GWAR's Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus
Bandleader, visual artist, entrepreneur, monster-maker, cable news pundit and World War II scholar
Dave Brockie is dead. He leaves behind an enormous extended family of artists, musicians and cohorts that he supported, inspired, and gave a start to. The Richmond, Va., native is probably best known to Earth-bound scum as Oderous Urungus, the hulking alien frontman and mastermind behind heavy metal legend GWAR.
Simpletons would probably dismiss GWAR as a gimmicky novelty act, but real heads know that it was one of the greatest bands to ever grace our puny presence. Formed in 1984 in the midst of Reagan and PMRC-era censorship and paranoia, GWAR managed to take things far beyond the point of bad taste.