GWAR Concert History

GWAR is a satirical thrash metal/punk band formed in 1985-1986 by a group of artists and musicians at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. The band is perhaps best known for their elaborate sci-fi/horror film inspired costumes, raunchy lyrics, and graphic stage performances, which can consist of scatology, sadomasochism, necrophilia, pedo-necrophilia, beastio-necrophilia, fire dancing, fake pagan rituals, mock executions/mutilations, and other controversial violent and political themes.

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Upcoming GWAR Tours & Concerts (Updated for 2025)

Date Concert Venue Location
May 08, 2025 –
May 11, 2025
Upcoming
Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival
Korn / Bad Omens / Three Days Grace / Sevendust / Alien Ant Farm / Orgy / Motionless In White / Poppy / Memphis May Fire / Fit for a King / Boundaries / Caskets / Wind Walkers / Killswitch Engage / Jinjer / As I Lay Dying / All That Remains / Fit For An Autopsy / Bloodywood / Left To Suffer / Ministry / Filter / HEALTH / Seven Hours After Violet / Nitzer Ebb / Uncured / Silly Goose / Metallica / Rob Zombie / Alice Cooper / Testament / Exodus / Overkill / Mastodon / Acid Bath / Suicidal Tendencies / Deafheaven / Converge / 200 Stab Wounds / Dead Heat / Cannibal Corpse / Hatebreed / Municipal Waste / Gatecreeper / Armored Saint / Frozen Soul / Peelingflesh / Whitechapel / All Shall Perish / The Black Dahlia Murder / After the Burial / The Acacia Strain / Upon A Burning Body / AngelMaker / Linkin Park / Incubus / I Prevail / Trivium / Hoobastank / Sick Puppies / Bullet for My Valentine / Jimmy Eat World / Of Mice & Men / Escape the Fate / Set It Off / ERRA / Nevertel / grandson / Crossfade / Citizen Soldier / Trust Company / Framing Hanley / The Funeral Portrait / Return to Dust / Underoath / Silverstein / The Devil Wears Prada / Invent Animate / Silent Planet / Scary Kids Scaring Kids / I Set My Friends On Fire / Metallica / Alice In Chains / Chevelle / Quicksand / Cavalera / Corrosion Of Conformity / Ice Nine Kills / Hollywood Undead / Asking Alexandria / Badflower / From Ashes to New / The Plot In You / Fame On Fire / Arch Enemy / GWAR / Obituary / Nails / Sanguisugabogg / Shadow of Intent / Category 7 / Power Trip / Sunami / Speed / Jesus Piece / Pain of Truth / Candy / Gridiron Show all bands
Historic Crew Stadium Columbus, Ohio, United States
Show Duplicate for May 08, 2025
May 11, 2025
Upcoming
Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival (Day 4 of 4)
Metallica / Alice In Chains / Chevelle / Quicksand / Cavalera / Corrosion Of Conformity / Ice Nine Kills / Hollywood Undead / Asking Alexandria / Badflower / From Ashes to New / The Plot In You / Fame On Fire / Arch Enemy / GWAR / Obituary / Nails / Sanguisugabogg / Shadow of Intent / Category 7 / Power Trip / Sunami / Speed / Jesus Piece / Pain of Truth / Candy / Gridiron Show all bands
Historic Crew Stadium Columbus, Ohio, United States
May 15, 2025 –
May 18, 2025
Upcoming
Welcome to Rockville 2025
Green Day / Linkin Park / Korn / Three Days Grace / Sublime / Incubus / Alice In Chains / 3 Doors Down / Marilyn Manson / Jimmy Eat World / Shinedown / Pierce the Veil / Good Charlotte / Sleeping With Sirens / Bullet for My Valentine / Rob Zombie / Daughtry / Asking Alexandria / Hollywood Undead / Bush / Taking Back Sunday / Hoobastank / Bowling For Soup / Chevelle / The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus / Theory of a Deadman / Escape the Fate / Of Mice & Men / Killswitch Engage / P.O.D. / Motionless In White / Halestorm / New Found Glory / Everclear / Mastodon / I Prevail / Finger Eleven / Trivium / We Came As Romans / Snot / All That Remains / Blue October / Insane Clown Posse / Silverstein / Mudvayne / Bad Omens / The Devil Wears Prada / Underoath / Set It Off / Memphis May Fire / August Burns Red / Filter / Lit / Beartooth / Sevendust / Blessthefall / As I Lay Dying / Saving Abel / Hawthorne Heights / Testament / Arch Enemy / Saosin / Candlebox / Crossfade / Emmure / Chiodos / HEALTH / Attila / The Plot In You / Alesana / Whitechapel / Knocked Loose / Attack Attack! / A Skylit Drive / The Dillinger Escape Plan / Real Friends / From Ashes to New / Dorothy / Fit for a King / Exodus / The Black Dahlia Murder / Caskets / Scary Kids Scaring Kids / Deafheaven / Evans Blue / Converge / Municipal Waste / Dayseeker / Kublai Khan TX / Obituary / After the Burial / Upon A Burning Body / Jinjer / Smile Empty Soul / The Acacia Strain / I Set My Friends On Fire / ERRA / Body Count / GWAR / Chimaira / Bilmuri / Fit For An Autopsy / Silent Planet / All Shall Perish / Nails / Power Trip / Bleed From Within / AngelMaker / Brand of Sacrifice / Butcher Babies / Invent Animate / Wind Walkers / Quicksand / Sunami / Sleep Theory / Shadow of Intent / Of Virtue / Full of Hell / Havok / Until I Wake / Nevertel / Dexter and The Moonrocks / Dry Killl Logic / Left To Suffer / Incendiary / Nerv / Gatecreeper / Harm's Way / Sanguisugabogg / The Union Underground / It Dies Today / Candy / Adam Gontier / Boundaries / Peelingflesh / 200 Stab Wounds / One Step Closer / The Funeral Portrait / Mugshot / Pain of Truth / ALLT / Gates to Hell / Frozen Soul / Royale Lynn / Return to Dust / Bodybox / Dead Heat / Big Ass Truck / Seven Hours After Violet / Chained Saint / Liliac / The Pretty Wild Show all bands
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Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
Show Duplicates for May 15, 2025
May 16, 2025
Upcoming
GWAR The Senate Columbia, South Carolina, United States
May 17, 2025
Upcoming
GWAR Manchester Music Hall Lexington, Kentucky, United States
May 24, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession Revel Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
May 26, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession The Cotillion Wichita, Kansas, United States
May 27, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope Val Air Ballroom West Des Moines, Iowa, United States
May 28, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession The Pageant St. Louis, Missouri, United States
May 30, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession The Fillmore Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
May 31, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession

