THE MAKING OF IWRESTLEDABEARONCE’S IT’S ALL HAPPENING, PART 1: “STUFF N’ SHIT”
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 at 5:00pm by Axl RosenbergThis is pretty straight-forward: IWRESTLEDABEARONCE’s Century Media debut, It’s All Happening, is coming out June 2, and, as is de rigeur, the band will now be posting a series of behind-the-scenes videos on the internet.com to give fans a taste of the in-studio insanity. And, yes, I fully plan on posting each and every video.
Some people will watch this, see the band having fun, and take it as yet another sign that IWABO are ironic hipster doucheturds who don’t take metal seriously (because the memo that metal can’t be fun apparently never found it’s way to Louisiana). And those people, I say: Have fun sulking in the corner. We’ll be over here getting fucked up and having a good time.
-AR
A. thanks for putting this up. It’s cool.
and B. that song at the end has one of the most brutal parts i have ever heard where she is just screaming over and over again. So brutal
I’m not sure what is more obnoxious: these douchelords or that horrible flashing ad for the Chariot. I get it, these guys are quirky, they’re funny, they don’t make metal to make metal, they are irreverant, they like to add “funny” bits to the supposedly serious grindcore….
Which gets me, as grind basically requires an inherent appreciation and humor for the absurd. Remember a certain band in doctor outfits and medical lyrics? Scott Carlson’s legendary stage banter, fuck man even Napalm Death knew they were pretty ridiculous for the time but you can have a wicked sense of humor and still make music that has shelf life longer than the couple months indie morons and websites (and now this one, which is inexplicable) will ride them for. It’s not a crime to make metal and grindcore with a goofy sense of humor, it’s all over the fucking place. Grind + the kitchen sink is a horrendous approach and is always just neutered grind with a cool sheen and “quirks.” Cephalic Carnage did it right and now we all have to suffer from their clones who up the “goofiness” and downplay any sort of songwriting. Or shit, fuck songwriting, I haven’t heard a second of interesting shit from IWRESTLEDABEARONCE. It is straight up inane that this band has a major label deal when they ought to be relegated to Myspace along with the rest of this grating, kitschy, “expiremental” bullshit.
I’m not humorless, and these dudes just flat out aren’t funny. And that is the only redeeming quality they might have. I’m a big sucker for behind the scenes shit like this, but this was incredibly hard to watch. I spent some drunken high school weekends like this, and it’s truly embarrassing to watch something like this documented.
I digress, it’s just REALLY fucking frustrating to see this site all over this band’s nuts when for the most part you guys stick to metal that has real weight and importance. I understand you have to keep up what with sponsoring tours and all that, but how much more commercial crap are you guys going to start pimping? You can’t tell me you guys truly enjoyed that latest Slipknot, not the same people who enjoy all these random bands from Europe/elsewhere that sometimes I haven’t heard of and get hip to. Seriously, what digs?
I couldn’t have typed better !!. I think just the same Conduit
Amen.
Well said. And I’m getting pretty f’n sick of that seizure- inducing Chariot banner as well.
The guys in IWABO look like those nerdy clowns that were in stage crew in high school. You know the type: extremely obnoxious, not in the least bit funny yet constantly laughing at each other (they believe that they are HILARIOUS, but no one outside their clique is bright enough to understand their highbrow humor), attention-seeking, smelly dudes who have unbelievably ugly stage crew groupie girlfriends who they are always hanging all over awkwardly in public.
None of this would matter if their music was really cool, but unfortunately it isn’t. Their music is just like them – awkward, obnoxious, “weird” for the sake of weird, forced, sloppy and forgettable.
Maybe I’m just not smart or deep enough to “get” IWABO, but that’s something I can deal with.
AMEN BROTHA!
deres sum big words in there buddy?!
i like totaly luv this band exspessialy the brakedowns and the techno parts, theys are awesome!
and a GIRL singer!>>>?? that must be the first ever!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!
Humor is subjective. For example, some people find Dane Cook funny, while I find him ridiculously unfunny.
Musical taste is also subjective. You don’t like them at all from what I gather. Too bad other people do.
hipster bullshit! not sulking.
It is a sad day when so many people are pulled in by a gimmick that they readily overlook the lack of songwriting. This band is terrible, but because of the Emperor’s New Clothes effect, they still have fans and buzz among indie fags and the like. Of course, this still isn’t as bad as KISS.
That being said, though, KISS still had a few decent songs, which is more than can be said for this band.
before i got into more “brutal” death and grind, i liked this band for the quirky parts. now the wierd parts, and clean singing ruin any part of the song i might still be able to like. Ill still buy their new album, but shit man this stuff is pissing me off
Having fun is allowed…..trying WAY to hard to give the appearance of fun and over the top silliness is not allowed.
we know its just music, and making shitty music isn’t the worst crime in the world… but come on, these people are bottom of the barrel hipster assholes. watching them makes me sick
Fuck the haters. I’m gonna go see iwabo on friday and they are going to tear it up.
