In a blood and slime-soaked retelling of the death of Gram Parsons, a new lawsuit accuses metal band GWAR of stealing recently deceased singer David Brockie's property, including his guitars, artwork and—perhaps most significantly—cremated remains.

Dave Brockie aka Oderus Urungus, former frontman of thrash metal band GWAR, was given his second memorial at Friday's annual GWAR-B-Q in the only way appropriate: by having his costume lit on fire and set out into the middle of Hadad's Lake in Virginia. Brockie died of a heroin overdose in March this year.

Dave Brockie, better known as GWAR frontman Oderus Urungus, was found dead in his Richmond, Va. home Sunday night, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.

The ludicrous petition to have gore-metal cretins GWAR perform at the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show now has 44,000-plus signatures. Only worth endorsing if the MVP is fake-murdered on a giant wheel of knives.

As part of our ongoing project to catalog the 2012 presidential election from a metal point of view, we've been soliciting presidential endorsements from noteworthy American metal musicians. Today: In Defence.

As part of our ongoing project to catalog the 2012 presidential election from a metal point of view, we've been soliciting presidential endorsements from noteworthy American metal musicians. Today: GWAR.

With the Republican presidential primary still bitterly contested between the four remaining candidates, every last endorsement counts — especially the crucial support of the Big Four of thrash metal: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax. Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has come out in support of Rick Santorum.

Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus, the lead guitarist for Disneyfied Satanic metal outfit GWAR, was found dead on the band's tour bus on Thursday after playing a date in Minneapolis. There's no word yet on how it happened. [AP]

Hating Sarah Palin is a personal hobby of mine. But there are lines even I won't cross! GWAR—shock rockers who dress like Transformers at a swingers sex club—recently "went there" by disemboweling Sarah Palin in effigy on stage.

The folks on Red Eye are discussing the recent news that scientists are experimenting with prescribing hallucinogens for depression. It wouldn't be a truly informed debate without the perspective of at least one guy wearing a space alien costume.