FOR IWRESTLEDABEARONCE, IT’S ALL HAPPENING
Monday, April 6th, 2009 at 5:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
You know how I know IWRESTLEDABEARONCE are an awesome band? Because of how polarizing they are. Everyone who leaves comments on this site – fuck, everyone I’ve ever spoken to about the group – either loves them or hates them with a passion; they do not ever, under any circumstances, inspire a shrug. And isn’t that what you want from music? Or would you rather have Diecast’s career?
So. Sometime over the weekend, that clock on the band’s official website stopped counting down, and revealed the title and release date of IWABO’s Century debut – it’s called It’s All Happening, and it’ll see the light of on June 2. There’s also a too-brief sample of a new song, “See You in Shell,” streaming here, and AN ENTIRE NEW SONG (!), “You Ain’t Family,” streaming on the band’s MySpace page.
Two quick things:
- I love that cover art with all my heart. Awesome, awesome, awesome shit.
- Even though I don’t especially like the movie Almost Famous (A flick about 70s rock that never mentions heroin, black people or Vietnam? What’s it like in Neverland?), I love that a band that is on the cusp of being famous referenced the movie in the title of their first full length.
I’m sure we’ll have lots more updates for you as the album grows closer. For now, you can duke it out – as you always do when it comes to IWABO – in our comments section below.
-AR
This band sounds like the dillinger escape plan if puciato was a girl and they did a bunch of acid and listened to a flock of seagulls sodomize the faceless in a barn with no lube.
they remind me of an ADHD cephalic carnage or something. i think it’ll be a fun album to listen to. i’m kinda bummed i missed them live recently. i have a feeling it would have been a great show.
I really really dont like this band….
This is going to be awesome. Can’t wait to get home and give the new track a listen.
I’m willing to bet about 63% of people who hate IWABO never listened to them, or visit Blabbermouth and Lambgoat regularly and are just trying to remain prominent over the “ironic scenster fags”.
It wouldn’t bother me, except the fact that the overwhelming hate is going to turn off potential listeners ,and I really do think this band is great, and would hope that anyone that would enjoy them, enjoy them, despite the strong opinions.
I actually tried to get into these guys, and im not hatin on them or trashin em, but i just cant get into them.
*shrug*
Admittedly, I’ve only heard a little bit of their stuff, but to quote Mr. Horse (think Ren & Stimpy):
“No sir, I didn’t like it.”
@ dr. j– i have listened to them, and i fucking hate them. the only thing in metal that’s worse than this band is atilla. everything about IWABO reeks of contrived gimmickry. not saying that they’re not talented players (i wouldn’t call them musicians), but their whole schtick, sense of humor, concept of irony (in and out of the actual “music”) and everyone who likes them make me embarrassed to say that i like heavy music. just goes to show that there really is no accounting for taste.
ive never under stood why people hate on bands and say things like that… IWABO are just dooing whats fun for them to play. THe things Steven plays are strange and all over the place but its just what he likes to play. i love IWABO im from thier local scene and i dont see why they embarass you to listen to heavy music… and how do you say they are not musicians??? really thats a low blow. the flow from chaotic riffs to sing song shit is pretty amazing and not everyone can work music like IWABO has mannage to. … oolooook
No thanks
Not to my taste. The music is good, but I can’t take singing that’s all grunts and growls and unintelligible moans. It’s been done to death lately.
Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza > IWABO in Ironic name and ironic funny silly song titles. And oh yeah, better music as well.
iwabo is sick we got trashed together at the ligeia CD Release party good people sick music
fuck haters
# ceth Says:
April 6th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza > IWABO in Ironic name and ironic funny silly song titles. And oh yeah, better music as well.
you speak truth sir. IWABO is awful. listen to ghengis tron its the same shit but better. that girl cant sing for shit, this band is a joke
If I want to listen to actual experimental grindcore, I would listen to Discordance Axis.
you have shitty taste in bands. Discordance Axis come on u fuck
Too bad this cover is a rip-off of “Miss Machine”.
@keepitwolf
The same as ghengis tron? Are you fucking kidding me? They’re not even comparable in style. Keep proving the supporters right. You’ve never even heard the shit. What a fucking joke.
@AngryGeekGirl
Why so angry?
