IWABO GET URINE
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 1:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
One of these days, I’m going to write a review for Iwrestledabearonce’s It’s All Happening. Swear it. In the meantime, as you could guess, I can tell you that I love the album and think you should buy it. So, that’s the short version.
The disc is finally coming out in Europe on August 31, and the band has launched a new website as a “virtual little treasure chest.” It’s all more or less bonus stuff that can be unlocked by forwarding the page to friends – in other words, X number of forwards unlocks Y cool shit. That’s a nifty little promotional tool.
Already unlocked: a remix of the song “Danger in the Manger” by Mindless Self Indulgence’s Jimmy Urine. The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman has already remixed “Tastes Like Kevin Bacon” as an iTunes exclusive, but it was one of those remixes that barely sounded like the original song. The Urine-”Danger” remix bears (no pun intended) a much stronger resemblance to its base material. Urine basically took the electronic elements and ran with ‘em, which won’t surprise anyone familiar with MSI’s music.
Meanwhile, the band was recently soliciting opinions via twitter on which song they should use for their next music video. So I guess we’re getting another IWABO video soon. Nice.
Go here to listen to the Jimmy Urine re-mix.
-AR
This band is utter shit. I can’t wait for Ziltoid to take over on Friday, even though I only agree with him half of the time. At least we won’t have to hear how “great” bands like this are. Ugh.
Although I knew it before, MetalSucks comment boards have proved my theory that metalheads have no concept of what an opinion is.
Seconded.
My opinion is that your opinion is stupid.
At least you confirmed that it’s your opinion.
thats just like.. YOUR opinion man
Eight year olds, Dude.
Lemme tell YOU somethin’, pendejo!
Really? My opinion is that both your opinion and Axl’s opinion on this matter are disagreeable. Axl and the MetalSucks crew definitely help spread the word about bands who I think are great; this band, however, is utter shit, IN MY OPINION.
I guess you failed to recognize the concept of my opinion, so step off your high horse and go fuck yourself.
No where in your post was it evident that you were voicing an opinion. You were voicing fact. That my friend is elitism and pretension. Now, go listen to Necrophagist and suck my fucking cock.
if you can’t tell the difference between a fact and an opinion without having it clearly spelled out for you, you should go back to elementary school. (that was an opinion, did you catch that?)
In my opinion, it would get really annoying if after every opinion we voiced, we would have to say “in my opinion.” In my opinion, legitimate conversations can lose all their steam as soon as someone starts saying “that’s just your opinion!” instead of providing a rebuttal. It is my opinion that it is a fact that you have douchey notions about opinions.
Where in my post did I state, “it’s a fact this band is utter shit”? Oh, wait, I didn’t say that anywhere, did I? In virtue of this, an educated person can and should deduce that what I said was a matter of personal opinion. If you took it as fact then I suppose you’re at fault.
And you know what pretentious is? Assuming to know the character of a random person on the internet based solely on one comment he or she made in response to a blog. No, I do not listen to Necrophagist, asshole, so why don’t you pop in your iwrestledabearonce cd (since you clearly have an objection to my OPINION of them sucking, which is more likely than not the reason you started spewing your nonsensical rantings in the first place) and piss off.
Oh, and just to make one thing clear…
FACT: You’re a total fuckstick who clearly cannot differentiate between opinion and fact, thus you bitch people out for no good reason other than boredom and logical ineptitude.
@syclonus – thank you for pointing that out to captain oblivious.
@Harry – couldn’t have said it better myself.
Ah, wonderful, I was hoping I’d walk into a shitstorm when I got back.
“Where in my post did I state, “it’s a fact this band is utter shit”? Oh, wait, I didn’t say that anywhere, did I? In virtue of this, an educated person can and should deduce that what I said was a matter of personal opinion. If you took it as fact then I suppose you’re at fault.”
Explain to me the difference between popping off and saying “This is utter shit” and “The fact is this is utter shit”… that would be like saying “This shit is brown” or “The fact is this shit is brown”. You’re still essentially stating the same thing, suggesting that no one on earth could find this band pleasing, which you’re certainly entitled to THINK and be OPINIONATED about, but last I checked it’s Ziltoid and not you who is the harbinger of all things good in metal (puke)… which leads me to my next point…
“And you know what pretentious is? Assuming to know the character of a random person on the internet based solely on one comment he or she made in response to a blog. No, I do not listen to Necrophagist, asshole, so why don’t you pop in your iwrestledabearonce cd (since you clearly have an objection to my OPINION of them sucking, which is more likely than not the reason you started spewing your nonsensical rantings in the first place) and piss off.”
