Track Listing

1. Pieces of You
2. Gum Under the Table
3. Rid
4. Cellophane Stiletto
5. Best Intentions
6. M^6
7. His Eyes
8. Hypnotic Worm
9. Cielo Drive
10. Solid Grey
11. H5N1

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #193808 in Music
• Released on: 2007-02-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
CAR BOMB detonate a vicious blast of wildly technical and progressive modern metal on their Relapse debut Centralia. The Long Island, NY quartet's attack is relentless and suffocating; vicious jazz-inspired blasts shift into mechanistic, canyon-wide grooves. Schizophrenic, whisper-to-a-scream vocals seem to spiral out of control, only to snap back lock-step into the churning assault. A cold and unrelenting monster of an album, Centralia is a disorienting, exhaustive statement of intent and embodies the very essence of 21st century musical extremity and dexterity.

From the Artist
For Fans Of: The DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, FANTOMAS, The LOCUST, MESHUGGAH, A LIFE ONCE LOST, PSYOPUS, BURNT BY THE SUN, SOILENT GREEN

Customer Reviews

Great Record
The expression "rewards repeated listens" really applies to this band. If you listen to the record only once, they may come off as another math metal dillinger/meshuggah type group. But the more you listen to this album you start to realize how unique it is compared to the typical complex metal band out there. Before there was car bomb, there was a group called Neck. Car Bomb pretty much represents the extreme side of what Neck was. The music is vicious and unlike other bands within the same genre, every song doesn't sound the same as the other.

There are points in this record where the guitar will actually sound like a telophone ringing in sequence with double bass, then there are other moments in which the vocals seem as if they're skipping as if the cd was scratched. You really get your money's worth out of this band. definitely a great pick up.

May Cause Spontaneous Human Combustion In Small Children And The Elderly
I am a fan of experimental metal of all shapes, sizes and varieties, and picked this album up after reading a review in a guitar magazine. Car Bomb probably would not appeal to about 98% of the music-buying public, but fans of Meshuggah or Decapitated, or some of the newer bands to use the "math-" or "tech-" metal moniker like The Dillinger Escape Plan or Ephel Duath should check this out.

Musically, you have to hand it to any band which would even attempt something this rabidly schizophrenic, chaotic, and convoluted in structure. Full of abrasive chainsaw guitars, guttural death-metal vocals as well as odd shrieking, confounding time signatures and jerky stop/start riffage, bizarre sound effects and just plain spastic noise, Car Bomb seems an appropriate name for this band; you certainly feel like you are in a warzone when you pop this disc in.

Although it is quickly growing on me, I do think that other bands have already covered this gound, and in many cases done a better, more cohesive job of it, although in this "genre" anything really goes....I would especially recommend this to fans of the aforementioned bands. Careful with this music around anyone with a heart condition, and you should probably check your proximity to flammable objects. Must be listened to at high volume.

Solid
These guys definitely wear their influences on their sleeves. I can hear Meshuggah and Dillinger all over this record. The cool thing is that they take that inspiration and spin it their own way. There's not a dull moment on this record, and (unlike most "Math" metal) the songs are so convoluted and schizophrenic that multiple listens don't dilute how technical this stuff is.

The vocals are truly used like an instrument in this band, and I've never really heard it done in this manner. They also do some REALLY cool stuff with tempo changes and soft/loud dynamics. I'm definitely impressed. I'm looking forward to more from these guys.

Every song has at least one or two parts that will leave you going "WTF?"