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 2026 - 2027)

Date Concert Venue Location
Sep 17, 2026
Upcoming
Louder Than Life 2026 (Day 1 of 4)
Iron Maiden / Pantera / Danzig / Megadeth / Rise Against / Alice Cooper / Jimmy Eat World / Sabaton / Hot Mulligan / Anthrax / Skillet / Alkaline Trio / Machine Head / Suicidal Tendencies / Starset / Bowling For Soup / Fit for a King / From Ashes to New / Lit / GWAR / ERRA / Chelsea Grin / After the Burial / Currents / Metal Church / The Acacia Strain / Emmure / Mac Sabbath / The Ataris / The Rasmus / Volumes / Born of Osiris / RED / Adelitas Way / Thousand Below / Chained Saint / Zero 9:36 / Elijah / Holy Wars / Like Moths to Flames / Signs Of The Swarm / Archers / King 810 / The Violent Hour / Dark Divine / Sent By Ravens / Cane Hill / Set For Tomorrow / Make Them Suffer Show all bands
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Highland Festival Grounds, Kentucky Exposition Center Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Sep 17, 2026 –
Sep 20, 2026
Upcoming
Louder Than Life Festival 2026
My Chemical Romance / Iron Maiden / Ice Nine Kills / Jimmy Eat World / Bilmuri / Killswitch Engage / Loathe / Sleep Theory / Get Scared / Sunami / PRESIDENT / Bowling For Soup / Spite / Sabaton / Josey Scott / Chad Gray / Hot Mulligan / Dance Gavin Dance / Volumes / GWAR / Vana / The Pretty Reckless / Megadeth / Alice Cooper / Anthrax / Suicidal Tendencies / Metal Church / The Violent Hour / Pantera / Danzig / Machine Head / Mac Sabbath / Chained Saint / Rise Against / Alkaline Trio / Lit / The Ataris / Skillet / Starset / From Ashes to New / RED / The Rasmus / Adelitas Way / Zero 9:36 / Fit for a King / Currents / ERRA / Like Moths to Flames / Cane Hill / Chelsea Grin / After the Burial / The Acacia Strain / Emmure / Born of Osiris / Thousand Below / Chained Saint / Elijah / Holy Wars / Signs Of The Swarm / Archers / King 810 / The Violent Hour / Dark Divine / Sent By Ravens / Set For Tomorrow / Pierce the Veil / A Day To Remember / The Used / Coheed and Cambria / Taking Back Sunday / Sleeping With Sirens / Cavalera / The Warning / Badflower / We The Kings / Palaye Royale / L.S. Dunes / Soulfly / Lacey Sturm / The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus / Holding Absence / Haywire / Ivri / Scene Queen / Caskets / Rain City Drive / Mushroomhead / Angel Du$t / Jeff Hardy / Wind Walkers / Twitching Tongues / Powerman 5000 / Butcher Babies / Nevertel / Dry Kill Logic / Koyo / Primer 55 / Missing Link / SHOWING TEETH / Earshot / 40 Below Summer / Gates to Hell / Death Valley Dreams / Sublime / BABYMETAL / Papa Roach / Halestorm / Circa Survive / In This Moment / Chiodos / Nothing More / Lindsey Stirling / Tom Morello / Kublai Khan TX / Coal Chamber / P.O.D. / Thursday / Set It Off / Blood For Blood / Orianthi / Boundaries / Agnostic Front / Alien Ant Farm / The Funeral Portrait / Peelingflesh / Hail the Sun / Madball / Scary Kids Scaring Kids / The Barbarians of California / H₂O / Soil / Kami Kehoe / Icon for Hire / Codefendants / Texas Hippie Coalition / Emarosa / Gemini Syndrome / Shaman's Harvest / Fox Lake / Many Eyes / Tantric / TX2 / Diamante / Otherwise / Doobie / Heavy//Hitter / Tool / Gojira / Danny Elfman / The Prodigy / The Mars Volta / Mastodon / Black Label Society / Killswitch Engage / Ministry / Dethklok / Black Veil Brides / Underoath / Alexisonfire / Animals as Leaders / Thrice / The Home Team / Sleep Theory / Atreyu / Filter / Between The Buried And Me / Toadies / Escape the Fate / Jutes / Haste the Day / Holywatr / Locked Shut / I See Stars / The Word Alive / Emery / Maylene and the Sons of Disaster / Arrows in Action / Austin Carlile / The Pretty Wild / End It / Rivers of Nihil / 200 Stab Wounds / 156/Silence / Sace6 / Greyhaven / Aviana / He Is Legend / Vianova / Future Palace / Corpse Pile / Bodybox / Boltcutter / Resolve / Dreamwake / Billy McNicol / Limp Bizkit / Alissa White-Gluz / Downswing / Silly Goose Show all bands