I’m going to go ahead and assume that you completely missed the fact that the minute you spent typing that paragraph ended up in a flaming contradiction. Ok, so you don’t like Necrophagist. Cool, that’s fine. But you’re acting (like many others here) like an ostentatious douchebag fan of legit (see also: kvlt, tr00) of extreme metal who knows what is and isn’t good. That was my point… not because I enjoy IWABO, in fact, I strongly dislike them, probably as much as you. So obviously, you’re really not all that against people assuming they know the character of a person on an internet message board cause you did the same thing right after you ranted. Congratulations on fucking that one up.
Essentially, I randomly chose you to get angry at cause I operate by the “if you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say it all… unless provoked” mantra. You’ve now proved that you were an apt choice. Thanks.
(And to the other two… I’d rather not go back to elementary school or state what my opinion is everytime… Because the point wasn’t that I can’t differentiate between opinion and fact, but that I fucking hate pretentious assholes that start off comments with “This band sucks” or a derivative there of. But thanks for your concern.)
“Explain to me the difference between popping off and saying “This is utter shit” and “The fact is this is utter shit”… that would be like saying “This shit is brown” or “The fact is this shit is brown”. You’re still essentially stating the same thing, suggesting that no one on earth could find this band pleasing, which you’re certainly entitled to THINK and be OPINIONATED about, but last I checked it’s Ziltoid and not you who is the harbinger of all things good in metal (puke)… which leads me to my next point…”
Ok, smart guy, how you inferred my statement as being a suggestion of no one on earth finding the band pleasing is beyond me. Obviously, the band has a fanbase and my comment wouldn’t have ever been made if Axl didn’t mention being a fan of them in the first place. So, you read far too deeply into my statement and came to your own twisted and moronic conclusions. And, yes, I am entitled to think and be opinionated about who and what I see fit; you’ve got a problem with that? Well, as I said before, you can go fuck yourself. You also fail to see the irony of you being just as opinionated as anyone else by feeling the need to comment on my comment in the first place.
“I’m going to go ahead and assume that you completely missed the fact that the minute you spent typing that paragraph ended up in a flaming contradiction. Ok, so you don’t like Necrophagist. Cool, that’s fine. But you’re acting (like many others here) like an ostentatious douchebag fan of legit (see also: kvlt, tr00) of extreme metal who knows what is and isn’t good. That was my point… not because I enjoy IWABO, in fact, I strongly dislike them, probably as much as you. So obviously, you’re really not all that against people assuming they know the character of a person on an internet message board cause you did the same thing right after you ranted. Congratulations on fucking that one up.”
Actually, I didn’t miss the point at all. As I was writing it last night, I immediately realized I was contradicting myself but I didn’t feel like taking 2 more minutes of my time to explicate the details of said contradiction to further prove anything to you. For the record, I enjoy all types of metal and I couldn’t care less if a band is “extreme” or “brutal” or whatever. I’ve never used those stupid fucking abbreviations (hell, I don’t even know what “kvlt” means, so sue me) and I do not judge bands on how heavy or technical or melodic or groove oriented they are; I judge bands solely on whether they sound good TO ME. And, as you so clearly pointed out, I am entitled to do so. Most of the time I abstain from posting shit like “this band sucks, etc”, but my dislike for iwrestledabearonce is strong enough to have warranted posting a mindless judgment call, the likes of which generally annoy me as well. I was forced to sit through one of their god awful live sets before ever hearing their recorded music and it all sounds terrible to me.
Now that this has essentially deteriorated into the nonsense taking place on the blabbermouth boards every single day, I’ll be the one to say it’s over.
Good, because I’m done too. I’m gonna assume that neither of us get into internetz fights like this often, so we’ll call it a draw. And, to say my peace, since I try to be the nice guy here, I appreciate knowing that there’s other people who understand metal like I do; to be honest, I only use the abbreviations because it seems to strike a chord with others here, and because I attempt to inject humor… clearly I’m not very good at that.
Anyway, cheers.
Agreed… This band plays OFF of the fucking drums… They’re so full of shit… I hate the fucking deathcore reviews on this website.
Cue Mr. Omniscient’s whine fest.
Oh, I’ve failed to mention this on several occasions, but why do we get press on female vocalists from bands like IWABO and Arch Enemy here, but never hear any shout outs to Light This City? (I know they’re broken up, but Laura was better than nearly every frontlady out there, imho).
True. They were probably the second most underrated band of the decade after The Nemesis Theory. Facing the Thousand was a great album.
They just nailed the melodic american death metal formula. Their stuff was pretty predictable but the guitar melodies were actually pretty damn original and I still thoroughly enjoy the dual vocals that Laura did on the albums.
finally some people who have heard of light this city. they were so fucking unknown but so good. i was so pissed when they broke up.
I was always under the impression that because the were on Prosthetic that a good number of people knew about them. For how solid they were, I agree that it’s odd that not many people seem to care about them.