@justin
You hate something that easily? Oh and seriously, what do you listen to that doesn’t embarrass you? Metal is inherently embarrassing. I love it, but if you actually care one tiny bit about what anyone thinks, you’ve clearly lost the definition of what it is to be metal. By the way, everything is contrived. It’s all been done. Lastly, I should have known the only taste that matters is yours, and if shit is your flavor, doc j is in the house.
I’ve listened to it, and it never got past the “generic ______core” shit to me.
theyre fuckin sick. ive been listening to them for a while now and i love them.
Ulrich Firelord: Breaker of Mountains!
Can’t like em….Listened to some songs of theirs and it bores the hell out of me lol.
ok, so I went and gave these guys a listen. sound an awful lot like The Number Twelve Looks like you, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc. type bands. I guess if you jack off to Meshuggah and all the other boring super technical crap out there this must be the thing. blah. all that virtuosity is “neat” and all, but What happened to just cool songs with a killer riff and a hook? More Thrash Metal, (or even a fucking Punk story) on this site please. Fuck. give me SONGS.
I just listened to this after watching the video in the previous post (Oceano) and I fail to understand what makes IWABO good, and Oceano not.
THIS BAND Is fucking awesome
EVERY OTHER BAND THESE DAYS ALL SOUND THE SAME….AT least IWABO are trying something different….
I can name like ten bands right now that are out and shoudlve never started playing music…
broadcast the nightmare
conducting from the grave
oceano
trigger the bloodshed
better left unsaid
last house on the left
catalepsy
annotations of an autopsy
for today
within the ruins…
the list goes on…
this might be the one release im looking foward to this year…besides the infection….
and best album so far of 09 is defintly Crack the skye
Do I need to continue?
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ummm…ok all true accept conducting from the grave is rediculously awesome.
@ozzyzakk to reply to justin: troo dat
mastadon is not good. singer is not good.
uglymicrowave Says:
April 6th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
THIS BAND Is fucking awesome
EVERY OTHER BAND THESE DAYS ALL SOUND THE SAME….AT least IWABO are trying something different….
they arent trying anything different. take two tablespoons of see you next tuesday, add a dash of Genghis tron, and some shit moaning. bake for 20 mins and then you have IWABO.
shit music for shit scensters. and for all of those who arent that familiar with the tech grind genre they arent very technical. shit gimmick band
I love iwrestledabearonce and can’t wait for their full-length, but… I have to agree with Jon From NJ… cover is a total rip-off of Miss Machine.
I don’t like IWABO because they are bizarre for the sake of being bizarre, not for the sake of interesting music. In the song “Tastes like Kevin Bacon” they cut abruptly between screamo, spaz-core(?), electro, jazz, and god knows what else because they’re TRYING to be weird. Once you get past that, its tasteless cut-and-paste music – at least to my ears.
Sounds like the members of Avenged Sevenfold trying to sound like early Glassjaw, but in an ironic way.
<3 IWABO. I cannot wait for the album. IWABO is the sonic version of 4chan except not all about tentacle porn.
i like this band.
a lot.
krysta is my hero.
Awesome! I can’t wait for the album!
Ambivalent about the band but I’d point out that just because you’re a polarizing band that makes you good. I mean, how many people are still out there with Linkin Park posters in their rooms? Shit, all of nu-metal had an unhealthy devotion of fans.
Cheesy movie references to go with this ridiculous “expiremental every-genre-core?” No thanks
I saw them open for HORSE the Band last summer in NYC, expecting them to suck, and I actually ended up kind of digging their set. Then again I was horrendously, hideously shit-tarded at that show.
I’m going to disagree with what you said and say that I honestly just don’t care. Don’t hate em, don’t like em. I just really don’t care.
The only exceptions are to those who don’t have souls! APATHY IS DEATH!
Ohk kinda harsh but I can’t imagine anyone without an opinion in life! You can’t not care, seriously
This is just another cycle passing through. Everyone loves them now because they are still semi under the radar. As soon as they hit it kinda big and put out their 3rd album, half of the people on here sucking their cocks will find a reason to not like them because everyone else knows them and they are all over hot topic, and trust me, this band is destined to be an Alternative Press cover story and Hot Topic buzz band, they have all the makings of it. I dont really hate what they do but the love on this site for them is almost sickening considering some of the music that is hated on here sometimes.
Chicago Cubs’ manager Lou Piniella is in the cover art…a little right and down from center with a brown arm stretching down off his cheek.
