HOLY CRAP, YOU GUYS HAVE TO HEAR IWRESTLEDABEARONCE
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 10:57am by Axl RosenbergA HUGE round of applause to our friends over at Metal Injection (and MetalSucks reader Vitruvian Ape!), who posted the below video for IWRESTLEDABEARONCE’s “Tastes Like Kevin Bacon,” thereby alerting me to what is now one of my favorite two unsigned bands (check out the other one here). I think Rob from MI really said it best, so I’m just gonna be lazy and cut and paste what he wrote:
“So, what’s the deal with all these new bands that put the core in grindcore with their silly long names and infectious breakdowns? There may be a bit of an overflow of these types of bands, but I declare that Louisiana’s IWRESTLEDABEARONCE are a band to reckon with. This band has a pinch of everything, grind, core, some jazz, clean vocals, and a female singer to boot! What I liked most about this band, is the balance of not taking themselves too seriously and then absolutely bringing it!”
Well said, Roberto. Your parents must be very proud.
ANYWAY, do yourselves a favor and check out the video below. Then head over to IWRESTLEDABEARONCE’s MySpace page, and then, when you’re really totally sold on what a bunch of friggin’ geniuses these fuckers are, order their 6 song EP here.
Hopefully this band will be signed very, very soon; it kills me that I don’t have a high quality mp3 of “Kevin Bacon” to listen to to my heart’s content.
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As a bonus, here’s the clip for “Ulrich Firelord: Breaker of Mountains” from the band’s self-titled EP. And, yes, I believe that is the Inspector Gadget theme song at the end.
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How anyone can find that NOISE tolerable is beyond me…
Awesome. Somebody sign these guys.
Quality band. Yeah, they lean toward noise, but hey, some bands do it well. Great use of sampling and retro theme songs (and yes, it is the Inspector Gadget theme song at the end of Ulrich – I always thought it would make an amusing metal tune).
Complete garbage. Didnt Daughters do this the right way six years ago?
Wow, I do not dig this at all.
Mixed feelings, as I usually feel about bands like this. That chick can really scream and her singing voice is great as well…the music is complex, but loses me sometimes. The inspector gadget theme isnt original to me because my friend’s band did it…IN HIGH SCHOOL! Overall i’d say they are better than alot of bands out there, but thats not saying all that much.
I can only say it again: War from a Harlots Mouth, second only to The Ocean (with whom they share the singer) when it comes to german metal bands!
Their MySpace Page.
wow, mixed reviews, killer! I don’t see the noise-core connection, when i think noise-core i think more like melt bannana or dir-en-grey. I mean it does say grind or grindcore in the post at least 3 times.
I feel they are akin to arsontists get all the girls, j.f.o.c., or bbatm, or even horse the band. I dig the whole retro-hipster infusion with grind, and i definetly enjoy the shit outta this band.
btw, i hate waxing over sub-genre labels, but i couldn’t help it
You said I have to check out IWRESTLEDABEARONCE.
You, good sir, don’t have the best taste in grind. In fact, forget my politeness. You got very bad taste in grind, and Rob from Metal Injection does and all. This isn’t even inventive, it’s: unfunny or unscary movie sample, crap mathcore, clean vocals like a bad impression of Tarja Turunen, then same mathcore tosh again.
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE: Total Fail. This shower of shite is now the failingest band around today…even surpassing Waking The Cadaver. YES, BLOODY WAKING THE CADAVER!!! And I thought I’d never say that ever, much less just three months after hearing WTC for the first time. Someone destroy MySpace before this crap gets out of hand.
Oh aye, and thank god I’m drunk now. Christ only knows what it would sound like if I was sober.
Thanks for telling me about this rubbish. I really needed it. Honest. [/sarcasm]
I completely dug it…
Nice find. This is your redemption for posting Straight Line Stitch on the site. This blows SLS out of the fuckin’ water.
i’ll agree with the mostly incoherent TOK on this one. perhaps this whole ironic use of keyboards and new wave elements (see the so called planet devouring genghis tron for more instances) is just a way of sprucing up truly overextended forms of extreme metal. i hasten to call this grind, because really, would you expect to hear anything from nasum or napalm death sound like this?
people are capitalizing on this whole fetish of grind, without actually paying attention to what made it so appreciated in the first place: a lack of bullshit, gimmicks, CAPITALIZEDBANDNAMES, etc. unfortunately, female singers seems to be the newest bulwark against criticism. female singers do not inherently make a band more original. i’ve had about enough of this kitchen sink shit, and its presentation of the metal ethos with all the acuity of a malfunctioning speak & spell. fuck wes anderson, and all that his quirky, critically regarded films have wrought.
This band does a good job at combining all the most annoying elements of music into a single song. You’ve got annoying generic female screaming, gay guitar tapping, stupid constant double bass, progressive rambling “riffs”, white jazz, techno, and Enya-esque melodies with a dash of Shakira. Combine that with no hooks, no soul, over exaggerated scene stage moves, oh look – they dress up like white nerds, what a suprise. The whole song sounds like it was written by a myspace computer program. This is the future of metal? No wonder rap dominates.
