Thrash metal band Gwar decapitate an effigy of Tony Abbott onstage at the Soundwave music festival. Courtesy: YouTube/Steven Cundy

AN American band has taken political activism to new extremes after beheading an effigy of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on stage.

GWAR, an American thrash-metal band known as “the kings of carnage”, performed at the Soundwave festival over the weekend when their political tirade against the Federal Government took a dark turn.

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Dressed in elaborate medieval/gothic/who-knows-what-they-were-thinking costumes, the band used both the Brisbane and Sydney arms of the music festival to publicly decapitate the Australian Prime Minister during their show.

At the end of the set, an Mr Abbott look-a-like entered the stage only to bear the blunt of lead singer Oderus Urungus’ mighty sword.

News_Image_File: Channel [V] tweeted this pic from the Sydney arm of Soundwave festival.

So apparently one of the "bands" at soundwave decapitated a Tony Abbott effigy. The barbarians continue... — Chris Cox (@RidingIsGood) February 23, 2014

“Go the hell back to Antarctica, you’re not welcome here,” the effigy mocks.

Urungus responds with, “who the f**k is that dude?” before beheading the effigy on stage as a river of blood spits from the “carcass” onto the crowd of photographers and fans.

When asked what the band’s motivations were, Urungus told musicfeeds.com.au it was at the bequest of Australian fans.

“We were doing a lot of interviews with people from Australia, they’re like, ‘you’ve got to kill Tony Abbott’,” he said.

“I was like ‘hell yeh, let’s do it’. So we chopped his head off yesterday and then I was watching the news this morning about Manus Island and there was Tony Abbott on the news. He grew a head overnight! What kind of Prime Minister do you have? He is some kind of necrotic, vampyritic, thing-like beast, he grew a f**king new head overnight.”

News_Rich_Media: Tony Abbott effigy beheaded at Sydney Soundwave

Meanwhile, in a backstage interview with the AU Review in Sydney, Urungus kept with the tirade, describing Abbott as a “mutant” and rolling on an odd spiel regarding the Prime Minister’s ears.

“If you guys could harness the power of Tony Abbott’s ears to sometimes catch the wind and propel machines through space then time and gravity would mean nothing to you people, and all the people of Africa could eat ceasar salad all night,” he said.

News.com.au contacted the Prime Minister’s office this afternoon, but they declined the opportunity to comment.

News_Image_File: Prime Minister Tony Abbott spent the weekend in Tasmania to support the state’s Liberal campaign.

Earlier in the year the band dropped the decapitating bomb to The Brag, admitting: “there’s one victim in particular who I think is going to win over Australia forever. When this person dies onstage, it’s basically going to make the entire country enter GWAR’s thralls for all eternity.

“So we’re very much looking forward to coming to Australia and killing Tony Abbott. Oh sh*t, did I just say that?”

Previous onstage “victims” include Lady Gaga, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

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News_Image_File: Members from American heavy metal band GWAR. We’re just as confused as you.