Static-X w/ GWAR , DOPE , and A Killer’s Confession @ The Pageant

Wednesday night Static-X and GWAR brought their Machines VS Monsters Tour to the Pageant in St. Louis. Along on tour with the bands are New York City industrial metal band DOPE and Cleveland, Ohio Alt-Metal band A Killer’s Confession.

GWAR is a band that I believe everyone should see once. Even if you are not a fan of heavy metal the bands shows are full of humor and over the top violence like decapitating political figures or famous people. No one is safe from GWAR and it does not matter what your political belief is. Barack Obama, George Bush, Justin Bieber, and Pope Francis to name a few. Tonight The band started things off with Elon Musk coming out with a chainsaw for a hand saying he was going to cut government spending right before he was decapitated and fake blood was sprayed all over the crowd. When you go to a GWAR show you should expect to come out of it covered in fake blood or other liquids. The band then kicked the night off with ‘Fuck This Place’, as a now headless Elon walked around stage spraying blood everywhere.

Before the second song one member asked if we had a Buc-ee’s around here as they needed some pajama pants. Lead singer Blöthar the Berserker said that they need to go to Metal Metal Land before kicking off into the song with the same name. For the bands third song ‘El Presidente‘ the band fittingly brought out a bloated Donald Trump who danced around stage before having his stomach cut from him and shooting blood into the crowd. Even Taylor Swift mad an appearance at tonight’s show. A pregnant Taylor who was knocked up by one of the band members threatened to write a song about them and sick her “Swifties”on them if they did not help out with the child before the band played ‘Womb With a View‘. Blöthar told the crowd that even after 40 years we’re not sick of you mother fuckers before closing the set with ‘Sick of You‘.

By the time Static-X came on stage the crowd was pumped and drenched in fake blood. Frontman and lead singer Xer0 (DOPE lead singer Edsel Dope) positioned behind a what was almost like an elevated pulpit with the Static-X logo on the front of it. Base player Tony Campos and guitarist Koichi Fukuda flanking him. Both Campos and Fukuda would switch sides of the stage several times over the course of the night giving fans their fill of their playing skills. The band kicked things off with ‘I Want to Fucking Break It‘ off the 2005 album Start a War. Somewhere around the third or fourth song of the night “Static Man”, as what I have seen him called by several fans, came out and smoke filled bubbles filled the air. It was probably one of the most memorable and coolest things I have had the pleasure of photographing at a concert in a long time. The nights sixteen song set was heavily filled with eight songs off their debut album Wisconsin Death Trip. Stand outs were ‘Bled for Days’, ‘I’m With Stupid’ and bands first single and closing song of the night ‘Push It’.

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