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next up, Battle Maximus, the last one with Oderus.
This album has Brent Purgason of Cannabis Corpse, so the musicianship is like 3000000 times higher than any of the old Gwar albums. It feels like a traditional heavy metal/power metal album, still with the same ridiculous lyrics and themes, but the music is actually high quality!
Oderus essentially has completed the transformation to alien Gene Simmons by this album, and his vocals are treated quite a bit. The guitars are unmistakably Cannabis Corpse-y through a power metal/thrash/heavy metal lens.
Old GWAR doesn't really make you wanna head-bang (except a lot of America Must Be Destroyed), but there's outright pit-esque riffs here, and blazing solos and all. the songs are catchy as fuck, Oderus is still singing the inane shit he always does.
Only downside to me is its missing some of the amateurish, genre-hopping goofiness I loved about the classic-era, and it's 51 minutes (about 11 more than I'd like a GWAR album to be), but...this shit fuckin' slays!
Grade...A-?
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