| CD REVIEW Iwrestledabearonce |
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Band: Iwrestledabearonce Normally I am not into completely unstructured spastic nonsense with a focus on experiment and avant-gardism (except for when there’s, for example, some Black-edged mentality behind the totalitarian execution of intolerable, and therefore mostly acceptable, schizophrenia), yet I can mention (more than) a handful of bands from Canada, Norway, France etc. that are more than worthy explorative. Such an example are LA’s quintet (Krysta Cameron, Mike Rickshaw Martin, Steven Bradley, Mikey Montgomery, and John Ganey) Iwrestledabearonce, returning with their second full release through major Century Media. D-beated Psycho-Grind, Death Metal-influenced Grindcore and grinding Death Metal, double-fist-in-ass Punk, Industrial / Electronics and Jazz / Acid, an enormous scala on vocal and instrumental varieties, socio-political lyrics, a wide range on emotions and atmospheres, it is madness, bizarity, hilarity, cynicism, a f*cked-off middle finger towards conventionality and commerciality, even though much more mainstream and catchiness in approach than before. Yeah, it is over-the-top, completely exaggerated weirdness spawn from psychotic, psychotropic or psychopathic roots, nerve- and brain-torturing, yet indeed it has so much more than most bands that try to yet not succeed to – at all. Progression overpowering evolution, you see… Beyond borders, breaking all conventional and acceptable rules, Iwrestledabearonce bring with Ruining It For Everybody something that ruins it for everybody, and I cannot but smile… 80/100 Ivan Tibos. |