Written By Caine Blackthorn
GWAR and Joe Bob Briggs are joining forces, and the result sounds like something dragged out of a drive-in theater after midnight, soaked in fake blood and questionable bodily fluids.
The legendary shock-metal maniacs have teamed up with horror host Joe Bob Briggs for GWAR and the Last Drive-In-Stein, arriving November 13, 2026, through GWAR’s Pit Records.
The announcement also brings a new single and video, “Splatter-Fu,” written specifically for GWAR by John Brennan.
Because apparently four decades of intergalactic slaughter weren’t enough. Now they’re invading the drive-in.
GWAR Meets the Last Drive-In
Few bands have treated horror, absurdity, theatrical violence, and heavy metal with the same enthusiasm as GWAR.
And few television personalities have celebrated low-budget horror, cult cinema, and gloriously questionable filmmaking quite like Joe Bob Briggs.
Briggs, known for The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs and Monstervision, has built his reputation championing the kind of films polite society occasionally wishes would remain buried.
GWAR, meanwhile, has spent more than four decades making polite society deeply uncomfortable.
The collaboration celebrates both GWAR’s long-running career and Briggs’ 40 years in television.
It’s a meeting of two entertainment worlds that have never been particularly interested in behaving themselves.
What’s on the New Album?
GWAR and the Last Drive-In-Stein is divided into two distinct halves.
Side A features GWAR’s performance from The Last Drive-In’s 2025 Halloween special, combining GWAR originals with material associated with Briggs’ horror program.
Side B belongs to John Brennan and the Bigfeet, the show’s house band, performing music written for its final two seasons.
The album is therefore part live GWAR release, part horror-show soundtrack, and entirely comfortable inhabiting the stranger corners of popular culture.
For longtime fans of both GWAR and Joe Bob Briggs, that combination should require very little explanation.
Hear GWAR’s New Single “Splatter-Fu”
To accompany the announcement, GWAR has released “Splatter-Fu,” a song written for the band by John Brennan.
An official video is also available.
The release provides the first taste of the collaboration ahead of its November arrival.
Watch “Splatter-Fu”:
GWAR and the Last Drive-In-Stein Tracklist
Side A: GWAR
1. Joe Bob Is Back In Town
2. Fuck This Place
3. Splatter-Fu
4. Lot Lizard
5. Gor-Gor
6. Drive-In Oath
Side B: John Brennan and the Bigfeet
1. Joe Bob Is Back in Lounge (Live at Jamboree ’23)
2. Everyone Loves Halloween
3. Beauteous Gluteus Maximus
4. Gettin’ Ripped at the Drive-In
5. The Skybar Jingle
6. Splatter-Fu (2023 Demo)
7. Up All Nightmareathon
8. We’re Getting the Fire Started
9. You’re the Glue
10. Thank You, Roger Corman / The Drive-In Oath (Live at Jamboree ’23)
GWAR’s Fall Tour Is Coming, Too
GWAR will also hit the road for the Gor Gor Must Die! tour, beginning October 27 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Florida audiences have several opportunities to witness the carnage, including Jacksonville on October 29, the Headbangers Boat sailing from Miami, Fort Lauderdale on November 4, and Orlando on November 5.
The tour also features Midnight and Mac Sabbath, with additional support varying by date.
A Match Made in Horror Heaven, or Somewhere Considerably Worse
There’s something wonderfully appropriate about GWAR and Joe Bob Briggs celebrating their respective histories together.
Both built their audiences around entertainment that embraces excess, theatricality, and the wonderfully grotesque.
And neither has ever seemed terribly concerned about whether the neighbors approve.
With GWAR and the Last Drive-In-Stein, heavy metal’s most notorious extraterrestrial monsters and one of horror television’s most recognizable personalities have found a particularly strange way to commemorate four decades of mayhem.
Honestly, the bigger surprise is that it took them this fucking long.
GWAR and the Last Drive-In-Stein arrives November 13 via Pit Records.
Official announcement and pre-orders: https://gwar.net/collections/gwar-and-the-last-drive-in-stein
Your turn: GWAR and Joe Bob Briggs on the same record. Inspired collaboration or a sign that the drive-in gates have finally opened to hell? Tell us what you think. Leave a comment.
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