IWRESTLEDABEARONCE Announces 'Musical Shift' To Black Metal[views:18184][posts:158]_____________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:41pm - Alx_Casket ""] http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermo...aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=158257 Known for its relentless touring and one-of-a-kind, fearless live show, IWRESTLEDABEARONCE — the Shreveport, Louisiana quintet now transplanted to Los Angeles, California — has announced a change in musical direction. The group's foray into black metal is exemplified by its newly designed logo and band photos. "We were sick of getting lumped in with 'scene' and 'whatever-core' bands, so we decided to embrace our roots and just go straight black metal on the new album," says guitarist Steven Bradley. "I'd say 90 percent of the new record is straight-up black metal, so we had to change our image to match... Because, of course, that's just as important, if not more so, than the music." [img] [img] [img] |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:44pm - Alx_Casket ""] troll content? you decide. In any case, this is good news for hipster black metal-- They're not the target anymore. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:45pm - arilliusbm ""] That's it. I'm done. |
| _______________________________ [May 17,2011 10:48pm - Lamp ""] Anyone else feeling up for a rousing game of duck duck goose right about now? |
| _________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:49pm - xmikex ""] Tits or GTFO. |
| ____________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:50pm - AMOROK666 ""] arilliusbm said:That's it. I'm done. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:52pm - Alx_Casket ""] True black metal fans don't realize that this is exactly what the genre needs. More humor, more hate. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:54pm - arilliusbm ""] [img] |
| ______________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:56pm - Randy_Marsh ""] more like i wrestled a poser once |
| __________________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:58pm - arkquimanthorn ""] wouldn't surprise me if they listened to black metal. also, whooo giiivess a fuuuuuuckkk |
| _______________________________________ [May 17,2011 10:59pm - goatcatalyst ""] AIDS has a soundtrack |
| _______________________________ [May 17,2011 11:00pm - Slag ""] Your genre was/is/has been a joke for years. Get over it. Who gives a fuck. Listen to music, care less. |
| ______________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:00pm - Sacreligion ""] Wat |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:03pm - arilliusbm ""] nothing wrong with standing by what you believe in. and I hate to see bands like this make a mockery of the genre, regardless of what the music sounds like. black metal is the only genre of music that I had held a conservative value on, but alas, that has now disappeared within the past 3 or so years. eat it up, USBM. once a joke, always a joke. |
| ______________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:06pm - Sacreligion ""] If I started a true BM band that burned down churches would that make you feel better? I feel all BM kids are pretty much posers. |
| __________________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:08pm - arkquimanthorn ""] some random kids from california put on some corpsepaint, jim swears off metal music, for real this time. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:09pm - Alx_Casket ""] jim will quit rttp at least twice in this thread alone, by the end of the month only caring and then walking away saying you don't care is trve |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:10pm - Alx_Casket ""] j/k bro <3 |
| ______________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:10pm - Randy_Marsh ""] thats why i like bands, albums and songs, not specifically genres of music. bands like these dont have any musical inspirations except for genres of music. |
| ______________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:12pm - Sacreligion ""] Correction: All BM kids ARE poseurs. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:13pm - arilliusbm ""] no. what would make me feel better is if people understood the aesthetic and raw emotion that goes into good black metal. arguably, it has been dead for years, but there are certain bands that capture the proper feel in which it should encompass. Sadly, it is a lost art, albeit, still a legit genre of music. Horrible analogy, but consider old school hip hop compared to today's hiphop. there's no fucking difference between what happened to black metal and what happened to hip hop. the underground still thrives in both genres, but everything is generally watered down garbage with people that just don't get it. I still enjoy black metal occasionally and spin a lot of the classics, but I don't get boners over it anymore like I used to. I'd argue that 85% of black metal sucks.. but when speaking in USBM terms, that number jumps up to 99%. i've already said my 2 cents 1,000,000 times on this board, and some of you can take it at face value or just plain laugh at it. frankly I don't care anymore; most metal is LOL worthy now. give me metal from the NWOBM up until the late 90s and we'll call it even. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:20pm - Alx_Casket ""] I see your analogy, but even the underground/purists must progress in order to stay contemporary. In terms of hip hop, if Kurtis Blow tried playing a show in present day, he would be laughed off stage. As for USBM vs. european bm, there are a good deal of decent bands. I wouldn't say it's 99%, but it usually does suck more than a given bm band from across the pond. You can blame that on the internet as being the primary source of inspiration for nowadays bands, or blame something else. It doesn't really matter because bands that suck will either die out or get lumped into pay-to-play shows and die a slower painful death. Good music can reach more ears than ever, given our current electronic social mechanisms. The effect is good and bad, but the fact is that it perpetuates in people's mindshares more than if it never reached their ears in the first place, which is what keeps the underground alive in the first place, right? I stand by file sharing 100%. