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The band's concerts use elements of horror and science fiction to comically enact morally taboo themes and political satire. Gwar’s brand of satirical heavy metal has thrived with their outlandish live show with large extravagant costumes and masks. But when Death Piggy noticed people leaving their shows after 'Gwaaarrrgghhlllgh' performed, the members of Death Piggy and The Slave Pit became one band and shortened its name to simply Gwar. When the people behind the two projects met, they had the idea to form a joke band called 'Gwaaarrrgghhlllgh' to open for Death Piggy.

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One project was a punk band from Richmond, Virginia called Death Piggy, while the other was The Slave Pit, a production space for a never-made movie titled Scumdogs of the Universe. In 1984, two separate projects merged together to form Gwar. Variations of the Deadmau5 logo and headdresses appear on all of Zimmerman’s albums and live performances. When the lead singer of the industrial metal band Orgy urged him to wear the logo as a headdress during performances, Deadmau5 was born. Zimmerman created the Deadmau5 logo when he was learning to use 3D modeling software. Zimmerman got the name Deadmau5-first a screen name-when, as a teenager, he fixed his computer and discovered a dead mouse inside. Joel Thomas Zimmerman, aka Deadmau5 (pronounced Dead Mouse), is a progressive-house music producer and DJ from Toronto, Canada. The Knife rarely makes public appearances and when they do they wear masks with large bird’s beaks that are similar to Venetian Medico Della Peste (plague doctor) masks. Shunning the spotlight, the duo received numerous Swedish Grammis Awards in 20, but never attended the ceremonies or accepted their awards. Though they started in 1999, The Knife didn’t get mainstream success until singer-songwriter José González re-arranged and covered their song “Heartbeats,” which was used in a popular Sony commercial. The Knife is a brother and sister electronic pop duo from Sweden. Somehow that became the topic of conversation instead of our music.” These days, members of The Locust wear skin-tight, full-body nylon suits with hoods to make them resemble insects. “We were just wearing our street clothes,” singer/bassist Justin Pearson told the Chicago Sun-Times. The Locust started out like any other four-piece punk band from San Diego, California, but when the attention started to focus on their clothing, the band changed their image to suit the music rather than their style.