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Highland Festival Grounds, Kentucky Exposition Center Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Sep 18, 2026
Upcoming
Riot Fest 2026 (Day 1 of 3)
Twenty One Pilots / Iggy Pop / Pixies / Rise Against / Alkaline Trio / The All-American Rejects / Sex Pistols / Santigold / Motion City Soundtrack / Joey Valence & Brae / Bayside / Tricky / 3OH!3 / GWAR / Slick Rick / Guttermouth / Fleshwater / The Paradox / Bratmobile / Mariachi El Bronx / Violet Grohl / Foxy Shazam / Teen Mortgage / DeathbyRomy / División Minúscula / Radio Free Alice / Glixen / JMSN / The Callous Daoboys / Worry Club / Slothrust / Soul Glo / Cardinals / Greet Death / Panic Shack / Almost There But Not Really Show all bands
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Douglass Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
Sep 18, 2026 –
Sep 20, 2026
Upcoming
Riot Fest 2026
Twenty One Pilots / Pixies / Nas / The All-American Rejects / Alanis Morissette / Rise Against / Tool / Pierce the Veil / Iggy Pop / 3OH!3 / Santigold / Bright Eyes / Taking Back Sunday / Morrissey / Patti Smith / Bad Religion / Elvis Costello / Afroman / Insane Clown Posse / Social Distortion / Tricky / Joey Valence & Brae / Descendents / Alkaline Trio / Thrice / Destroy Boys / Motion City Soundtrack / Pennywise / Slick Rick / Less Than Jake / Gogol Bordello / Mom Jeans. / Sex Pistols / The Chats / Twin Peaks / PUP / Yard Act / Cartel / JMSN / The Beths / Bayside / Fleshwater / Holding Absence / The Format / Teen Mortgage / Angine de Poitrine / Show Me The Body / GWAR / The Suicide Machines / Bratmobile / Sugar / Macseal / Chat Pile / Guttermouth / Mariachi El Bronx / Foxy Shazam / Slothrust / División Minúscula / The Flatliners / Melt-Banana / Brian Fallon / Good Riddance / Remember Sports / Algernon Cadwallader / Soul Glo / DeathbyRomy / Frankie and the Witch Fingers / Gurriers / Deadletter / Strike Anywhere / Panic Shack / Pretty Girls Make Graves / Arm's Length / Saturdays at Your Place / Public Image Ltd / Worry Club / Elvis Costello & The Imposters / Cardinals / Ben Quad / Sincere Engineer / Greet Death / Daisy Grenade / Dead to Me / Stomach Book / The Callous Daoboys / Glixen / This Is Lorelei / Kiwi Jr. / Murphy's Law / Joey Valence / Jejune / NoBro / Violet Grohl / Haywire / PLOSIVS / Asava / The Iron Roses / Brae / Almost There But Not Really / Whispers (TH) / The Paradox / Sex Pistols Featuring Frank Carter / Aim High (SC) / Radio Free Alice / Hot Rod Circuit / Aim High / Bowling For Soup / División Minúscula / Haywire 617 / Sex Pistols w/ Frank Carter / Vana Show all bands
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Douglass Park Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Sep 19, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Weedeater / Brat Capitol Theatre Davenport, Iowa, United States
Sep 20, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Weedeater / Brat The Intersection Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Sep 22, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Weedeater / Brat Satellite Music Hall Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Sep 23, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR Chelsea’s Live Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Sep 24, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR RADIO/EAST Austin, Texas, United States
Oct 20, 2026
Upcoming
Celebrity Skin / GWAR / Sludge
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Candilejas Los Angeles, California, United States
Oct 27, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Midnight / Mac Sabbath / X-Cops Jefferson Theater Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Oct 28, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Midnight / Mac Sabbath / X-Cops Heaven, The Masquerade Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Oct 29, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Midnight / Mac Sabbath / X-Cops FIVE Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Oct 30, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR