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:24pm - arilliusbm ""] Answer me this, Nietzsche, what is 'contemporary' in black metal? Cross-genre ing styles? Or being pure to the roots? Does it even matter with what is considered 'contemporary' ? and lol @ making this into a conversation about file sharing. I've been file sharing since Napster and have never stopped. But I've ALWAYS preferred physical copies to electronic copies. There's no question on what is the better one. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:29pm - Alx_Casket ""] Contemporary refers to stuff that's coming out now that is lumped into the black metal category. The word refers to the current time period, nothing more. And I wasn't making this into a file sharing conversation, just saying that file sharing and the internet have been invaluable tools in getting music into the hands of people way beyond the normal "hard copy" scope of things. Quality-wise, I agree that hard copy is better (obvi). |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:31pm - arilliusbm ""] I would argue that black metal ran into a brick wall in the 90s and shattered into a bunch of little pieces. Since then, kids have been picking up the pieces and pasting them with other pieces of shattered genres. What we have now are cross-genre bands which deem themselves original, and in some cases they are. But from an artistic perspective, black metal in and of itself can no longer progress as a genre. You either are influenced by the black metal sound and aesthetic, or you are straight up worshiping the bands/gods of old. Music has been dead for years. Wake me when a new genre arises - something that is fresh and does not require rehashing and pasting of other genres. (that's not to say I don't enjoy some of those bands that do) |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:36pm - arilliusbm ""] Only being a pessimist is real. |
| ______________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:36pm - Randy_Marsh ""] arilliusbm said: But from an artistic perspective, black metal in and of itself can no longer progress as a genre. You either are influenced by the black metal sound and aesthetic, or you are straight up worshiping the bands/gods of old. i enjoy the aesthetic of black metal quite a bit and i enjoy many older bands. i see nothing wrong with this. what i was saying before about the genre of music is that I think it is stupid to want to play a certain style of music just for the sake of playing that style of music. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:38pm - Alx_Casket ""] Ok, I will let you know when a new genre arises that doesn't infer anything from other genres. LOL And your argument is acknowledged by other musical critics, many of which have described the progression of the black metal sound as broken into 1st wave, 2nd wave, etc. In the end, genre talk is a fruitless battle because a lot of the bands out there aren't genre defining. That is, to categorize them, you will get a different answer depending on who you ask, and possibly a mash-up of genre labels. Like the "blackened ___ ___ ___ death ____ ___ metal" bands. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:38pm - Alx_Casket ""] @mike: tits or gtfo |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:39pm - arilliusbm ""] I might add that I HATE when bands change their sound and/or image after they've already established what they are. EXAMPLE: Abigail Williams Fuck that band. I saw them not even 5 years ago and they were shitty deathcore with some broad on keyboards. Now they're black metal? Fuck you. Fuck all of you. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:41pm - Alx_Casket ""] Ulver. Mundanus Imperium. <-examples of the opposite effect still being quite good. I never got into abigail williams because I remember seeing them at some palladium fest and they were shitty, then I heard they became black metal and I checked them out again. Still wasn't feeling it, but I wouldn't generalize based on that band. Not everyone in black metal bands you like started off playing black metal. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:47pm - arilliusbm ""] Alx_Casket said:Ok, I will let you know when a new genre arises that doesn't infer anything from other genres. LOL As dumb as it sounds, I stand by that statement. Granted, art is always borrowing and progressing from earlier styles and genres. Any person who has studied the history and development of Art and/or Classical music would know this. But, looking at the big picture, what is unique to me are the paintbrushes (musical instruments) we are given. There are hundreds of them. Needs moar black metal without distorted guitar or rock drums, but with 100% other instruments. Alx_Casket said:And your argument is acknowledged by other musical critics, many of which have described the progression of the black metal sound as broken into 1st wave, 2nd wave, etc. In the end, genre talk is a fruitless battle because a lot of the bands out there aren't genre defining. That is, to categorize them, you will get a different answer depending on who you ask, and possibly a mash-up of genre labels. Like the "blackened ___ ___ ___ death ____ ___ metal" bands. Agreed. The bands that had established black metal for what it WAS, deserve the credit by being labelled into a certain niche. Today, however, genres are nothing but a joke because of the meshing. |