Machines vs. Monsters Tour 2025

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The Capitol Theatre Davenport, Iowa, United States
Jun 01, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession GLC Live at 20 Monroe Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Jun 03, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killers Confession

Static-X @ Old National Centre

Old National Centre Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Jun 04, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession

Machines vs Monsters

The Clyde Theatre Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Jun 05, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession Capitol Theatre Wheeling, West Virginia, United States
Jun 07, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession The Dome at Toyota Oakdale Theatre Wallingford, Connecticut, United States
Jun 08, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope

Static-X @ Buffalo RiverWorks

Buffalo Riverworks Buffalo, New York, United States
Jun 09, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession History Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jun 10, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession MTELUS Montréal, Québec, Canada
Jun 11, 2025
Upcoming
Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killers Confession

Machines vs. Monsters Tour 2025

Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, United States
Show Duplicate for Jun 11, 2025

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Welcome to Rockville 2025 on May 15, 2025 [737-small]

Welcome to Rockville 2025
May 15 - 18, 2025
 Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
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Welcome to Rockville 2025 on May 15, 2025 [136-small]

Welcome to Rockville 2025
May 15 - 18, 2025
 Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
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Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession on May 31, 2025 [357-small]

Static-X / GWAR / Dope / A Killer's Confession
May 31, 2025
 Davenport, Iowa, United States
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Genres:

Punk
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Heavy Metal
Alternative Metal
Hardcore Punk
Thrash Metal
Nu Metal
Industrial Metal
Groove Metal
Comic
Old School Thrash
Comic Metal
Comedy Rock
Virginia Punk
Virginia Metal
Shock Rock
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Latest Setlist (11/19/2024):

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  1. El Presidente
  2. Ham on the Bone
  3. Happy Death-Day
  4. Completely Fucked
  5. Mother Fucking Liar
  6. Let Us Slay
  7. Rise Again
  8. Berserker Mode
  9. Bring Back the Bomb
  10. Immortal Corrupter
  11. Maggots
  12. Saddam a Go-Go
  13. Biledriver
  14. Crack in the Egg
  15. America Must Be Destroyed
  16. Sick of You
  17. Fishfuck
  18. Fuck This Place

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Concerts Per Year:

2025 24 concerts
2024 68 concerts
2023 79 concerts
2022 94 concerts
2021 45 concerts
2020 4 concerts
2019 76 concerts
2018 54 concerts
2017 89 concerts
2016 15 concerts
2015 76 concerts
2014 67 concerts
2013 73 concerts
2012 108 concerts
2011 61 concerts
2010 119 concerts
2009 98 concerts
2008 79 concerts
2007 112 concerts
2006 100 concerts
2005 128 concerts
2004 54 concerts
2002 53 concerts
2000 8 concerts
1999 33 concerts
1998 8 concerts
1997 38 concerts
1996 22 concerts
1995 21 concerts
1994 30 concerts
1993 3 concerts
1992 56 concerts
1991 19 concerts
1990 15 concerts
1989 6 concerts
1988 5 concerts
1987 2 concerts
1986 2 concerts

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Steve 8066 Aug 06, 2022

Gwar also played The Leisure World @ Bridlington,UK on May 11th 1990 (i was there) (missing from the list)

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