by Zenae Zukowski | Nov 7, 2023 | News
Lead guitarist Brent Purgason, known as Pustulus Maximus, has announced his exit from GWAR. Purgason joined in 2012 after Cory Smoot’s passing, where he took on a new persona of Pustulus Maximus and worked on albums from 2013’s Battle Maximus up to...
by Alix Vallecillo | May 7, 2015 | News, Updates
And it just keeps escalating. The statement released today by GWAR announcing the departure of Kim Dylla from the band after just a few months after joining came as a surprise to everyone ,including Dylla herself, according to a statement released by the singer via...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 25, 2014 | Tributes, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/XYJ-Ok1z46E[/youtube] Yesterday, Phil Anselmo posted a video taken backstage last month at the Soundwave Festival in Sydney, Australia. In the minute-long clip, Anselmo, GWAR’s Dave Brockie and Brent Purgason, Satyricon’s Satyr and...
by Zach Shaw | Oct 1, 2012 | Meet The New Guy
Back in August, Dave Brockie revealed the identity of GWAR’s new guitarist, only to get humiliated by his master/alias Oderus Urungus. But this morning, slightly less than a year after the passing of Cory Smoot (Flattus Maximus), it’s been officially announced that...
by Zach Shaw | Aug 24, 2012 | Meet The New Guy
It’s been about ten months since the sudden passing of guitarist Cory Smoot. And though they’ve retired the character of Flattus Maximus, GWAR continued on as a four piece on the road. And now it appears that their search for a new Scumdog has come to an end. While an...