Metal Anarchy

As previously reported, GWAR faced backlash from MAGA influencers after “sacrificing” Donald Trump and Elon Musk onstage at last year’s Riot Fest in Chicago, IL. The ridiculous complaints claim the “killings” were “normalizing violence” despite the band’s long history of farcical “assassinations.” The band previously addressed the controversy and have since commented further. Guitarist Mike Derks told The Guardian the following about the situation:

“In a sense, it’s just laughable, but it was scary when we were getting death threats over social media. It did get me very upset when people were trying to say: ‘Oh, you can’t do that.’ This is the country where we’re supposed to be able to do that! People were saying we can’t do it after we’d been doing it for 40 years.”