Who The Fuck is Maris The Great!?

Maris the Great is the green-colored, foul-tempered, leader of the gay undead; a zombie fag with an attitude. With his trademark rant "You will die!!" he hunts the bands of the world - all in a quest to rid the music industry of those proving to be a competitive threat to his own group, Maris The Great and The Faggots of Death.

But it wasn't always that way.

With his musical roots firmly planted in disco, Maris was originally just a normal, mortal, gay man, singing for The Heterosexually Challenged - one of Denver's hottest dance bands. One night after a show, Maris went home with a stranger for a night of passion. Not realizing the man he picked up was a zombie, he was quickly assaulted from behind - all with such force, that his head ultimately went through the headboard of the bed they both were fucking on. Maris died there and subsequently was reborn a member of the undead. But with reanimation came a new mission and purpose. He stapled his gaping head wound shut, shaved his head into his trademark mohawk, added "The Great" to the end of his name and ultimately hatched a new, musical plan. Disco was out. Heavy music was in. He would now force a change of musical direction on his newly monikered band, (re-named The Faggots of Death) and take them to the heights of rock stardom! However, much to his dismay, he quickly discovered that it wouldn't be as easy as he thought. There were already other rock bands pursuing the very same goal. Millions of them. Enraged that a mere mortal group might achieve the stardom that he felt only his group was worthy of, Maris The Great devised a scheme that he was certain would ultimately enhance his band's chances of making it to the top. He would kill ALL the competition! With the lure of free publicity and the guise of promotional support, he began contacting groups to see if they would be interested in a round of question/ answer sessions for his newly erected website www.MarisTheGreat.com. Most of them happily accepted, not realizing it would be the last interview they ever gave.

Word about this controversial new website spread quickly throughout the Rocky Mountain region as some of the areas hottest acts started appearing on it, in extremely bloody photos depicting them being murdered by Maris. Since no one could possibly fathom that such executions were real, no one investigated or tried to stop him and Maris became a local legend and icon - ultimately appearing on radio, billboards, video and magazines. By the time his devious and murderous ways were discovered to be all too real, it was all too late. Maris The Great had since gone national, moving down such hard hitters as Throwdown, Kittie, Comeback Kid and Bury Your Dead to name but a few. The latter bonded with Maris so well, that they not only included the photographs of their demise in the packaging of their DVD "Alive," they also took Maris out on tour with them for Ozzfest 2005. Once there, Maris made such a zombie splash, that both MTV 2 and Fuse TV did features on him, as did popular horror rag Rue Morgue magazine. Upon returning, Maris continued his killing spree with zeal, and as of this writing, his murders can now be enjoyed by all in the national publication - Hails N Horns magazine.

With his hit list growing longer every day, and no shortage of brains and wee wee to worry about, the worlds most homicidal, decomposing, homosexual serial killer has only just begun to kill....You've been warned.

 

"Maris The Great's onstage and offstage antics take shock rock to a new level..." Rue Morgue Magazine

"Iron Maiden' got nothing on this fu@$%'n Killer!..."Hails N Horns Magazine

"Maris The Great? Yeah, great to stay at least a chain-saw's length away from him!!!!..." AMP magazine

"Ever wonder what would have happened if John Carpenter had fallen in love with a different type of camera?..." Loud Fast Rules

"Vile, disgusting and shocking as it is, maristhegreat.com is a touchstone for the music scene, a community badly in need of some champions...." Westword