MyYearbook.com's Kristen Dunleavy recently caught up with GWAR frontman Oderus Urungus. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Q: I’ve been reading some interviews with you online, and I was wondering: what’s the dumbest question you’ve ever been asked?

Oderus: "The dumbest question is always the typical, ‘What’s the craziest thing that ever happened to you on the road?’ They think it’s a safe question that they can get a really good answer to, but honestly, when you’re in a band like Gwar, or when you’re in any band that’s on the road playing rock ‘n roll for a living, every day is insane. You’d probably get a lot more mileage saying, ‘What’s the most normal thing that’s ever happened to you?’ Usually when people ask me that question, I draw a blank. I try to think of the craziest thing that’s ever happened, and I get this avalanche of vile and obscene memories and they all turn into one big flopping, disgusting beast and you can’t tell the different parts from each other. Maybe it’s not the stupidest question, but the most annoying."

Q: What’s the most normal thing that’s ever happened to you on tour?

Oderus: "No one’s ever asked me that before and even though I suggested the question, I’m completely confused. When you do things like have sex with dead animals, murder major political figures and fight cyborgs from outer space, those are the normal things in your day. The weird things are having a day off, checking into the hotel and having a nice breakfast in bed. That would be a really weird thing. A normal thing would be having repeated anal sex with a dead dog."

Q: You’re on tour in Canada right now. How is Canada treating you?

Oderus: "Canada is great, it’s really amazing. Back when Gwar was just starting and we were touring the U.S., we’d have 200 or 300 people at our shows. Then we’d come up to Canada and right off the bat, there’d be 500, 600 people showing up. To this day, we have some of our shows in North America in some of the smallest, weirdest, most out of the way places."

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BW&BK; recently received the following Gwar-related press release

For many years Richmond VA artist/musician Dave Brockie has been known to the world as Gwar's pig-snouted and bellicose lead "throat-thing", Oderus Urungus, playing to semi-packed houses around easily 35% of the world.

Never one to shy away from using Gwar's success as a way to gain attention for a bewildering variety of side projects, including a glut of bands (X-COPS, DEATH PIGGY, DBX), a variety of bizarre performances (F-Art Players, Chippy The Chippopautamus, The Crack-a-thon), and a slew of demented drawings and illustrations (see some here), Brockie has now added literature to his already bulging quiver of artistic arrows.

11 years after its completion, Brockie's sprawling epic of modern war and ancient necromancy, Whargoul, has finally been released in book form by Eraserhead Press. The story of the Whargoul came to being in the late '90s as Brockie toured Europe with Gwar. Inspired by some of histories more despicable events, Brockie began drawing and writing about the creature that called itself Whargoul. The idea of an undying creature that found sustenance in the carnage of war began to flesh itself out in the form of several comics for the now defunct Slave Pit Funnies, and was stand-out track on Gwar's 1997 album Rag-Na-Rok.

Ultimately Brockie decided the only way the story could truly be told was through a novel, and began hand-writing the book into a journal that was half-filled with pages of microscopic lettering, which he unbelievably lost, forcing him to re-write it from memory on his first lap-top. Brockie finally finished the book in 1999. "After it was done, I didn't really know what to do with it, so I asked Henry Rollins," said Brockie. "He just kind of stared at me..."

The book ended up on Brockie's long-running website, where people could (and still can) download it free of charge. After languishing there for the better part of a decade, it attracted the attention of Eraserhead Press publisher Jeff Burk, who after reading it decided it was a good fit for the Eraserhaed/Deadite Publishing roster.

"Brockie finds insight, and ever humor, in our most destructive impulses," he said from the company's headquarters in Portland. "It's just what we need. This is not a book for everybody but those who get it will love it. In a world of boring and safe fiction, Whargoul is exactly the kind of book that metalheads, punks, and splatter fans are craving."

Slave Pit, Eraserhead, and Deadite Publishing present Whargoul, the first novel from an artist who for over a quarter century has provided a consistent level of mayhem that few could match, or even want to.