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.” Now, during a recent appearance on Rocking With Jam Man, frontman Mike “Blöthar The Berserker” Bishop further discussed the controversy.

Bishop said the following:

“Probably the biggest [backlash]… All in all, I’m gonna say this, that for years GWAR would do whatever the fuck we wanted. We would kill politicians from both sides of the aisle. We would kill famous people. We never had any backlash. I mean, granted, when we killed Princess Diana, people got a little upset. When we pulled a fish out of Laci Peterson’s pussy, people got a little upset. But until Donald Trump got in office, that’s when people started getting extremely upset about politics and music and politics in art. That marked the moment that suddenly GWAR was… People acted as if GWAR had changed, but GWAR didn’t change. The world fricking changed. The way people felt about politics changed. The way people felt about comedy and humor changed.

Comics like to complain about, ‘Uh, well, college campuses and censoring speech.’ And yeah, it is true. College kids are fricking stupid. There’s no question about it. And being uptight about identity politics is absurd, but we still never got any heat from that segment. It’s not like feminists or the politically correct squad, they didn’t really come after GWAR. Who came after GWAR was fucking Trump fans. That’s who came after GWAR. It was people that once… Suddenly they can see that they’re on the outside of a cultural moment. And it’s a weird thing, man.”

He continued:

“We [fictitiously] killed President Obama. We didn’t hear from the Secret Service. But you [fictitiously] kill Trump, and you better believe that there’s gonna be some shit going on. And that happened to us. It happened to us not too long ago. And the truth of the matter is that people think that you live in America, and you look around the world and you’re, like, ‘Oh, well, we’re free. They’re not.’ That’s bullshit. It’s absolute bullshit. They don’t have to call the police on you. What they have to do is make it hard for you to make money. And that’s what they try to do. And especially a company like Live Nation, which is a big concert company that does shows and stuff like that, they are susceptible to pressure from the government. They need the government to kind of look the other way on some of their bullshit, like antitrust laws and things like that. And when you upset them, they can lean on you, and that is fucking censorship, no matter what you call it. so, we have faced that. GWAR faces it all the time. It’s a real fucking thing.”

He also added the following when asked if the Secret Service have been after GWAR:

“Well, let’s just say that GWAR is on some lists.”

[via Blabbermouth]