I love Facing the Thousand, Stormchaser was meh. But while we’re on the topic of LTC has anybody heard Laura and Ben’s new project, “Heartsounds”? It’s pop-punk but it’s not bad.
fuck…. the…facts
I personally really enjoy IWABO, even though I can see where a lot of people would just associate them with trendy “breakdowncore” or ironic metal. In my mind the biggest difference between IWABO and most of those bands is that IWABO actually have good song structure and despite joking around a lot and having fun, seem to be a serious band.
My problem with bands like IWABO is they can’t fucking decide if they wanna be spastic, shitty deathcore or whiney, electronica emo crap… someone tell me how this kind of style still squeaks by with a fanbase…
That’s not the biggest problem with IWABO… the REAL problem is that they just suck at music. If you listen to their songs they will often play OFF OF THE DRUMBEAT. What the fuck is the point of having a drummer if you’re not going to follow him? That’s not even a cool polyrhythm.
Oh, and the chick can’t scream worth a dime. And the guitar players are so uninventive my little sister who just picked up the guitar could probably strum a few chords more interesting than their “songs”.
IWABO isn’t as nearly as bad as everyone makes them out to be, but with the same token they aren’t nearly as good Metalsucks makes them out to be.
Recycled Cephalic Carnage riffs, infused with electronica and a healthy does of “hilarious” TOTALLY RAAAANDOM humor that I’m sure countless of Hot Topic shoppers get wet over. Nothing to burst a blood vessel over.
+1 on the nick.
This is pretty much the definitive answer for me. I like them, though. I’ve been going to all of their TN shows for the last two years in between catching Goatwhore and Death Threat and all that cool shit.
They should really make a video of The Cat’s Pajamas, though. It’s one of the few songs that doesn’t have incredibly shitty clean vocals and blendered track mixing.
Also, the singer’s head looks fucking huge in that picture.
I honestly can’t understand why anyone would listen to this group of posers. Their music is utterly awful, their vocalist sounds like she’s screaming out of her ass. I cannot for the life of me gather how they got on the billboard 200 other than people have no taste in music at all.
You seem surprised to see something bad on the Billboard charts. Why, though, I am unsure.
For the record, I think iwabo are okay. Don’t care too much for them, but I don’t have much of a problem with them. They have great videos and song titles, though.
I’m not saying I’m in love with this band, but ONLY on a metal chat board will people bash a band for being too talented, or encompassing too many different styles. It’s like the curse of Psyopus. Great band. Amazing musicians… I mean AMAZING. I just don’t listen to them very much because the end result is hard to listen too. IWABO is one of those bands (like Psyopus) that I would jump at the chance to go see live and get the chance to watch virtuoso musicians do their thing, but I’ll probebly only listen the the album once or twice.
I guess I can agree with that. However, my analogy is that you don’t hear anyone trying to justify bipolar disorder of schizophrenia as a stroke of dynamic genius. That’s what I find in bands like IWABO and Psyopus. Talented and in some ways slightly ahead of the curve, but just far to ambitious to even begin to be all that enjoyable.
Psyopus is just as awful as IWABO.
Psyopus is fucking great. Burning Halo is a monster.
Only under the condition that your ears are defective that I would consider that statement to be true.
And my short rant above suddenly bursts into a shitty pile of flaming dung.
agreed on psyopus, chris arp is a virtuoso musician. however, IWABO has nothing to do with virtuoso musicians.
Being able to play technically doesn’t mean anything if you suck.
Totally agreed… IWABO doesnt do anything “technical”… hell they’re barely adept.
It is my opinion that IWABO blows hard.
:D. I’m not sure whether to be proud of myself or not.
Clearly, you shouldn’t be.
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IWABO IS THE SHIT THE THINGS I WOULD DO TO THE SINGER YUM!
Nice to know that you have a loving girlfriend… oh wait a minute….
Guess I’m in the minority, but I like the band and their music. While I think they are a little immature and try way to hard to be ‘funny’ in their interviews and such, I like the song writing and mix of various styles in their songs.
Yeah, I pretty much agree with this. Not so crazy about the “image” that they are pushing (tad too hipsterish for my tastes)…. but the music is more interesting then a lot of other stuff around these days.
Third this, I loved their Ep and Album have them both in my room, signed. I can say i love them to death. However they sometime try a bit to hard to be funny….
I like I Wrestled A Bear Once, and the more “pure” metal heads they piss off the more I know they are a truely progressive minded and talented metal band.
Hears a hint: Like their music or not, the logical fact is that NO POSER would or could put the amount of practice, skill, time, and orchestration in such music.
disagree. posers put an awful lot of time and energy into posing. Also, you can’t really call a statement of what someone ‘would’ do a ‘logical fact’.
