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REVIEW: iwrestledabearonce - It's All Happening Century Media, 2009
5.5/10
iwrestledabearonce - It's All Happening - cover art I must be getting old, cause I don't really get this stuff. Normally I don't particularly mind what the youngsters are doing in Metal, but this lacks some substance. It's supposed to be part joke, part experimental, but I wonder which part is good. Who would listen to this?

To begin with, the female singer can't sing. Her dirty vocal isn't that bad, but there's a ton of clean vocals and she can't sing, not a lick. The experiment, besides using a non-singing singer, comes in the form of some stop starts into different riffs or switching off to a disco beat or a hillbilly beat. Should I laugh at this? I don't know.

There's a few parts scattered about that sound good. The dirty vocal can get real ferocious and aggressive over some pretty nifty riffing, but it always gets interrupted by some experimental BS.  It's a shame. As soon as something starts developing they decide to go in an awkward direction. In never makes sense. An experimental record for the sake of an experiment, yet hardly anything original or meaningful.

written by Alan Gilkeson

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Tracklist
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

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