Tag Archives: Brent Purgason

Guitarist Brent Purgason (Pustulus Maximus) parts ways with GWAR

Posted by on November 7, 2023

  Lead guitarist Brent Purgason, known as Pustulus Maximus, has announced his exit from GWAR. Purgason joined in 2012 after Cory Smoot’s passing, where he took on a new persona of Pustulus Maximus and worked on albums from 2013’s Battle Maximus up to their most-recent full-length offering, 2022’s The New Dark Ages. While not specifying […]

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Kim Dylla surprised to be out of GWAR [UPDATE: guitarist Pustulus Maximus responds]

Posted by on May 7, 2015

And it just keeps escalating. The statement released today by GWAR announcing the departure of Kim Dylla from the band after just a few months after joining came as a surprise to everyone ,including Dylla herself, according to a statement released by the singer via Facebook. It’s really nice when you find out important things from […]

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This Phil Anselmo/GWAR backstage bonding moment is touching

Posted by on March 25, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/XYJ-Ok1z46E[/youtube] Yesterday, Phil Anselmo posted a video taken backstage last month at the Soundwave Festival in Sydney, Australia. In the minute-long clip, Anselmo, GWAR’s Dave Brockie and Brent Purgason, Satyricon’s Satyr and Frost and Volbeat’s Michael Poulson headbang to Slayer’s “Angel of Death” in Down’s dressing room. There’s nothing that special about it initially, in […]

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GWAR Officially Reveal New Guitarist Pustulus Maximus

Posted by on October 1, 2012

Back in August, Dave Brockie revealed the identity of GWAR’s new guitarist, only to get humiliated by his master/alias Oderus Urungus. But this morning, slightly less than a year after the passing of Cory Smoot (Flattus Maximus), it’s been officially announced that GWAR’S new scumdog is Pustulus Maximus. In addition to giving fans their first […]

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Identity Of New GWAR Guitarist Revealed

Posted by on August 24, 2012

It’s been about ten months since the sudden passing of guitarist Cory Smoot. And though they’ve retired the character of Flattus Maximus, GWAR continued on as a four piece on the road. And now it appears that their search for a new Scumdog has come to an end. While an official statement has yet to […]

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