Reminds me of HORSE the band but I like HTB so I also enjoy this. I will be keeping en eye on these dudes.
i’ve already got a tee and the EP from iwabo! :D
..and they sound more like ArsonistsGetAllTheGirls then HORSEtb…
checkout this female fronted shit btw
http://www.myspace.com/sparkisadiamond
:DDD
sonuds like a band that likes a few different styles andcan play a few different styles reletively moderately well, and wanted to combine them and does a pretty bad job at it.
The musicianship is pretty substandard honestly. Perhaps they could grow into something in a few years but right now…meh.
When will bands realize using shameless 80’s references and long song titles and band names will get you nowhere but an obvious born on date.
p.s props to Erik, couldn’t have said it better.
Hmmmmmm….I’m not sure what I think of this just yet.
I was trying to find a way to describe how much I hate this music, and then I read ERiK’s comment. Yeah, what he said.
This just looks like a bunch of hipsters mocking all sorts of heavy music. Its hard to take them seriously.
whats the point anyway?
this was absolute shit
i can’t believe bands are still so delusional in thinking that writing these same old songs is worth anything. Six years ago, maybe, but the ship has past move on and make something worthwhile and new.
I’m into this kind of music but I have to agree that this band is terrible. The first song is a complete rip off of the Sawtooth Grin except those guys were serious and this band is a complete fucking joke trying to cash in on a dying music scene.
After re-listening to the EP the other day, I can see where people who don’t like this are coming from. The band does not take itself seriously. However, I think that it makes it what makes it fun to listen to. Some of the riffs are recycled, and I don’t know if I could listen to a whole CD of this. Two things I definitely do like: the band’s ability being able to switch smoothly, in most cases, between a heavy and a smooth/softer sound. A lot of bands fuck this up, here it happens almost without me realizing it. Also, there are some good keyboards and subtle samples buried in there if you listen that make songs more enjoyable that aren’t obvious upon first listen.
Ross, I’m not too sure that metal is dying. Unless you were referring to grind, which isn’t dying either. There are a lot of serious musicians who respect their music. Unlike IWABO.
For anyone who thinks highly of this band, and that no-one else can do this better… check out Birdflesh, a grind band that utilises and combines humour and grind perfectly.
http://www.myspace.com/birdfleshgrind
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I love this band. I hope on doing a show with them soon. If yall want, yall can check out my band leave a few comments or whatever at myspace.com/thehaddonfieldmassacre I really like this band though. They deserve to get signed.
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daughters did what right? haha dont make me laugh
i think that you guys are just hating them cuz the singer is a girl if it was a guy i think you people would ave a different oppinion since this type of music is viewed as an all man type thing i just think you people need to chill and if you dont like the fact that the singer is a girl just pretend its a guy
They make enough money selling their cds and merch at shows to pay the bills and pay themselves and have fun while they rack up huge hits on myspace and xm/sirrus. They all have had other bands, otherjobs, and or economics degrees even – steven guitar tap god !! They thrive on the energy of the crowd and the crowd goes apeshit for them right back. Like OK computer meets Death meets PBR tallboys it will be neat to see how their sound evolves once the acid kicks-in. .
Heard “Tastes like..” on Sirius and had to find more of their stuff. Totally dig it.
Fuck ALL the haters on this site, SO THE FUCK WHAT if this band does not sound like real pure grindcore, they fucking rule and their shows kick ass. And despite niggas not getting the real picture, they still have mad fun playing their music and not worrying about your bullshit. Obviously, this band does not give a shit about whats conventional or about what defines music. Do any of you retards have realize that this band MIGHT be joking somtimes. I mean regular grindcore sound crazy enough already, why not make it even more insane. This band fuzes alot of sound togethor, and has a cool breakdown every now and then, and somehow makes it all harmonic to a chicks voice when its not doing its grindcore thing. Thats pretty awesome.
I just laugh because an idiot like this absolutely despises Black Tide being on Interscope and a major label “forcing” success on a band. Black Tide’s members might only be 15 years old and they haven’t paid their dues, or earned any of the fame they have but at LEAST, at LEAST they don’t suck as bad as this band.
This dicksuck is actually PUSHING a talentless scene band like IWRESTEDABEARONCE, that clearly knows absolutely nothing about music and is all about a faggy gimmick….and about faggy gimmick, I mean it literally.
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE is the very definition of a crappy scene band that only a 14 year old rebellious kid (or an idiot) could get into.
The music is awful, but the first video is amusing. Still boring deathcore.
This sucks and she sings false. Damn, where did the 80′ies and 90′ies underground metal attitude go? People took their music serious which spawned countless classics within the heavy, thrash, black and death genre. Now all these new bands will be forgotten within a few years due to the fact that their is no integrity. It’s all about just belonging to some scene and try to be rebels or “special”. The music itself isn’t the motivation for most which puts them in the same category as mainstream pop. The only problem with the trying to be rebels is that it’s kind of hard to upstage for example the old black metal scene when it comes to extremes. Both musically and in the real world :P