America Must Be Destroyed

America Must Be Destroyed was the third album by GWAR, and the 2nd on Metal Blade Records. Pretty much the entirety of this album was inspired by the North Carolina incident previously talked about before. Brockie was disgusted by the violation of his rights, so in turn he created a concept album revolving around the “Morality Squad”. A group that attacked the members of Gwar ad stole Oderou’s Cuttlefish. Since it’s a concept album, the opening song, “Ham on the Bone” describes the robbery of his Cuttlefish. The story then quickly goes to the bands mighty fortress in Antarctica. Here, Oderous orders his slaves to shoot up a dinosaur egg with crack. The result of doing this is Gor-Gor, a mighty T-Rex that reigns havoc on the U.S.A. While this is all going on, the Morality Squad enlists the help of Father Bohab, whom is a catholic priest that the squad wanted to crucify GWAR in the media. A long form video, Phallus in Wonderland, was released to accompany the album’s storyline. The “movie” was 54 minutes long. The Road Behind EP was released after the album, which contained the song of the same name, and a live version of “Have You Seen Me?” as well as other unreleased tracks. The single “S.F.W.” was supposedly on the album as a bonus track, though the band has discounted that.A special edition of the album was released through Metal Blade in November of 2009. This contained the album, as well as a DVD with Phallus in Wonderland and Tour De Scum. Gwar fans are often referred to as “bohabs”, from Father Bohab. (Bohab literally means “habitually boring”, which is the opposite of the band and their fans). An interesting song is “Pussy Planet,” which is the closer for the album. It was co-written by Slymenstra Hymen, and it she was meant to sing it, and duet it with Beefcake the Mighty. Though this didn’t turn out to be the final product, as the song just has Beefcake singing, you can still hear her voice in the song. The bass riff opener of the song is similar to the guitar riff in Nirvana’s song “Rape Me”. (Yes, Rape Me was released after Pussy Planet, but Rape Me pre-dates Pussy Planet by a year, as the demo of Rape Me was released on a Nirvana box set). Another thing to note was that the Canadian release of this album does not include the songs “Crack in the Egg”, “Have You Seen Me?”, and “Rock ‘N’ Roll Never Felt So Good”, and instead has a demo of “Krak Down”, and “Bad Bad Men” and a version of the Canadian national anthem, “O Canada,” which is done with synthesized infant cries to ridicule Canada for being “babies” and not included the omitted songs.

Flattus Maximus is not on this album, due to Dewey Rowell leaving the band before recording. This left BalSac The Jaws O' Death (Mike Derks) to do all the lead guitar, minus lead on the songs "Crack In The Egg" (Lead was done by Lee Harris, whom was from Jizmak Da Gusha’s old band Rosebud) and the title track (Lead done by Tim Harriss (of Kepone, the band Michael Bishop left Gwar for)). Balsac still usually plays lead when it comes to performing these songs live. The tour cycle for this album was rather short due to the absence of Flattus.

## Personnel

* Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus) – Lead vocals
* Mike Derks (Balsac the Jaws of Death) – Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, backing vocals
* Michael Bishop (Beefcake the Mighty) – Bass, backing vocals; lead vocals on "Pussy Planet"; Chorus vocals on "The Road Behind"
* Brad Roberts (Jizmak Da Gusha) – Drums
* Danielle Stampe (Slymenstra Hymen) – Backing vocals
* Chuck Varga (Sexecutioner) – Spoken words at the end of "Pussy Planet"
* Hunter Jackson (Edna P. Granbo) – Vocals on "The Morality Squad"
* Dave Musel (Müsel) – Samples on "America Must Be Destroyed"