Ultimate-Guitar.com's Robert Gray recently spoke with GWAR guitarist Cory Smoot (aka Flattus Maximus) about the band's new album, Bloody Pit Of Horror. An excerpt is available below:

Q: How did Bloody Pit Of Horror come to fruition?

Smoot: "We just finished the Lust In Space record actually not too long ago. It almost seems like those two albums were only a year apart. We had just finished recording Lust In Space, and we were out touring, supporting that album, and then was told that Metal Blade was picking up the last option, pretty much meaning that we had one more record to go with Metal Blade. There were tight time restraints because we'd been touring so much, so we didn't really have much time to write. I was working on a solo project though, and with my solo project I was gonna have Brockie do vocals. When he got the music and was listening to it, he came up with the idea that maybe we should use them for the Gwar record, so that went pretty good. That right there was probably a nice chunk of Bloody Pit Of Horror. It actually took us six months to record Bloody Pit Of Horror because we had two European tours to do while we were recording; we tracked the music, went to Europe, came back from Europe, tracked the vocals, mixed and mastered the album, and then went back to Europe. That's pretty much how that went."

Q: Given the fact that some of Bloody Pit Of Horror's tracks were originally written for your solo project, are there any other ways in which they differ from usual Gwar material?

Smoot: "Yeah. We used a zombie concept with four of Bloody Pit Of Horror's songs, so rather than the whole album being conceptual, the album is chopped up into pieces this time. We have four songs that have a zombie concept, though. What's different about this album is - like I said - the fact that we used eight-stringed guitars this time around. The tuning's really low and just sick."

Q: You've said about how heavy Bloody Pit Of Horror is, and spoken about the guitars. What type of heavy styles do Gwar display on this album?

Smoot: "We definitely got some thrash elements in there, some death metal elements in there, some groove metal, and a little bit of math metal. There's definitely some punk rock and some prog rock too. Bloody Pit Of Horror is a real diverse album."

Q: Was there the danger that Bloody Pit Of Horror might be rushed considering how soon the album was written and recorded following Lust In Space?

Smoot: "If we had written all the material right after Lust In Space, then I may have considered Bloody Pit Of Horror rushed. A lot of the material was actually written quite awhile ago though, so even though the album was rushed the music wasn't rushed at all. Bloody Pit Of Horror's material was probably written a year and a half to two years before we started recording the album, so I feel we had adequate time to come up with the material. That's always the key I've learnt - to always stay one step ahead. Once you jump on that conveyor belt, you're always trying to catch up. That's how you end up with boring material, and just write right on the spot. I feel when you do that, it sometimes doesn't come from the soul as much."

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As previously reported, Gwar performed their new track 'Zombies, March!' on Thursday, October 28th on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Check out the footage below.