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WATCH AN ENTIRE IWABO SHOW FROM YOUR LIVING ROOM

 Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 at 9:54am by

If you’ve never seen IWRESTLEDABEARONCE live, you’re missing out. We’ve seen these guys and girl a few times now, including when they absolutely demolished The Bowery Poetry Club (of all places) at CMJ last year, and they are all that and a bag of chips (the kids still use that expression, right?).

Luckily for you, HardTimes.ca has an entire set from the band online right now, which you can check out below. Unfortunately the quality of the footage is sub-Metal Injection, but, still, it’s good to be able to watch the show from the same chair in which you usually masturbate.

In case I haven’t mentioned it before, IWABO’s Century debut, It’s All Happening, drops June 2 on Century, and the band is currently on a MetalSucks-sponsored trek with The Human Abstract and a bunch of other awesome bands. Get tour dates here.

-AR

Thanks to all the hep cats who e-mailed this to us!

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  • http://reaper-x.deviantart.com/ Reaper-X

    …No.

  • \m/Eluveitie\m/

    I’m getting really sick of hearing about this band…

    • Delusional

      no shit.

  • cosk…

    I hate bands who wrestle bears once. especially this one.

    • \m/Eluveitie\m/

      I think the key question is, why only once?

      • cosk…

        cause bears don’t fuck around. I always say, just don’t fuck with bears.

        • http://heavyblogisheavy.wordpress.com/ Jimmy

          They are godless killing machines, after all.

  • Senior Swanky

    I wrestled a shark once and I never got a record deal what gives?

    Fucking Amateurs

    • xCOOCOOKALx

      where’s bear vs. shark when you need em’.

  • timmah

    they’re really bad

  • http://www.myspace.com/1033metal Jackson

    that CMJ show was amazing, this one looked pretty good as well. Now only if they would come to MN

  • gnarlk

    how the hell is this shit different from waking the cadaver? christ….

  • Boob

    i love the balding guy in the crowd dead centre….

  • http://www.myspace.com/breathofmetalproductions pokesmot

    I partied with IWABO at the Ligeia release party great fucking band they stole the show
    that night for sure

  • Chris

    Just awful. Gouge your eyes out and throw them at the band awful.

  • Strapping Young Lad

    love these guys. Love how people hate em, too!

  • Conduit

    My god, enough is enough. I don’t even want to read your other posts anymore.

  • Charlie B

    Interesting band. I read up on them, and watch many of their videos. They do have a lot of energy, but I find their over the top humor tiring. Its almost like this is one big joke for them. Probably is since they came out of nowhere, and they are living it up while they are still popular.

    • http://dgmetal.org The Daily Grind

      Yeah, I get that feeling a lot. They almost seem to be mocking their listeners simply by making the music they do. I hoped they would take themselves more seriously with their Century debut, but so far it doesn’t look like it.

      • gnarlk

        what happens when hipsters start playing metal more or less…

        • Charlie B

          Hipcore.

  • TheSalamanizer

    Still, you’ve gotta love any band that comes out and plays a little Final Countdown.

  • Sammy Jewgar

    Have to respectfully disagree with your feelings, Axl. I saw these guys at the NEMHF this year, although “saw” implies that I watched their whole set. I was intrigued when the singer came out in a Furby costume, but was not impressed at all with their first song. I’m not one to give up on a band after only one song, but in this case, I should have broken my own rule. The second song was worse than the first, and I went upstairs in search of better music after the third song.

    I have no problems with hipsters playing metal (as gnarlk alludes to above), but if you’re gonna make yourself a target by playing metal and dressing like a hipster, you better do a damn good job with your music. Otherwise, people are not going to come even close to giving you the benefit of the doubt when they realize that not only is your image something they can’t connect to, but your music happens to suck as well.

  • Onedollarkatana

    I have to admit, at times that girl sounds ferocious. Other than that, this isn’t for me. Seems like there’s just too many “more technical than your mother” type bands out there to keep up with/give a shit about.

    • Brock

      …..but my mom shreds like a savage.

  • Joe

    she is a terrible singer its pathetic that people feel they can connect with this shit.

  • Brock

    Humor is the spice of life. “Oh man, a band is having fun with what they are doing. It must obviously mean they don’t take music seriously.”

    • Carter

      well obviously they’re not taking it seriously, they make garbage fuckin music.

      • THE CARL

        Yes thats called an opinion. You see there are people in this world who may think what you listen to is garbage fucking music, but of coarse you A.) know better then them and/or B.) Dont give a shit what other people think.

        I guess I would say im an AB man myself : )

  • THE CARL

    I’m sorry are “hipsters” the new emo? I get so tangled up in enjoying the actual music i always forget to keep up with who its cool to hate, because secretly im insecure and feel better being apart of a group of negativity.

    Silly silly me . . . awesome band though!

  • FUCK YOU

    IF YOUR DON’T WANT TO LISTEN TO IWRESTLEDABEARONCE THEN DON’T TYPE THEM IN THE FUCKING SEARCH BAR!

  • PB&J

    1. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all reek of shit.
    2. Whatever happened to people avoiding what they dislike rather than fucking bitching about it all day long on the internet? YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL. YOUR OPINION MEANS FUCK ALL.
    3. If you dig IWABO, enjoy this. If you don’t, fucking close the window and move on. Every second you spend fuming and venting over how bad this band is, is another second of your life that slips away being wasted on something you shouldn’t care about. I don’t like reality TV, I haven’t owned a TV for three years. Problem solved. I don’t go turn on a TV, watch the latest Survivor Uzbekistan, and then log onto the internet to bitch about it all day. I just don’t fucking bother.
    4. I’ve wasted five minutes of my life posting this, if only to maybe spark some realization in maybe one person, hopefully many more that it is pointless to stress out and whine all over the internet.
    5. Everything is a “fad”. Everything. Get over it. Do what you love, surround yourself with what makes you happy. Stop pissing all over everyone else’s entertainment because you think your opinion and view are more valuable than theirs. You don’t log onto a Art website and say that Picasso couldn’t draw a straight line with a ruler or that Van Gogh’s brushing technique was subpar. Music is no different, if its not your fucking cup of tea, don’t drink it. Music is Art, Art needs no explanation. Deal.