Headbangers Boat

Norwegian Jewel OCEAN
Oct 30, 2026 –
Nov 03, 2026
Upcoming
Headbangers Boat 2026
Lamb Of God / Zakk Sabbath / The Dillinger Escape Plan / In Flames / GWAR / The Haunted / D.R.I. / 200 Stab Wounds / X-Cops / Mark Morton
Norwegian Jewel OCEAN
Oct 31, 2026
Upcoming
Headbangers Boat
Lamb Of God / Zakk Sabbath / The Dillinger Escape Plan / In Flames / GWAR / The Haunted / D.R.I. / 200 Stab Wounds / X-Cops / Mark Morton
Norwegian Jewel OCEAN
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Nov 01, 2026
Upcoming
Headbangers Boat
Lamb Of God / Zakk Sabbath / The Dillinger Escape Plan / In Flames / GWAR / The Haunted / D.R.I. / 200 Stab Wounds / X-Cops / Mark Morton
Norwegian Jewel OCEAN
Nov 02, 2026
Upcoming
Headbangers Boat Day 4
The Dillinger Escape Plan / Soilent Green / GWAR / Mark Morton / 200 Stab Wounds / In Flames / Zakk Sabbath / The Haunted / D.R.I. / Chained Saint / Death Angel / Kylesa
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Norwegian Jewel OCEAN
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Nov 03, 2026
Upcoming
Headbangers Boat
Lamb Of God / Zakk Sabbath / The Dillinger Escape Plan / In Flames / GWAR / The Haunted / D.R.I. / 200 Stab Wounds / X-Cops / Mark Morton
Norwegian Jewel OCEAN
Nov 04, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Midnight / Mac Sabbath / X-Cops Revolution Live Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Nov 05, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Midnight / Mac Sabbath / X-Cops

GOR GOR MUST DIE!

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The Beacham Orlando, Florida, United States
Nov 06, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Midnight / Mac Sabbath / X-Cops House Of Blues North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States
Nov 07, 2026
Upcoming
GWAR / Midnight / Mac Sabbath / X-Cops
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The Ramkat Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Show Duplicate for Nov 07, 2026

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Louder Than Life Festival 2026 on Sep 17, 2026 [333-small]

Louder Than Life Festival 2026
Sep 17 - 20, 2026
 Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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GWAR / Midnight / Mac Sabbath / X-Cops on Dec 6, 2026 [460-small]

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Dec 6, 2026
 McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, United States
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Dec 6, 2026
 McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, United States
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Dec 4, 2026
 Pontiac, Michigan, United States
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Nov 17, 2026
 Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Sep 18, 2026
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Oct 20, 2026
 Los Angeles, California, United States
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Nov 23, 2026
 Seattle, Washington, United States
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Dec 9, 2026
 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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Punk
Metal
Hardcore Punk
Heavy Metal
Thrash Metal
Alternative Metal
Nu Metal
Groove Metal
Industrial Metal
Thrash
Comic
Old School Thrash
Comedy Rock
Comic Metal
Virginia Punk
Shock Rock
Virginia Metal
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Latest Setlist (08/15/2026):

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  1. Fuck This Place
  2. Crack in the Egg
  3. Have You Seen Me?
  4. Tormentor
  5. I'm in Löve (With a Deåd Dog)
  6. Lot Lizard
  7. El Presidente
  8. Tyrant King
  9. Hail, Genocide!
  10. Gor-Gor
  11. Mother Fucking Liar
  12. Pink Pony Club
  13. Sick of You

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Concerts Per Year:

2027 1 concert
2026 85 concerts
2025 80 concerts
2024 70 concerts
2023 81 concerts
2022 96 concerts
2021 45 concerts
2020 4 concerts
2019 79 concerts
2018 55 concerts
2017 89 concerts
2016 16 concerts
2015 78 concerts
2014 69 concerts
2013 74 concerts
2012 110 concerts
2011 64 concerts
2010 120 concerts
2009 100 concerts
2008 81 concerts
2007 147 concerts
2006 105 concerts
2005 139 concerts
2004 87 concerts
2003 1 concert
2002 103 concerts
2001 2 concerts
2000 34 concerts
1999 100 concerts
1998 18 concerts
1997 108 concerts
1996 79 concerts
1995 51 concerts
1994 133 concerts
1993 6 concerts
1992 96 concerts
1991 62 concerts
1990 84 concerts
1989 68 concerts
1988 31 concerts
1987 8 concerts
1986 4 concerts
1985 1 concert
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Comments & Reviews:

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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