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{{quote| A huge rubber Satan has started inflatin',~~ ~~

{{quote|A huge rubber Satan has started inflatin',

He towers up over the drums.~~ ~~

He towers up over the drums.

Then pyrotechnics and stuff give a blast loud enough,~~ ~~

Then pyrotechnics and stuff give a blast loud enough,

To rattle your teeth from your gums.~~ ~~

To rattle your teeth from your gums.

This incredible set is the best vision yet,~~ ~~

This incredible set is the best vision yet,

Of our stage designer's craft.~~ ~~

Of our stage designer's craft.

And it helps to distract the crowd from the fact,~~ ~~

And it helps to distract the crowd from the fact,

That the music is really quite daft.~~ ~~

That the music is really quite daft.

'''[[Mitch Benn]],''' '''''Never Mind The Song (Look At The Stage Set)''''' }}

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* Somewhere between the monster masks, blood/semen splatter and explosions, [[GWAR]] apparently plays music as well.

** From ''[[Questionable Content]]'':

{{quote| "[Drumming is like] counting with your whole body."~~ ~~

{{quote|"[Drumming is like] counting with your whole body."

"Yeah... well, not your ''whole'' body. Unless you want to, I don't know, fart on a gong every sixteenth measure... I think Gwar do something like that." }}

* A Finnish band named Lordi. First of all every member of the band has an elaborate monster costume. When they participated in the [[Eurovision Song Contest]] in 2006 (Which they won, by the way.), there was some discussion about would their pyrotechnics be safe to use. They got to use them in the end. Videos of their song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" are easy to find in Youtube, though the compression quality is likely to render them as bloody vomit.

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** Because they are so very metal. No, really.

** "Accidentally" summons a troll? I'm pretty sure they were trying to summon it.

{{quote| "Now, we've never tried to summon a lake troll from the Finnish ''Necronomicon'', so please bear with us. Here goes..."}}

{{quote|"Now, we've never tried to summon a lake troll from the Finnish ''Necronomicon'', so please bear with us. Here goes..."}}

** That is the quote from the album, but in the original episode, they were merely attempting to apologize for a disastrous previous tour of Finland by writing them a new national anthem, with lyrics taken from the Finnish Necronomicon.

* Trans-Siberian Orchestra has one of the most impressive light and pyrotechnic shows know to man.

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* The video game ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' combines this with [[Magic Music]]: Guitar solos cause cataclysmic events, stage lights burn people and pyrotechnics do damage in combat.

* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in ''[[Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]''. Klavier's guitar goes up in a blaze when he is playing, surprising everyone, including him. He is later heard angrily asking the staff why he wasn't told. {{spoiler|It turns out that Daryan Crescend had rigged it with a remote incendiary trigger to destroy evidence of smuggling.}}

** It is also noted that the crowd felt the timing of the fire was perfect (It happened right at the lyric "Burn my love away")

* The Midnight Riders from [[Left 4 Dead 2]] are said to have the best pyrotechnics in the business. The survivors use the fireworks to signal a rescue chopper.