Uh… sounds kind of interesting? But not something I would want to spend my hard earned money on. It would be cool to see them pull some of this shit off live.
Some of the guitar stuff reminds me of Buckethead.
But yeah once again for all the stuff you guys bash on here, I don’t see how you guys like this that much…
I keep posting the same shit but I will ask again? WHY DOES EVERYONE LOVE MASTODON? Seriously its boring and the singer is rotten. I dont get it and I never will. I watched them open for Slayer and wanted to slit my own wrists in hatred.
@ RayRay: My guess is….. some people don’t find it boring and rotten? Way less metal, that’s for sure… but I would imagine there are some people out there who listen to more than just metal (oh my god, I hope there arn’t too many people who ONLY listen to metal… I mean… if you hit 19 and you are still only listening to metal [or only ANY genre of music], then you need to get out more)…
I digress. Point is, it ain’t metal, but whatever it is, it’s damn good….
But hey, beauty is in the ear of the beholder….
As for IWABO… well, its fucked up enough that I can get into it…. but that’s me, I’m not really that concerned with whether or not others like it.
:D
RayRay, I saw Mastodon at scion rock fest not to long ago and to to say that they are boring live is something I just dont come within 100 miles of understanding. To each their own i guess but to say Mastodon is boring live is just something i dont get.
conducting and within the ruins destroy
I have editing the following for my own amusement.
“You know how I know Limp Bizkit are an awesome band? Because of how polarizing they are. Everyone who leaves comments on this site – fuck, everyone I’ve ever spoken to about the group – either loves them or hates them with a passion”
While I must admit that this band is actually mildly funny, and also very talented…I tend to find myself unable to find amusement in anything they do. Plus the whole hardcore/scene kid element really turns me off from the get-go, though I try not to judge music by what genre it’s in so i did give the band a legitimate shot…
I guess I find myself being one of those non-existent people who feel little more or less than a shrug when it comes to this band.
Its not how terrible this band is that upsets me its the fact that this website is all over their nuts that “polarizes” me into the HATE ‘EM group.
“HeI GuIzE ChEcK oUt ThIs KeWl BaNd, ThE SinGeR hAs TiTs So TheEY MuST Be TaLeNteD. FUcK yOu aNd YouR mOtHeR iF yOu CaN’t SeE hoW GrEat ThEy ArE~~~ ”
Garbage band, end of story.
I can’t help but listen to one of their songs and go “So it’s all one big joke right?”
Meh, I really dont care, listened to one or two songs of theirs. Still not a fan of deathcore, never was never will. Good luck to those guys.
Almost forgot! THE VOCALIST HAS TITS !!1!
I’m gonna agree with Kye and shrug
There metal bands that I love for their lack of sense of humor, like Gorgoroth for instance, and then there are bands that I love for their amazing sense of humor and this is where IWABO comes in.
I fell in love with this band from the minute i saw the video for tastes like kevin bacon. Just amazing shredding with off timed beats incredably diverse vocals and a “fuck genres” attitude. Just a real breath of fresh air for metal. This band – unlike most of the posters on this very site – aren’t trying to prove anything. They are just trying to make unique extreme music and they are totally succeeding.
iwabo = express train to awesome town!
One thing we can all agree on is that they are making waves, no big band talented or not, has gone without haters. Hell I hate slayer, there i said it, i love love love old-school metal, but for some reason slayer just doesn’t get my dick hard, sorry.
But im not out there hittin the streets spreading the gospel about slayer-hatin, if you hate it, let it be, if it really does suck that bad itll kill itself.
It’s ‘a total rip off of Miss Machine’ because it’s THE SAME ARTIST.
Bitches.
IWABO 4eva.
@ vitruvianApe: express train, indeed!
Going to see these guys on Thursday in Allentown. I’ve heard nothing but awesome shit about their live shows. And who-ever said they sound like The Number Twelve Looks Like You should die in a fire, along with that TERRIBLE FUCKING BAND. My god. Don’t ever be that insulting to IWABO. Apologize.
“This band sounds like the dillinger escape plan if puciato was a girl and they did a bunch of acid and listened to a flock of seagulls sodomize the faceless in a barn with no lube.”
is that necessarily a bad thing?
Oceano please.
