...the gruesome spectacle of a live GWAR show will numb you to a lot of  things. The band's act is so ridiculously over the top you forget how incredible the music actually is. These guys are playing fast, fairly complex metal in costumes that probably weigh 100 pounds. This all the while blood and assorted bodily fluids flow freely from the various effigies the on-stage slaves gut, gore, and eviscerate.

Monday night's sold-out show at Water Street Music Hall was textbook GWAR: loud, violent, bloody, and incredibly vulgar. Singer Oderus Urungus took pleasure in extended periods of urination over the audience. The blood that sprayed over the crowd had fans of all ages (I saw a cat in his 50s) emerging from the pit looking like chewed up pieces of Dentyne.