Track Listing

1. You Ain't No Family
2. White Water In the Morning
3. Danger in the Manger
4. I'm Cold and There Are Wolves After Me
5. Tastes Like Kevin Bacon
6. The Cat's Pajamas
7. Pazuzu for the Win
8. Black-eyed Bush
9. Eli Cash vs. The Godless Savages
10. See You In Shell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5106 in Music
• Released on: 2009-06-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
Debut album on Century Media Records from the electro-metal-trip-hop-dance-jazz pioneers from Shreveport, LA, IWRESTLEDABEARONCE. Produced by Ross Robinson and engineered by Ryan Boesch (Norma Jean). Get ready, metal just got gay.

Customer Reviews

It is a fad, and it will pass
That's really all there is to say about this band, and the others like them; hipster "metal" for guys in their sister's pants.

I won't go the route of the caveman shouting about RAR TRUE METAL; that's not the point, the point is that this isn't interesting, fresh or new; they're not doing anything that Mr. Bungle or Circle Takes the Square did before them. Possessing some semblance of talent is what separates those 2 bands from this run of the mill garbage.

Remember Limp Bizkit and Crazy Town; same thing; people who don't know a thing about anything will think this is some kind of cuh-razy new genre of music; those of us who've been in the know for some time will just sit there and snicker.

Many Good Parts, but some of it gets a bit boring...
Overall I enjoyed this album, although I feel the formula is just like all the other hardcore/scene kid/whatever metal scene (verses/chorus/verses/break down/another break down/break down during the break down), but as previously stated, I still enjoyed the album. The band managed to add some good little pieces that you don't normally hear, (like whack job country parts for ex.) It was also produced by Ross Robinson (Slipknot's first two albums) which I think helped bring forth a lot more of the band's heaviness. The vocalist is amazing (and she out screams a big handful of other screamers, but sometimes when she switches to singing she sounds like Morgan from Kittie). My only real problem with this album is some of the songs ("White in the Water Morning," "The Cat's Pajamas," and "Black-Eyed Bush" to be exact) are boring to me. I would recommend this album to anyone who is into hardcore, or experimental metal, for I don't think it would be a waste of your money to purchase, but for everyone else just download "Danger in the Manger," and "Tastes like Kevin Bacon," from somewhere to achieve your fix of Iwrestledabearonce.

Oh, and this band keeps getting labeled as grindcore, which it is DEFINITELY NOT! Grindcore is death metal done in 1 minute or less (correct me if I am wrong, but that is always how it was explained to me) and if you want grindcore get Cattle Decapitation's first two albums (Human Jerky, and Homovore) anything from the Locust, or Pig destroyer..Caninus.....etc.

It's tacky.
You could just look to other bands who have been blending genres for years now, with much more valid musical theory, with more success, and in less gimmicky ways, who also don't have the annoying "I'm too ironic to even laugh at how funny am I" vibe. Just sayin'. The girl is really good at screaming, and fine at singing...I think. It's hard to tell when everything is drenched in this much delay/reverb. Either way it comes out good on the other end of the computer/mic. But still, eh...just listen to Between the Buried and Me or Tetrafusion or something. : )