Tag: Blothar The Berserker

Show Review: GWAR at The Regency Ballroom, 10/20/2024

Photos and review by: Alan Ralph @ARPhotoSF 

As with every four-year election cycle, this 2024 United States presidential election season has been equally as boring as it is annoying, with the 24/7 news coverage and the debates and the spam texts and emails and the constant ads on the social feeds as well as in the physical mailbox.

Thankfully, the greatest live band in the universe, Antarctica’s very own GWAR, has once again stepped up to help out the American public… by executing all of the presidential candidates, present and past.

Spinning Platters is never one to avoid a good ole bloody mess, and with the expensive camera equipment properly covered, GWAR marched onto the stage and wasted no time in chopping off heads, hands, arms, and anything else available to spew their fluids onto all of those awaiting their bloody destiny.  

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Show Review: Scorching the Psychotherapy Sessions in Florida

Photos and review by: Alan Ralph @AlanHasPicks

Ten days after attending, photographing, and reviewing Overkill, Exhorder, and Heathen at Great American Music Hall, Spinning Platters’ resident metalhead took a trip to the extremely sunny, hot, and occasionally rainy shores of Florida to ring in his 50 years of existence with a weekend of metal with The Pyschotherapy Sessions at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa and another Overkill show at House of Blues in Orlando! 

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Album Review: The New Dark Ages by Gwar

Metalheads are gonna hate this album. 

But damn, Mike can sing. 

This is GWAR’s 15th studio album and the 2nd studio album (or 3rd depending on how The Disc WIth No Name is counted) with Mike Bishop, slave to The Berzerker Blothar, at the mic. GWARs history in metal, and what influenced them, is on clear display. This album took me on a tour of metal history. From the gloom of Doom Metal to the sweaty LA club scene, over to an arena in England. I can already feel the heat and sweat pressing in when next I see them. I can tell which track will move the pit round, up and down, or give it a rest. I’ve been on this blood, and piss slick road for over 30 years, and The New Dark Ages is, in this Bohab;s opinion, not just an excellent album, but it’s more of a departure from what I would call their “sound”, you know it when you it. Let’s call it, AO, After Oderus. This album feels like a natural progression from The Blood of Gods T and I’m here for it.

The New Dark Ages is coming your way June 3rd. You can prepare for your listening in both the physical and virtual realms experience here!