This Toilet Earth

Released at the height of GWAR’s MTV exposure, This Toilet Earth marks a shift in the band’s sound. This album features a wide array of genre experimentation, with elements of hardcore punk (“Eat Steel”, “Fight”), pop (“Jack The World”), prog (“Sonderkommando”), western (“Bad Bad Men”), funk fusion (“Pepperoni”), blues (“Pocket Pool”), and Southern rock (“Slap U Around”).

The album itself does not feature a concrete story, opting instead for a broader story to be told in the corresponding film, Skulhedface.

This Toilet Earth was the first GWAR album to be censored internationally. The first pressing of the album was through Priority Records, and featured an unaltered tracklist. Subsequent pressings of the album either have “B.D.F.” unlisted or removed entirely. The extreme content of the song cost GWAR a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records.

TTE is the first GWAR album to feature Pete Lee as lead guitarist Flattus Maximus, as well as the last album to feature Mike Bishop as bassist Beefcake The Mighty. Bishop left GWAR to focus on his other band, Kepone, but would later return as Beefcake during the recording and subsequent tour for 1999’s We Kill Everything, and later as new lead singer Blothar The Berzerker following the death of Dave Brockie in 2014.