Gwar has announced their first new album in five years The New Dark Ages to be out on June 3 on CD and digital streaming services (and September 16 on vinyl and cassette) via their own Pit Records. The album is tied directly to a graphic novel called Gwar In The Duoverse Of Absurdity, whose plot deals with Gwar being "sucked off into an alternate universe to do battle with their evil twins and the specter of rogue technology."
"This was the most utterly engrossing book I've ever read!" said guitarist Bälsäc The Jaws 'O Death. "I couldn't wait until I'd read what was on the page before I was compelled to turn it! This novel has the one element that is missing in so many so-called literary masterpieces: It's about me!"
"Gwar has made sure that this story is a full throttle hysterical ride into tipping every sacred cow possible and I consider it an honor to help bring this chapter of the band's legacy to fetid, pulsing, life," added graphic novel Rantz Hoseley.
As for The New Dark Ages, vocalist Berserker Blóthar has a few words.
"This is the greatest rock record of all time. These are the songs for a new age, a New Dark Age, when men live by the dimming light of a technology destined to betray them. Listen, as we have a rock and roll orgy in the ruins of the world to celebrate humanity’s descent into an age of darkness, disease, ignorance, and death."
