Review:
It's amazing that when a band can reinvent their career 13 years after their debut album. GWAR has done exactly that. Since their 9th release in 2001 entitled Violence Has Arrived, Antarctica's GWAR has seemed to mature from a stage show with some background music into a full-fledged metal act with lots and lots of blood. Lust In Space is continuing the trend of improving with every release.
Before I continue, I'm a fanboy of all of GWAR's material. Their debut album Hell-O has some classic cuts but the disc is near unlistenable for me. Live the songs sound awesome. I always thought the rest of their albums prior to Violence were pretty solid. Albums like Scumdogs Of The Universe and This Toilet Earth are classics. They experimented a little with their sound and tried to gain some of the old punk influence back with Carnival Of Chaos and We Kill Everything. It was met with mixed reviews but I still dig those two releases. Due to the lack of positive reviews from those two albums it seems that they decided to experience with their other obvious influence in metal. It has been met with generally positive feelings. I can't even count how many times I've heard people talk about how they can finally listen to GWAR because they are playing legitimately good music.
Following Violence Has Arrived, the band brought to us War Party, which was their heaviest release until they followed that up with the Dante's Inferno-esque concept album, Beyond Hell. I was so impressed with those two records I kind of felt that GWAR may have pushed their luck and their next album was bound to be mediocre. Luckily for me, and the rest of GWAR's slaves, Lust In Space keeps the ball rolling. I've only had the opportunity to listen to it a handful of times so far but only second to Beyond Hell, this is their best post 2000 release yet. And to top it all off, it features the return of Casey Orr (aka Beefcake The Mighty) on bass. Who in my opinion was by far the best Beefcake GWAR has ever had.
The only thing that remains constant threw all of GWAR's releases is the lyrical content. Known for their super crude, science fiction lyrics about filth, booze, sex, and violence, this album offers just what you expect. Dave Brockie is an odd man to be able to keep the GWAR universe going for so long. It amazes me with each album we are delivered a set of new characters that will most likely be slaughtered on stage each night. I, for one, am greatly looking forward to their next tour.
This album continues the trend from the last 3 records of solid written heavy metal with Oderus' signature vocals and lyrics of all things odd. If you never gave GWAR a chance because you weren't fond of their earlier material, now is the time to give them a second listen. Lust In Space is the 4th record of this "new" GWAR that has opened them to an even bigger audience than before and seems to impress anyone that gets to listen to them for the first time.
I heard the song they had up on their website and was not drawn to it like I was to songs like "Bring Back The Bomb" and "War Is All We Know." Still excited to hear the whole album, and of course to be killed at their next show.
Hell-o came out 21 years ago. In a recent interview Oderus said the next tour may be your last chance to see Gwar. Who knows how serious he was because he rarely is. I need to hear this album. The only problem I have with new Gwar albums is that less and less of the classics I loved from my middle school and high school years get played.
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