We Kill Everything - Album Content

Album Content

The band once again offers the funny ("Fishfuck") the gross ("Babyraper"), and the weird ("Penile Drip", in which Oderus does his best Brak impression). Mike Derks lends his vocals to the almost sensitive ballad, "Mary Anne". This album is mostly a collection of gruesomely faulty jokes ("Fuckin' An Animal" and "Nitro Burning Funny Bong"), and contains significantly less brutality and heart than their previous works. "A Short History of the End of the World (Part VII(The Final Chapter(abbr.)))" is the first (and, to date, only) true Gwar instrumental (the title track from America Must Be Destroyed is a collection of samples over an instrumental track, and "Surf of Syn" on RagNaRok has Cardinal Syn's voice in the background), and showcases the musical capabilities of the band collective.

The lyrical content of We Kill Everything is in response to angry fans' complaints about the disgusting lyrics on Carnival of Chaos (or lack thereof). It is also the final Gwar album featuring Michael Bishop, who returned for a few months to replace Casey Orr as Beefcake the Mighty, Hunter Jackson (who would stay with the group until the end of 2000), Danielle Stampe (who toured until 2002), and Dave Musel on keyboards and samples. Bishop also brought along Tim Harriss, both of Kepone, to play Flattus Maximus. We Kill Everything is also the last album in the "Scumdogs" storyline (though "The Song Of Words" on Violence Has Arrived and "Gwarnography" on Lust in Space make reference to it).

Some of the songs are themselves as old as Scumdogs of the Universe, and at least three are remakes of older songs ("A Short History of the End of the World" being a remake of the "Cardinal Syn Theme" from 1989, and "Escape From The Mooselodge" a remake of "The Needle," which featured BalSac the Jaws of Death on vocals for the first time with Gwar; the former can be heard in the video "It's Sleazy," and the latter on Slaves Going Single); "Tune From Da Moon" is a remake of the Death Piggy song "Minute 2 Live", with new lyrics).

The title track is one of the two longest songs written by the band (Carnival of Chaos' "Sammy," at 6:57, like "We Kill Everything," is the other).

This is the first Gwar album not to feature Beefcake The Mighty on lead vocals since 1988, and Violence Has Arrived would continue that trend. "Jiggle The Handle" is the only song to feature Beefcake, as well as every other vocalist on the album, save one - Balsac the Jaws of Death. It also has the distinction of being the Gwar song with the most vocalists actually singing - five (Scroda Moon, Portal Potty, Oderus, Beefcake and Slymenstra). It is tied with RagNaRok for having the most vocalists (six - Jackson, Brockie, Stampe, Derks, Bishop and Bob Gorman - though the liner notes don't state who he is, several authorized sources claim him to be the Portal Potty). There are eight distinct characters on the album: the six aforementioned, a narrator on "Escape From The Mooselodge," voiced by Dave Brockie (the song features him as the narrator and as Oderus), and former Gwar guitarist Cornelius Carnage (played by Greg Ottinger, though he originally played Stephen Sphincter) on "Jagermonsta."

We Kill Everything is the only other Gwar album to have been censored (the first was 1994's This Toilet Earth). The profanities are changed to various noises, and the titles "Fishfuck" and "Fuckin' An Animal" were omitted from the back cover. There also exists a Canadian release that too is censored on the back of the album, but is completely uncensored in the lyrics. The album, when bought from Gwar's website, says "Censored Version" on the disc, yet actually has the back and the CD both fully uncensored.