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Balsac the Jaws of Death is the guitarist in the rock band GWAR. He appears as a humanoid creature with a face resembling a bear-trap. BalSac is usually portrayed wielding a giant battleaxe. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 426 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (542 × 762 pixel, file size: 113 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ...
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Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by its signature high speed and aggression. ...
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Shock rock is a very wide umbrella term for artists who combine rock music with elements of theatrical shock value in live performances. ...
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GWAR is a satirical thrash metal and shock rock band formed in 1985. ...
dbx or The Dave Brockie Experience is formed of the current members of Gwar. ...
X-Cops was a side project comprised of ex-members from the band GWAR and their extended family of musicians. ...
GWAR is a satirical thrash metal and shock rock band formed in 1985. ...
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GWAR Mythos
According to GWAR Mythos, Balsac hails from the planet Ennui. His age is rumoured to be pi x 10^21,000,000. His weight is 12 tons when fully dressed, and 98 pounds in a towel. His height is described as "taller than Oderus." Balsac "writes songs by scratching his scrotum with his guitar and prefers quadriplegics over blondes. Invented V.D. and has a bear-trap for a face." He is generally depicted as the most intelligent of the principal characters (verified by oracle Scroda Moon), and is generally respected as such by other characters. He is also depicted as the member with the most serious drinking problem - drawings of him often feature a goblet in his hand, and he claimed to be immune to the effects of the Jagermonsta because he was "already drunk." Quadriplegia, also known as tetraplegia, is a symptom in which a human experiences paralysis affecting all four limbs, although not necessarily total paralysis or loss of function. ...
In the field of stock market investing, a bear trap is a short-term reversal of an upward trend. ...
Scroda Moon is a GWAR character, played by Hunter Jackson. ...
Place In Band
 Mike Derks, out of costume, holding the Balsac head. At GWAR's genesis, Balsac played bass. However, early in the band's history, Balsac became the guitar player. He has occasionally been featured as a vocalist. Balsac's vocals can be heard on the song "Mary Anne" off the album We Kill Everything. His (Derks') first GWAR song was "Black and Huge," and the first song featuring him on vocals was "The Needle." "The Needle" was never released on a Metal Blade album, but it was a Slave Pit Single, and was re-recorded as "Escape From The Mooselodge" on We Kill Everything, featuring Oderus Urungus on vocals. "Black and Huge" was originally recorded after Hell-O was released in the United States. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 583 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1244 × 1280 pixel, file size: 1. ...
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GWAR returned in 1999 with their seventh album We Kill Everything, which severely disappointed many fans when compared to their prior albums. ...
Oderus Urungus is both a character and an alter-ego, played by Dave Brockie, in the rock band GWAR. He appears as an intergalactic humanoid barbarian with devil horns and a meaty looking face, and always carries around a long sword named Lick (the name was shortened from Unt Lick...
Hell-O! is the first album released by rock/heavy metal/punk band GWAR. It was released in 1988, on Shimmy Records. ...
Balsac was originally played by Chris Bopst, and at that time, Balsac was the band's bassist. It was Bopst who gave Balsac The Jaws of Death his full name. However, by the time Hell-O had been released, Beefcake and Balsac switched roles and Steve Douglas had replaced Bopst. Douglas played the character until soon after Hell-O was released when he passed the torch to Michael Derks. With the exception of a few gigs in Europe in 1991 (where Balsac was played by Barry Ward), Derks has carried the title since. On a side note, Derks also runs the GWAR mailing list and has performed in Gwar spin-off bands X-Cops, RAWG, and the Dave Brockie eXperience. X-Cops was a side project comprised of ex-members from the band GWAR and their extended family of musicians. ...
dbx or The Dave Brockie Experience is formed of the current members of Gwar. ...
According to the timeline of Slave Pit, Inc., Michael Derks joined the band in 1988, making him the second longest (after Dave Brockie) serving member of GWAR. The character is one of the two longest-serving, having been in every single incarnation of GWAR.
Balsac the Jaws of Death appears on more album covers than any other member of GWAR, having appeared on all but America Must Be Destroyed, We Kill Everything, Slaves Going Single and You're All Worthless and Weak . The GWAR logo on the cover of Beyond Hell reveals a reflection of the bear-trap head (the only character image on an otherwise white cover). America Must Be Destroyed is GWARs third album, released in 1992 as their second album on Metal Blade Records. ...
GWAR returned in 1999 with their seventh album We Kill Everything, which severely disappointed many fans when compared to their prior albums. ...
During 2000, GWAR wasnt doing much of anything - Casey Orr (Beefcake the Mighty) and Zach Blair (Flattus Maximus) returned to Texas to work on side projects, and some of the slaves worked on individual art projects. ...
Released in 2000, Youre All Worthless And Weak is GWARs first live album. ...
Beyond Hell is the tenth studio album by GWAR. It was released on August 29, 2006, the album was originally announced through the bands official website in February 23, 2006. ...
Guitars Used
 Mike Derks as Balsac the Jaws of Death live on stage Derks currently plays ESP Guitars and Krank amplifiers. He seems to prefer guitars similar in shape to the Gibson Explorer (for a brief time, he actually played one) - most photographs are seen of him playing ESP or Jackson's equivalent. He currently has a custom signature variant of the ESP EX series. In the video to "Immortal Corrupter," he is seen playing a yellow-to-black Washburn Dimebag Darrell 332 guitar with red lightning bolts. Only two people had this paint job - Derks and Dimebag Darrell himself. Derks' guitar was stolen after the August 16, 2002 Dave Brockie eXperience concert. It was never recovered. He also owned (it was sold on eBay in 2005) a Steinberger P-series guitar, an instrument he seemed to like (though few of his fans thought it was a real guitar). He also played Fernandes guitars for a time in 1997-9. He has played through Fatboy, Crate, Marshall, and Mesa Boogie amplifiers in the past, occasionally using them. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 398 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (680 × 1024 pixel, file size: 150 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ...
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The ESP EX is a series of electric guitars produced by ESP produced in the United States, Europe and in Japan with the ESP logo as part of the ESP Original Series. ...
A washburn Washburn (full name: Washburn Guitars) was established in 1883 in Chicago, Illinois. ...
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Notes - Ennui is a term for extreme boredom.
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