DRT Entertainment Years

== DRT Entertainment Years ==
In June of 2004, Gwar left Metal Blade and signed with DRT Entertainment. The decision to leave Metal Blade came with the label’s perceived lack of faith in the band and lack of album distribution outside the USA, along with the band’s belief that they were funding “shitty bands on the label”. Despite this, the band maintained they had no animosity to Brian Slagel or the label in general. The albums released on this label consisted of War Party, Beyond Hell. The live album, Live From Mt. Fuji, was also released on this label. In 2004, Gwar teamed up with Grey DeLisle (as the voice of Grandma Stuffum) in the Codename: Kids Next Door episode “Operation F. O. O. D. F. I. T. E.”; the band was credited as Rawg and the songs “The Private Pain of Techno Destructo”, “Morality Squad”, and “Gor-Gor” were performed with new lyrics, pertaining to the episode, written for each song. In January of 2006, Gwar opened a gallery show called “The Art of Gwar” at Art Space gallery in Richmond to display the many props, costumes, cartoons, paintings produced by The Slave Pit, Gwar's art and effects studio. The music video was directed by David Brodsky on July 2, 2006. The part of the "school marm" has been mistakenly identified as Devin Townsend, the producer of the Beyond Hell CD. It is actually Scott Krahl, a long-time Gwar “slave” and inventor of Gor-Gor. Gwar performed a special “half-time” show at the Sounds Of The Underground 2006 tour. Gwar went on to headline the following year’s Sounds of the Underground Tour in 2007. Vocalist Oderus Urungus is also featured on the last Strapping Young Lad album The New Black as a guest vocalist on the song “Far Beyond Metal”. Oderus’ lines in the song are taken directly from the Gwar song “Maggots” (“now in the halls of the Necrolord…” etc). Gwar was also present at the third annual Rock & Shock festival from October 13 to 15 as a part of their Beyond Hell tour in 2006.
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