It’s pretty amazing GWAR have made it as far as they have, considering how much of their act is a gimmick – it’s probably because they’ve been so good at their gimmick, their initial crude, attention-getting stage theatrics evolving over time into a kind of performance art that demands much more than just being able to play the guitar like a god. Oderus Urungus appearing as a Fox News commentator? Not even James Hetfield could pull that off.

This is one of my absolute favorite metal songs, period – the jazzy first couple of verses giving way to that heavy riffing in the middle, and then just exploding gloriously at the end, LOVE LOVE LOVE. The video is also way up there for the band’s brilliant plastering of themselves across the manic sugary landscape of breakfast happytime cereal boxes – your children are eating poison! – while the kids discover a very dubious bonus-treat toy and various bodily fluids fly around in the background.

Also, NSFW on multiple levels, as usual.