Remember jada pinkett-smith’s band, wykked wisdom (or whatever they were called)? Posers. Posers who obviously spent a lot of time practicing.
case closed.
no i do not remember jada pinkett-smiths band.
Haha, yeah you kinda shot yourself in the foot with the Jada Smith reference.
it’s fucking hilarious, google it and you’ll see… best example of posers ever
Love this band, and psyopus, so I guess that kind of shows where my heads up. Also new Lye Bye Mistake is coming out soon, hopefully MS does some coverage on that
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you’re fucking kidding me. you know this band is a joke, right? how you can even put psyopus and iwrestledabearonce in the same sentence is beyond me.
you just put psyopus and IWABO in the same sentence….
anyways if youre implying the band themselves do it as a joke thats just plain ignorant and wrong, compared to most of the “metal” releases out today theyre an amazing band and arent just rehashing the same thing every other band has
I just dont get what people see in this band?
i like em.
like them or not, their 15 minutes will be up soon enough.
Complaining about “image” and appealing to “hipsters” and “scene kids” is for people who are still butthurt over not being popular in high school.
Who gives a shit about how musicians dress? They’re not wearing magical gauntlets of +5 unlistenability, people just wear what they think looks good and what feels comfortable on them. Besides it’s not their fault that their “image” attracts hipsters or what have you, people should be mad at the scene kids for listening to them strictly because of what they look like. A band has no control over who their fans are.
Well said sir, Well said!
+1 . . . uh epic win . . . you get the point.
this bands awful
I can’t stand IWABO… I used to love MSI, and still dig their stuff, but they’ve been on the decline since Frankenstein Girls.
Well, The new IWABO album is ok. Some songs are good, others not so good. Kinda hit or miss, but it does have a few good tunes though.
“unlocked by forwarding the page to friends – in other words, X number of forwards unlocks Y cool shit”
Sounds like Facebook. Except on Facebook you get quiz and poll results by forwarding to friends, with this website you get crappy extras from a crappy band. I can’t wait to get my new IWOBIWAN buddy icon!!
I was hoping someone had hit them with a bottle of something.
iwrestledabearonce = Angsty tweeny music.
It’s one thing to throw everything and the kitchen sink into a composition.
Completely different when you throw everything including the kitchen sink into a composition half-assed and expect people to respect you because “It’s totally our art and we’re passionate about it too.”
Well that guy who killed himself watching Bjork videos was pretty passionate too, but nobody is lauding him as anything great.
Be artsy all you want…the quality just isn’t there.
It’s All Happening sucked dick.
the band is garbage, but i would totally fingerblast the shit out of that singer.
i’m still convinced that iwrestledabearonce is just a joke that some hipsters are trying to pull on the whole of metal.
I love this site, most of the time. But i gotta say, the fact that you like this band almost makes this site null and void. Opinion or not, this shit is garbage. FUCKIN SHIT its terrible dude!
Fuck this garbage band three times in the ear with a rubber dick…
One word: OTEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Jimmy Urine remix might have been tolerable, if it weren’t for the vocals. But that chick can’t sing, and she can’t scream.
Im going to ignore the comment about her scream because thats less of an opinion and more of a childish dig. Thats like calling Leanardo Da Vinci a bad painter because you thought the Mona Lisa was a bitch.
As for her singing though, I dont see it as a question of good or bad, its kind of like you get it or you dont. For instance, with Kurt Cobain, or Billy Corgan. Alot of people dont like their voices and thats fine its a matter of preference and opinion, but it doesn’t mean they cant sing. I personally do like her voice, it has a unique personality to it.
Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan can both match pitch accurately. They can sing fine. The timbre of the voice is a completely separate issue from its pitch.
Well, her screams are weak and ill-fitting to the music, and when she goes back to the clean vocals, she’s off-key and can’t carry a tune.
If you like it, that’s fine… but I can’t stand it.
Are you commenting from seeing her live, or from what you have heard from the album?
From what I’ve heard from the album. I sure as hell wouldn’t pay money to see them live.
fuck you all.
Weak screams, huh? wow. suck the fuck on it. no guy can sound like she does which is why its so good. idk light this city but im gonna look them up. until then, that chick is the best vocalist metal has ever seen.
and her screams are out of key?? dude, they wouldnt produce it if they were. her singing is fine. kurt cobain’s voice follows the same concept. i dont like it but whatever man. its not about that. its about how she wanted it to sound.
this band is about as unique as metal is gonna get without not being metal. its just a mesh of sound, and whether you like it or not its what they wanted to create, much like abstract art.
” the band asked me not to read this, but by god im going to anyway, because i worte it! i fucking love this band! they are the best band EVER. ladies and gentleman, DIE”
it doesn’t matter if it’s “metal”or not. it’s good music. fuck those trend chasers in “metal”. they think they have the lock down.