Band Dismissal
The members of Gwar don't really like to talk about We Kill Everything (a recent news post on their website confirms this: "...and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief that we hadn’t put out another “We Kill Everything”, no matter how much they might have enjoyed having sex with animals!"), and they rarely play more than one or two songs (usually just "Babyraper", though the recent wrestling tours use "A Short History..." during the second match of the night.) from the album since the Gwarmageddon 1999 tour. This could be due either to their dislike of the album, or by the fact that because most of the songs deal with a specific concept or have a former member, they are unable to be played (though in soundcheck before their concerts, they do play "Short History of the End of the World"). Brockie (Oderus Urungus) particularly dislikes the song "Nitro-Burnin' Funny Bong," which he describes as "extremely annoying," along with the entire "It's Sleazy" video. However, Brockie, Derks and Brad Roberts (Jizmak Da Gusha) played "Nitro-Burnin' Funny Bong" as the Dave Brockie eXperience, along with other Gwar songs (including "Fishfuck;" another We Kill Everything song that the band no longer plays live), though will probably never do so again, due to the dissolution of DBX. Also, on Gwar's 2006 DVD, titled "Blood Bath and Beyond," Oderus Urungus and Sleazy P. Martini describe Scroda Moon as "the stupidest Gwar character."
When it was active, Gwar's message board made it explicitly clear NOT to make mention of We Kill Everything, lest they who did such be banned from the forum.
It is hinted by the Gwar members from around this time (including Danielle Stampe) that this is the band's least successful album, both in record sales and in tour. The decline in album sales is indirectly addressed in "Escape from the Mooselodge", when Oderus proclaims, "Sales are dropping, riffs are slopping, can you smell the zits I'm popping? What the hell do we do?" -- or at least it might have been if it was possible for the lyrics to be referencing an event that hadn't happened yet.
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