Track Info. For Beyond Hell

## Track Info. Beyond Hell

All song descriptions and information taken from Genius.

## Intro

The first track of *Beyond Hell*, “Intro” is a short piece of narration that sets the scene for the album’s story: The Nazi Pope’s armies ambush GWAR’s fortress while the band is asleep in a drunken stupor.

The dissonant guitar riff in the background, performed by Balsac The Jaws Of Death, would later reappear in both “Lust In Space” and “You Are My Meat”.

## War Is All We Know

The first true song of the album, “War Is All We Know” tells of The Nazi Pope’s army ambushing GWAR’s fortress. Though the band tries to mount a comeback, they find themselves overwhelmed and admit defeat, retreating underground.

Though the lyrics specifically detail part of *Beyond Hell*’s plot, “War Is All We Know” has been performed live at concerts in the years afterward, regardless of tour storylines.

## Go To Hell

In the story of *Beyond Hell* this song describes Gwar's retreat to hell by using tunnels under their fortress.

## I Love the Pigs

Story wise this song describes when Gwar makes their way to Hell but find a very long line at the gates, along with a pig-like demonic police officer beating up people with a club. This demon used to be a corrupt policeman while he was alive, involving himself in drug deals until the last one went wrong and he was shot (despite this, the cause of death is said to be suicide by the authorities). Gwar murder and mutilate the demonic cop and make their way through the gates of Hell.

## Eighth Lock

The intended lead single from *Beyond Hell*, “Eighth Lock” is a heavy thrash song about Malebolge, the eighth circle of Hell described in Dante’s *Inferno*. Within the album’s story, GWAR fights their way through Hell and wind up at the Eighth Lock, described as a massive prison for the underworld’s worst demons.

The music video depicts GWAR performing the song in a fiery warehouse, interspersed with grainy shots of taxidermy, eyeless corpses, and other horrific imagery. The Nazi Pope, the album’s initial villain, is seen performing a Satanic ritual on lead singer Oderus Urungus.

## Destroyed

“Destroyed” is a fast-paced thrash song about a decadent rock star who will do anything for drugs and alcohol. Within *Beyond Hell*’s story, the song is about GWAR’s encounter with Toe E. Namel, a monstrous demon who embodies the stereotypes of rock stars indulging in hard drug abuse. Namel attempts to stop GWAR’s travels through Hell, but is ultimately defeated.

The lyrics of the song would later become bittersweet when GWAR’s lead singer Dave Brockie (Oderus Urungus) passed away from a heroin overdose in March 2014. In an Instagram post, Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe said he believed Brockie was not a full-on junkie and only dabbled with drugs.

## The Ultimate Bohab

“The Ultimate Bohab” is about a dedicated fan who commits suicide to follow GWAR to Hell, much to their annoyance.

“Bohab” is the term for a GWAR fan. It was coined in the 80s by Chuck Varga (Sexecutioner) and Dave Musel (Müsel) as a nickname for a socially inept friend of Hunter Jackson (Techno Destructo) named Bob. They called him “Bob The Slob”, which later mutated into “Bohab The Slohab” (a reference to the 1962 Ray Stevens novelty song “Ahab The Arab”) before eventually shortening it to just “Bohab”. The word “Bohab” then took on a generalized meaning of a person who was “persistently friendly” (engaging in “bohabbery”) and talked too much about trivial matters without understanding obvious social cues of disinterest. Don Drakulich (Sleazy P. Martini) later recounted the origins of the term during a 2022 livestream, in which he also told the story of Bob’s death.

On the corresponding *Beyond Hell* tour, the Ultimate Bohab character was given two different names: Melvin Fleebish and Stubbles McGillicutty. Both names date back to the earliest GWAR concerts as the names of “lucky contest winners” that were brought onstage and slaughtered by GWAR. Regardless of name, the Ultimate Bohab was disemboweled on a rack.

Deluxe VIP tickets to the GWAR-B-Q, the band’s annual lakeside mini-festival, are called “Ultimate Bohab Ticket Packages” in reference to this song.

## The One That Will Not Be Named

The climax of *Beyond Hell*’s story, “The One That Will Not Be Named” tells of GWAR finally arriving at Satan’s fortress, only to discover Satan is actually a Jewish minotaur-like monster named Jewcifer. In the song, Jewcifer is voiced by longtime artist and GWAR Slave Matt Maguire.

On the *Beyond Hell* tour, Jewcifer speaks with multiple “split personality” voices, the main one being a stereotypical nasally Jew. He attempts to ward GWAR off by offering them chart-topping success in exchange for sexual favors. Oderus Urungus is prepared to accept until Balsac The Jaws Of Death convinces him otherwise. Though his hands get chopped off, Jewcifer proves to be too strong for GWAR alone, and they summon their pet Tyrannosaurus Rex Gor-Gor to bite Jewcifer’s head off to finally kill him.

## Back In Crack

Following the defeat of Jewcifer, the band find themselves back at their destroyed fortress receiving a 9-ton crack boulder from Sleazy P. Martini, and pondering over how meaningless their quest was, as they were left with absolutely nothing but a ruined castle and the knowledge that their adventure at least “was good for some kicks”.

## School's Out

“School’s Out” is a cover of the iconic Alice Cooper song of the same name with some altered lyrics.

“School’s Out” was recorded at the request of GWAR’s record label at the time, the now-defunct DRT Entertainment. The executives at DRT wanted a more “accessible” lead single to boost *Beyond Hell*’s sales. GWAR initially wanted “Eighth Lock” as the lead single, but begrudgingly agreed to DRT’s wishes.

The music video features GWAR performing the song in a classroom and causing chaos in the school. The teacher/“school marm” in the video is played by longtime GWAR artist and Slave Scott Krahl in drag, and the janitor is played by bassist Todd Evans (Beefcake The Mighty).

When asked about “School’s Out” in an August 2006 interview with Ultimate-Guitar, lead guitarist Cory Smoot (Flattus Maximus) said:

> `*"The “School’s Out” idea was actually a management idea. We sat down and had a meeting, and our label rep just told us, “You guys are growing pretty fast. The kids are loving you guys. You guys seems to be the cool thing right now.” And he was like, “GWAR has always been definitely a live band.” We do decent in album sales, but the way we pack shows – we’ve seen gold-selling bands not even pack as well as GWAR will at a show. He brought it up and, of course, our integrity sat strong there. We were just contemplating it forever, just trying to decide what would be a good cover song. What would we do? And our manager’s idea was “School’s Out.” And who better to cover a song than (from) the godfather of theatrical rock himself? Not to mention a total, I’m sure, marketing scheme as far as school was letting out and all that stuff. We just shot a really cool video for it. Hopefully MTV plays it. We’re trying to make sure nothing’s too out of hand. We went out to Brooklyn to some old school and got a bunch of hot girls, ex-strippers, and of course, our goofy-looking asses. We went to this school and did this crazy, cheesy, hilarious, but awesome video for “School’s Out,” which hopefully should be out soon."*`
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