Video was kind of boring but the sound clip at the end sounded good.
fuck gimmicks fuck gimmicks fuck gimmicks fuck gimmicks… this band sucks and i like “experimental tech grind” but this shit is a bad bad joke.
Love them, cant wait for the new one with a solid lineup and good production. So far what I’ve heard sounds great, much better band then half of whats out there these days no matter how gimmicky they may be.
Why has it become so fashionable to hate this band? I never had a problem with them…. not before the “major label daze” or after.
I think people go to far into analyzing why they don’t like music… why don’t they just move along and find something that they like, analyze why they like it if they must, and be happy?
Why has it become so fashionable to love this band? That is what i want to know, especially on a site like this that normally shits all over this kind of stuff.
Most of us have loved this band since well before they were signed…just because more people are exposed to the band now doesn’t mean its trendy to like them. Maybe it just means that a lot of people enjoy listening to them? Sorry you can’t open yur mind a little bit and enjoy them, but I positive you listen to plenty of bands that many of us here find utterly terrible so we are probably even.
just listen to a Kid Hereafter in the Grinding Light. It’s grind and it’s quirky.
I don’t like the band but they seem like cool people, video was entertaining.
I have to say a few things here, and I’ll make it quick. I quite like these guys. I understand that they polarize us greatly, as evidenced by this thread. But a few questions:
Why does everyone think they’re being weird just to be weird? When did we get to be so hung up on a groups look? We don’t like what they represent/look like/act like so automatically they’re bottom barrel scum? When did everyone get so militant? I understand why people don’t like them, and that’s fine, but you would think this band literally shit in your cereal.
BTW, Conduit makes many great points, and does so without coming off like a total fuckwit. I wish I could say the same for SonOF who sounds like a hipster made off with his woman/dude/whatever. Seriously, ever hear of live and let live? You sound angry, bro/sis.
“I wish I could say the same for SonOF who sounds like a hipster made off with his woman/dude/whatever. Seriously, ever hear of live and let live? You sound angry, bro/sis.”
The whole “hipster making off with my girlfriend” comment is so random that I’ll just leave it alone.
As for “live and let live,” I agree with you. I like plenty of acts that get hated on because of their image..maybe the band is “too gimmicky,” or “too emo” or whatever other label detractors wants to slap on them. I try not to let a band or musician’s image cause me to discount their music; I always try to listen to the music for what it is, not who is creating it. Some examples of acts that I’m into that may not have the “right” image, or seem to be just generally disliked by critics and/or elitists: Slipknot (too gimmicky; commercial; not “real” metal), Mudvayne (see Slipknot), Coheed and Cambria (too “emo”; lead singer has a high pitched voice; gay), Avenged Sevenfold (too much posturing; think they are Guns N’ Roses; too commercial), AFI (see Coheed and Cambria; too commercial), etc.
The same is true in In the case of IWABO – I listened to their music before I had any idea what anyone in the band looked or acted like. I disliked their music very much, I thought it was forced, pretentious, and obnoxious. After listening to IWABO’s stuff, THEN I saw what the dudes looked and sounded like (not on their record). I thought it was interesting that what I disliked about their music seemed to reflect their personalities. Obviously I don’t know the guys, so I am basing that opinion on a one minute clip of them acting like retards. Is that fair? Probably not. Oh well.
One day a core band will come along & bridge the gap between scenes but these guys just ain’t it, no matter how many times their name is repeated.
The more paragraphs you waste on why you “hate” these guys so much, the more your just simply saying . . .
WHAA this band challenges my narrow minded views on music
WHAA these kids are famous and im not
How fucking lame are you dweebs? Are you so completely addicted to this website that Metalsucks needs to love and hate every single band that you love and hate? There are alot more important things going on in this world to hate on so much other then a band that is lucky enough to be making it, especially in a world full of you assholes.
I have spent money on IWABO and will continue to because i like thier music, and I am anything but fasionable, and I beleive that is the case for most people.
Indeed!!! This is one of the sickest live bands in existence.
THE CARL says:
April 29, 2009 at 7:16 am
The more paragraphs you waste on why you “hate” these guys so much, the more your just simply saying . . .
WHAA this band challenges my narrow minded views on music
WHAA these kids are famous and im not
actually this is far from the truth iwabo lacks substance they dont right good songs. the quirkiness is lost by how forced it sounds. lets not forget how awful that ugly bitches moaning is. she cant sing and yet she tries. another thing people have against this band is how big of douches they are. they think they are the shit. the girl “cant smoke weed cause she has an image to uphold” that is a direct quote for that scummy hoe. my friends band toured with them. they are hipster flavor of the week faggots end of story. they tried to make a combination of see you next tuesday and genghis tron but they ultimately failed to do so. for most people the most annoying thing about iwabo is how shamelessly websites like this jock the shit out of them when its hard to believe that they would like this. its seem as if its more promotional than the webmasters actually like it. anyway this band would probably have more real music fans if they didnt try so damn hard.
write good songs*
Bam.
