GWAR Brings Carnage and Mayhem to Houston’s Warehouse Live

GWAR
Warehouse Live, Houston, TX, October 22, 2018
By Michael Mullenix

Houston was a hotbed of weird on Monday, October 22^nd, when Gwar landed downtown at Warehouse Live for a horrific night of carnage, mayhem, blood, and… Other unsavory bodily fluids of space monsters.  For the uninitiated Gwar is the very graphic and very gruesome collection of creatures from outer space who, according to their lore, formed the world’s greatest rock band after contributing DNA to the primordial ooze and creating the human race, their biggest regret.  Kicking off the show, we find Gwar at their home-base in Antarctica which is currently under siege from CIA Agents. In the middle of the song War On Gwar, the band gets the upper hand on the agents and decapitates them, but not before they set off an atomic bomb, which lays waste to their home.  Before they can get revenge, their manager Dirty P Martini calls and announces he’s sold their rights to the Glomco Corporation who just happen to control the US government.  Gwar spends their set assaulting decency through songs like Death To Dickie Duncan, Crushed By The Cross and Viking Death Machine.  This lasts until the song El Presidente, when their corporate masters, and President Donald Trump, come to chastise them only to be disemboweled by the band instead, handing manager duties back to Dirty P Martini.  Folks, this is the best summation I can give you of a Gwar concert and the narrative they are telling.  Insane to the max, the concert/vaudeville ultimately came to a close on the song Sick Of You when the band revived the age-old People Shredder, and drug up audience members to place in the grinding gears of the shredder, eradicating them with maximum effectiveness.

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Michael Mullenix

Growing up around the world, Michael developed a taste and appreciation for all styles of music. While studying film making at Boston University, he dove headfirst into a mosh-pit and never came out. It was in Boston that he combined his love of film and photography with his drive and passion for being a chronicler of the underground music scene. After graduation he headed to Los Angeles and for over a decade has worked with some of the top musicians and actors in the entertainment industry. Lured to Austin by the cultural explosion in the music and film scenes taking place there, he relocated two years ago and describes Austin as a cultural Shang Ri La!