Costumed metal band is releasing ‘Berserker Mode’ coffee blend

Fans who’ve been sprayed with fake blood at this costumed metal band’s shows will appreciate that its new coffee blend is described in cartoonishly wild terms.

Concept Cafes, which recently released a signature coffee blend for hard-rock band Motörhead, is now offering “Berserker Mode Coffee” endorsed by everybody’s favorite ensemble of obscenely murderous aliens, Gwar.

“Roasted high on a pyre of smoldering destruction, Berserker Mode is a bold, bodacious java, savagely sticky with muddy molassesness and foul-fruited candy sweetness—a real teeth-grinder of a roast,” Concept Cafes promises and/or threatens. “This isn’t your average morning pick-me-up. This is coffee forged in legend, powered by Blothar the Berserker’s grievous wrath, and brewed for only the mightiest of warriors.”

The company’s lively backstory says that before becoming a rock band frontman, Blothar played a key role in coffee history: He “once roamed the icy seas in a Viking longship. Lost and alone, he was lured by a green, split-tailed mermaid, her siren song calling him to the Indonesian archipelago. But his love was unrequited, and in his sorrow, Blothar wept like a 1000-pound baby. From his bitter tears, coffee plants sprouted across the land of Java. And thus, Berserker Mode Coffee was born—a heady and powerful drink, crafted to fuel his rage before battle. Historians may claim Viking berserkers were jacked up on psychedelics, but GWAR knows the truth: it was coffee that drove them to insane battle-lust!”

Sounds like a good choice for Monday mornings. Berserker Mode will be available for online orders ($21.99 for a 12-oz. bag) starting March 10. The day before that, Blothar will appear at a release event in Orlando; attendees will have the option of participating in a blood drive.

Although Gwar does not currently appear to have any Alabama shows on its itinerary, Mobile-area fans can catch them June 20 at Vinyl Music Hall in Pensacola.