| ___________________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:47pm - MillenialKingdom ""] This has to be a joke. My friend Gregg is going to kill people. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:51pm - arilliusbm ""] Alx_Casket said:Ulver. Mundanus Imperium. <-examples of the opposite effect still being quite good. I never got into abigail williams because I remember seeing them at some palladium fest and they were shitty, then I heard they became black metal and I checked them out again. Still wasn't feeling it, but I wouldn't generalize based on that band. Not everyone in black metal bands you like started off playing black metal. Agreed, although there's a big difference in going from something respectable, and going into something even more respectable in its own right. I didn't start off playing black metal. I don't expect anyone else to, either. |
| ________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:53pm - Pires ""] I just hope those pics are photoshopped. |
| _______________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:54pm - BlackoutRick ""] arilliusbm said:[img] I just literally fell off my bed laughing. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:54pm - arilliusbm ""] That being said, i've got to head to bed. no more responses from me tonight. I hope there some thought-provoking posts come morning, because this board lacks balls now and is all nonsensical bullshit. Just look at MillenialKingdom. Dude's the biggest troll ever. I'm purely convinced he doesn't exist and is merely RichHorror laughing behind a computer screen, naked and drinking beer. |
| _____________________________________ [May 17,2011 11:55pm - Alx_Casket ""] arilliusbm said: I didn't start off playing black metal. I don't expect anyone else to, either. And if Abigail Williams or IWABO just so happened to actually make good black metal, would you give it a chance, or would you judge it before listening like so many other closed minded people out there, based on what they've played in the past? That's the crux of what I'm positing. Like if everyone who hated your 8-bit stuff heard you decided to get into some black metal band and said "fuck that guy, it'll be a bunch of beeps and whipperclipper sounds." Aye, bedtime for me as well. make some room for me in there. |
| ____________________________________ [May 18,2011 12:01am - narkybark ""] Call me amused, but I really want to hear what this re-imagined mess is going to sound like. There won't be anything BM about it, it'll be just image. |
| _____________________________________ [May 18,2011 12:01am - arilliusbm ""] no. i don't give much black metal a chance. like deafheaven for example. decent music with too much reverb, but i can't take it seriously. it's nothing but a joke to a genre in which I used to hold dearly. and haters gonna hate. ive been making computer music far longer than ive been playing guitar, and could give a rats ass if some black metal fag called me a poser for it. there's nothing to be insecure about with music, and most BM fans are insecure little pussies who have no life. at least, they used to be. who knows, It's all different now. |
| ______________________________________ [May 18,2011 12:01am - Randy_Marsh ""] Alx_Casket said: arilliusbm said: I didn't start off playing black metal. I don't expect anyone else to, either. And if Abigail Williams or IWABO just so happened to actually make good black metal, would you give it a chance, or would you judge it before listening like so many other closed minded people out there, based on what they've played in the past? That's the crux of what I'm positing. Like if everyone who hated your 8-bit stuff heard you decided to get into some black metal band and said "fuck that guy, it'll be a bunch of beeps and whipperclipper sounds." Aye, bedtime for me as well. make some room for me in there. i think everyone gets what your saying alex, but IWABO will always be and is just straight faggot shit....I mean there's no way in hell I could ever get past the name alone and aside from that the music is actually shit. |
| _____________________________________ [May 18,2011 12:03am - arilliusbm ""] and so be it, if they play "good" black metal, then more power to them. |
| ___________________________________________ [May 18,2011 12:27am - MillenialKingdom ""] arilliusbm said:That being said, i've got to head to bed. no more responses from me tonight. I hope there some thought-provoking posts come morning, because this board lacks balls now and is all nonsensical bullshit. Just look at MillenialKingdom. Dude's the biggest troll ever. I'm purely convinced he doesn't exist and is merely RichHorror laughing behind a computer screen, naked and drinking beer. Why you dragging me into your drama? |
| ____________________________________ [May 18,2011 12:28am - EL OH EL ""] at DIS thrud. |
| _____________________________________ [May 18,2011 12:33am - arilliusbm ""] Being a pessimist asshole about a newly formed poser black metal band and voicing my opinion on the matter is "drama" ? Lest we forget that whenever you defend yourself and your religious beliefs, you are invoking drama upon yourself - more than anyone else that posts here. I'd think it's time you rethink what drama is, or at least reconsider the reasons on why you're an active poster on this site. I speak in realistic terms, and try to retain a voice of reason at times. |
| _______________________________________ [May 18,2011 12:35am - goatcatalyst ""] Someone should beat them up. Or arson. Arson would be apropos. |
| _____________________________________ [May 18,2011 12:37am - RichHorror ""] Fuck The God In Heaven On The Inverted Cross Of Death |
| _____________________________________ [May 18,2011 1:32am - ouchdrummer ""] Yuh. Someone PLEASE beat them up. "so we had to change our image to match... Because, of course, that's just as important, if not more so, than the music." |
| ___________________________________ [May 18,2011 1:47am - AMOROK666 ""] I refuse to read this whole thread. Iwrestledabearonce is now bm. It's completely fucking ridiculous. If celine dion started a death metal band, or if john stamos started a thrash metal band, it would equally bullshit to me. I will continue to pretend this doesn't exist just like I pretend dimmu borgir doesn't exist. |
| ___________________________________ [May 18,2011 1:48am - AMOROK666 ""] Also.^drunk^ |