People who think this band is “unique and different” haven’t heard Unexpect
But that’s because music with real vision, integrity and creativity will never be as popular as music with gimmicks
I can enjoy this band’s music, but they’re worthless in the grand scheme of things
This band is for people who like to pretend that they’re interesting and charismatic.
Those who really have no personality of their own and they’re much like all the other brightly coloured clones with brightly coloured myspaces.
This is the equivilent of someone who hates rap, but likes “Butterfly” by Crazy Town and anything by Limp Bizkit.
They normally don’t like anything remotely sounding metal. (In this case, only the distorted guitars and double bass pedals count.) but It’s got a girl, and a bunch of images of trendy scenester shit all over it. So they get this, along with their Tegan and Sara CDs.
Fuck this band, fuck this bands fans and fuck the people that this band caters to.
This dude wrestled a bear once, too. WORD.
http://i620.photobucket.com/albums/tt283/deez_nutz_69/damn.gif
all of these posts remind me of my philosophy of religion class,where everybody always has something to say and the conversations we have never go anywhere significant.Everybody has their own point of view on this band and,personally,I think we are all thinking a little too critically on this for the sake of minor reasons (scene kids,emo-core hype) that really shouldn’t matter to us as far as our taste in music goes.If something like “popularity” is really going to change your opinion of a band regardless of whether you like them or not,then I think that we start to take the fun out of just enjoying music.
Now for my opinion…I like them.
I think Reaper-X is the most sensible of us here. He hits nails on their heads here. FUCK IWABO. I’d be willing to bet that when MySpace finally finishes, IWABO will break up around the same time.
I bloody hate the first version of ‘Tastes Like Kevin Bacon’, but the final album version is even worse.
Everyone jumps on IWABO’s shit like they don’t like some shitty band somewhere. Everyone has that one shitty band that they don’t want anyone to know that they listen to so that they won’t be cool anymore. Give it up, its all fucking metal.
Sucking the teat of trendiness is not metal. It’s about as far from any fucking definition of “metal” as one can get.
In a world filled to the brim of long hair and black t – shirts, is it really being trendy? Or is it trying to be different? I have been out of the highschool horseshit for a long time . . .
I do not want to be “bad ass” I do not want to be “cool” I do not want to be “trendy” and I do not want to be “trve” or “kvlt” nor do I want to be considered “interesting and charismatic”.
I am a full time worker and student and in my spare time I listen to bands like Aborted, Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Origin, 1349, Sargeist, Gorgoroth, etc. AND I listen to IWABO, because all those bands all have one thing in common . . . They make me happy and thats all that should matter.
IWABO are okay. The polished version of “Tastes Like Kevin Bacon” is much better than the demo version.
But come on, “awesome album art”? That looks like an 8th grade art project. I guess we can add IWABO to the list of bands MetalSucks will eternally kiss up to (God Forbid and Lamb of God being in the list beforehand).
To CARL,
You listen to these guys cause it makes you happy?Now you’re talkin!
And to all the others who talk about this band being “trendy”,I don’t think any of you could clearly define for me what “trendiness” really is.Even if you used IWABO as an example of a trend,then wouldn’t you contradict yourself in the process?I mean let’s be honest,don’t we all have our own trend?You know,our own way of doing things and changing ourselves in reaction to events that take place in our lives.Isn’t metal a trend?Isn’t this website a trend?Aren’t I a trend too?
A trend is defined in many if not all world dictionary’s as a general tendency to change or a tendency to move;an oriented direction (i.e. the trend of the economy or the stock market.So I figured we all had our own trends,otherwise we are immutable beings which is clearly false.So in conclusion,what’s so wrong about this band being a trend of it’s own?
Man,I love being philosophical. :D
i love the way people on here keep throwing the word trendy around makes me laugh by the definition you guys are using it would make metal sucks trendy just because people like something doesn’t make it a trend
I fukin’ love this band!
dont like it? well dont fuckin’ listen then! its not like someones glued your stereo up with the cd in it eternally playing and i guarantee that no two people on here will like and dislike the exact same bands, why have a mar mar about it? and plus if iwrestledabadboyonce didnt make this math/death/grind hybrid the next guy would have.
suck ya mum
This band is so Genius! Keep the intrinsic melodies flowing!
I listened to them while in a friends car and I digged it. I’m not gonna lie though, the randomness does throw me off a little and in one song they had this break down that I absoluty dispised!!! I’m just sayin…