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Artist   :: GWAR
Title    :: America Must Be Destroyed - Bonus DVD
Year     :: 2009
Genre    :: Metal
Label    :: Metal Blade

. Region   :: NTSC
Audio    :: DD 2.0
Subs     :: n/a
Size     :: 80x100Mb

Re-encoded  :: no
of passes  :: n/a
. Avg. bitrate :: n/a Kbps
Stripped :: n/a

Band URL :: http://www.gwar.net/
Retail URL :: http://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecords/item/11469

tracklist

:: Phallus in Wonderland
01 :: Crack in the Egg
02 :: Have You Seen Me?
03 :: The Road Behind
04 :: The Morality Squad
05 :: Gor-Gor
06 :: Ham on the Bone (Credits)

:: Tour de Scum
01 :: The Salaminizer
02 :: Crack in the Egg
03 :: Love Surgery
04 :: Maggots
05 :: Horror of Yig
06 :: Have You Seen Me?
07 :: Sexecutioner
08 :: The Morality Squad
09 :: GWAR Theme
10 :: Slaughterama
11 :: Gor-Gor

release notes

This is the reissue of the 1992 release America Must Be
Destroyed featuring new DIGIPACK packaging and GWAR feature
video/movie releases Phallus in Wonderland and Tour de Scum.

Phallus in Wonderland was GWAR's first attempt at a
commercially released, long-form movie. The plot tells the
tale of GWAR's conflict with the Morality Squad, after the
theft of Oderus Urungus' "Cuttlefish of Cthulhu" (or
penis). Meanwhile, the giant T-Rex, Gor-Gor is born and
helps GWAR defeat the Morality Squad. The video was
nominated for a Grammy in 1993 (which they lost to Annie
Lennox for Diva, as mock-mentioned in the 1994 song "Jack
The World").

Phallus in Wonderland was released on VHS in 1992, and DVD
in 1999, but has been out of print in either format since
2002 (some sources give 1994 as the year for the VHS).
Metal Blade and Slave Pit both carry the remaining VHS
copies, and neither have the DVD. There is some confusion
as to who actually owns the rights to this film, with Metal
Blade saying that Slave Pit is the owner (and that they are
in the re-negotiation process), and Slave Pit stating the
exact opposite.

Because of this, copies of both have been hard to find and
has led to some cases of people selling them for as much as
$120.00.

On January 8, 2008, Metal Blade Records re-released the
DVD. The DVD special features include instant scene access,
options to play songs only and curtain call. The DVD's come
in a variety of colors, such as blue and black, and also
have a phallus etched onto them.

"Distortion Wells" is the pseudonym for Bill Morrison, who
would later direct the music video to "Saddam A Go-Go."
"Judas Bullhorn" is Canadian Director/Musician Blair
Dobson. Despite being nominated for a Grammy,neither Dobson
or Morrison were ever paid for months of work on the
project and Dobson, after initiating the project between
his company and Slave Pit /Metal Blade left halfway through
shooting.

In the Bohab Central forums, Mike Bishop (who played
Beefcake the Mighty at the time) claims that this use of
outside directors led to serious tension between himself
(it was his doing) and Hunter Jackson (the founder of Slave
Pit), and was a major factor in his departure the following
year.

As with the album America Must Be Destroyed (upon which
this film is based), Phallus in Wonderland does not have a
distinct Flattus Maximus character. A friend of the band's,
nicknamed "Stretch," filled the role for the few scenes in
which Flattus appears, and is killed in the "Gor-Gor"
video.

Released in 1992, Tour De Scum is the second installment in
a line of video concerts by GWAR. This one is from the
"Scumdogs of the Universe" tour, hence the title. Running
almost an hour, it is a polished version of All the Sex and
Twice the Violence.

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