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The reason people are complaining so much about this garbage band is because they’re name is being plastered all over this website, and they expected better. News about shit bands gets posted here all the time but they’re posted under the appropriate category: Shit Bands. This turd has somehow slipped by and its been getting rubbed in our face.
Then don’t listen to them, go on to the next article…I am sure you would enjoy the one about Creed getting back together.
no axl rosenberg, you are the doucheturds.
and then metalsucks was a hipster website.
@Keepitwolf
Are you actually trying to talk me (or people in general) out of likeing this band? Let me explain to you how music works. The soundwaves go into my ear and if it makes me smile, I like it, i download it, I listen to it more. This is not up for debate, never was, never will be. I WOULD NEVER DEVOTE A SINGLE WORD TO A BAND I DIDN’T LIKE, I JUST WOULDN’T LISTEN TO THEM.
Not every metalhead is a fan of Suffocation, but whenever Metalsucks advertises them, no one accuses Metalsucks for shamelessly promoting them, but for this “hipster” band you cry foul? Give me a break! I do not beleive this is about shameless promotion, this is Metal sucks catering to the WIDE VARIETY of fans of hard music. No one is forcing you guys to click on the link.
METAL IS ABOUT COMMUNITY NOT COMPETITION.
“METAL IS ABOUT COMMUNITY NOT COMPETITION.”
Exactly. Too bad IWABO are just hipster faggots and not actual metalheads.
Pick someone up if they fall in the circle pit, but fucking kill hardcore dancers.
Fuck scene kids.
oh god. i wasnt trying to talk anyone out of liking this band. i was explaining to you why people dont like them and that it has nothing to do with not being open minded. being open minded is giving a band you know to be utter shit a chance like i did. then after they failed at progression and showed how immature/idiotic they are thats when i chimed in with my response to your claim of this band challenges non open minds. you missed the point of my statement as i think you missed the point of iwabo music.
The point of IWABO music, wow im almost tempted to ask you to enlighten me but somehow I think its going to be uninformed, dramatic, over analyzing and negative like all of your other time wasted bullshit posts.
Let me explain something to you, this is not pop music we are chatting about. When its hard music, its all relative. Now I dont know what bands you listen too, but there are many people who would think guys who dress up in corpse paint and where midevil body armor is “immature and rediculous” or guys who “sing” about killing people, or people who go into mosh pits, etc. and in some cases their right and thats why we love it, but who the fuck cares?
You think IWABO is utter shit? COOL thats totally fine, but dont act so superior and talk about “progression” and “maturity” because your obviously too imature to realize that not every grades music the same way you do. Every single person has their own personal preference, and no one should have to feel bad about likeing it.
There are poeple in this world who like this band, get over it and move on.
This band is funny and awesome. better than all that serious bullshit
Quality is not subjective.
Real recognizes real.
I don’t recognize this…and I don’t hear quality coming from this. I’ve listened to their music with an open mind and this band is basically a constructed mess that does what a bunch of other bands do at a half-assed skill level. Now if this were just a judgment on my TASTE, then I could see a worthy argument, but the quality isn’t there and I can’t even TRY to act like there is quality.
Basically. If you were to take: Behold the Arctopus, Between The Buried and Me, Cynic, The Forgotten Archetype, Crotchduster and Genghis Tron …make them all SUCK ASS and then combine them haphazardly with a female vocalist. You would get this band.
There are a bunch of other bands that do what they try to do shitloads better than they can. This can’t challenge my “narrow minded views” on music because my mind is not narrow when it comes to music. It’s broad enough to know that this band isn’t any good.
The fact that they are ‘famous’ means nothing. Fame has never ensured quality. Fame just means a lot of people can see you. Tubgirl and Goatse are famous too, but they aren’t something people enjoy looking at.
So they have a lot of scene kids that look at them because they match their demographic and are ironic in some fashion. They also have a lot of people who enjoy them because they don’t know anything better than them. Fair enough…this band still sucks.
Their look doesn’t help matters either. It’s one thing to not take yourself seriously when you create awesome works of art…but they don’t really do anything worth keeping themselves out of the cut-out bin so it really doesn’t matter how serious they take themselves.
Also, it doesn’t matter what the MetalSucks staff likes. They can like St.Anger for all I care. As long as they still keep interviewing and reviewing real metal acts with true grit, quality and integrity, then I’ll still keep coming back.