for a few months to replace Casey Orr as Beefcake the Mighty, Hunter Jackson (who would stay with the group until the end of 2000), Danielle Stampe (who toured until 2002), and Dave Musel on keyboards and samples. Bishop also brought along Tim Harriss, both of Kepone, to play Flattus Maximus. We Kill Everything is also the last album in the "Scumdogs" storyline (though "The Song Of Words" on Violence Has Arrived makes a reference to it).

Some of the songs are themselves as old as Scumdogs of the Universe, and at least two are remakes of older songs ("A Short History of the End of the World" being a remake of the "Cardinal Syn Theme" from 1989, and "Escape From The Mooselodge" a remake of "The Needle," which featured BalSac the Jaws of Death on vocals for the first time with GWAR; the former can be heard in the video "It's Sleazy," and the latter on Slaves Going Single). The song "Tune From Da Moon" is also in fact a re-make of the Death Piggy song "Minute 2 Live", with all new lyrics.

The lyrics printed in the liner notes are not exactly the same as the lyrics in the songs themselves. Examples of such include, from "Child"

What she's really gonna get is a claw to the cunt

The correct lyric should be:

What she's really gonna get is a KICK in the cunt.

And from "Jiggle The Handle:"

Now that I can use you, I'm gonna stop fucking around.

Should be:

Now I know that I can use you; I'm gonna stop fucking around.

This is the first GWAR album not to feature Beefcake The Mighty on lead vocals since 1988, and Violence Has Arrived would continue that trend. "Jiggle The Handle" is the only song to feature Beefcake, as well as every other vocalist on the album, save one - Balsac the Jaws of Death. It also has the distinction of being the GWAR song with the most vocalists actually singing - five (Scroda Moon, Portal Potty, Oderus, Beefcake and Slymenstra). It is tied with RagNaRok for having the most vocalists (six - Jackson, Brockie, Stampe, Derks, Bishop and either Scott Krahl, Matt Maguire or Bob Gorman; they do not say who the toilet's voice is). There are seven distinct characters on the album: the six aforementioned, as well as a narrator on "Escape From The Mooselodge," voiced by Dave Brockie (the song features him as the narrator and as Oderus).

The title track is one of the two longest songs written by the band (Carnival of Chaos' "Sammy," at 6:57, like "We Kill Everything," is the other).

Like all of GWAR's albums, We Kill Everything spawned a movie: 2001's It's Sleazy. Featured in this film is one of two music videos for the album: "Nitro Burnin' Funny Bong." In the 2002 "Ultimate Video GWARchive" music video collection, Brockie states in the commentary for this video his disdain for this song, and most of the output from the time period of 1997-2000. The second video, "Fuckin' An Animal," was recorded well before "It's Sleazy," and was not in the movie. It is available, albeit censored, in the "Ultimate Video GWARchive." It marks the first appearance of Zach Blair as Flattus Maximus, as well as the final appearance of Flattus' tail.

The members of GWAR don't really like to talk about We Kill Everything (a recent news post on their website confirms this: "...and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief that we hadn’t put out another “We Kill Everything”, no matter how much they might have enjoyed having sex with animals!"), and they rarely play more than one or two songs (usually just "Babyraper") from the album since the GWARmageddon 1999 tour. This could be due either to their dislike of the album, or by the fact that most of the songs deal with a specific concept or have a former member, and are unable to be played (though in soundcheck before their concerts, they do play "Short History of the End of the World"). Brockie (Oderus Urungus) particularly dislikes the song "Nitro Burnin' Funny Bong," which he describes as "extremely annoying," along with the entire "It's Sleazy" video.

Track listing

"Babyraper" - 2:35
"Fishfuck" - 1:45
"The Performer" - 3:23
"A Short History of the End of the World (Part VII (The Final Chapter (Abbr.)))" - 3:27
"Escape from the Mooselodge" - 5:24
"Tune from da Moon" - 2:26
"Jiggle the Handle" - 5:28
"Nitro Burnin' Funny Bong" - 3:27
"Jagermonsta" - 2:50
"My Girly Ways" - 2:59
"The Master Has a Butt" - 4:05
"We Kill Everything" - 6:57
"Child" - 2:50
"Penile Drip" - 2:38
"Mary Anne" - 2:42
"Friend" - 1:17
"Fuckin' an Animal" - 3:08


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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