OFF: Kyuss

[Ken Alexander]

> Is the band named after the Martian River Kyuss in the John Carter of
> Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs?

The AD&D Fiend Folio contains a critter called a "Son of Kyuss",
described as "animated putrid corpses with fat green worms crawling
in and out of their skull orifices.  Kyuss was an evil high priest,
creating the first of these creatures under instruction from an
evil diety."  They touch to cause advanced leprosy, and their worms
jump on you and burrow for your brain.