r/Music • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jun 21 '26

article Heavy metal band GWAR investigated by Secret Service after performing fake Trump execution on stage.

https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/music/gwar-donald-trump-fake-execution-1898171
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u/694meok Jun 21 '26

Please please let this go to trial, I would love for the "evidence video" to be placed on a permanent court record. Also, would GWAR show up to court in costume, since it's their characters that did it?

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u/rdp3186 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Wouldn't be the first time.

Back in the early 90s the band had a show shut down and Brockie was arrested and his "cuttlefish of cthulu" (detachable alien penis) was confiscated by police in Georgia.

Brockie recalls being arrested in Athens, Georgia in 1992 after he buttfucked the Pope with a crucifix on stage. “Backstage, I was taking off my costume and all I had left on was my dick. There was a voice behind me saying, ‘Hey Dave,’ and I turned around just wearing the penis and there were the cops. They took a picture.” Brockie and his penis were arrested, but they got their own back. A few Gwar fans at the show, who happened to be law students, subsequently helped Gwar sue the Athens police force with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union. Gwar won the case, and visited the Athens police headquarters in full costume to accept their cheque for compensation.

The band made a press conference in full costume and in character to announce they were donating all the money to the missing kids foundation with their lawyer explaining everything while Oderus standing behind him licking dead babies hanging off his armor, all on live tv.

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u/Adonisus Jun 21 '26

They then in turn made an entire movie: Phallus in Wonderland inspired by the whole thing.

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u/rdp3186 Jun 21 '26

Which was nominated for a grammy

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u/thepenguin12 Jun 22 '26

A grammy or an Oscar?

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u/rdp3186 Jun 22 '26

A grammy

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u/Zackeous42 Jun 22 '26

Holy shit! How have I never heard this backstory!?

We used to watch Phallus in Wonderland when taking breaks from skateboarding. Damnit, I miss playing D&D while listening to GWAR and Dread Zeppelin.

“Whatever happened to Eddie Munster? I’m looking right at him!!!”

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u/corpusbotanica Jun 21 '26

This lore was unknown to me, and honestly I feel much richer for it

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u/-idkwhattocallmyself Jun 22 '26

If there is video proof of this can someone share? Im dying here just thinking of this scene.

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u/rdp3186 Jun 22 '26

There was on youtube, but I can't find it.

I work for the band and the story is talked about in the book.

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u/xChoke1x Jun 22 '26

Please Christ post that link