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Whether chopping a riff into pieces, reversing it, cutting it short, or messing with the tempo, Car Bomb’s unique style of Technical metal is the product of dissecting ideas and beating them to death. The result is equivalent to a jet engine propelling gravel into your skull. Car Bomb combines the polyrhythmic and mathematical madness of Meshuggah, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch with the rage and energetic fury of Coalesce and Converge. Though their songs are musically challenging, Car Bomb refuses to dilute their ruthless execution. Read more on Last.fm
Car Bomb has to be the most underrated band to have ever put out anything ‘mathy’ in the late 2000’s. Although the Last.fm band description will make me look like a dolt for saying this, if ‘Centralia’ was a triangle, the three sides would be Meshuggah, Converge, and DEP. It’s got the deleted beats of Meshuggah, the heaviness of Converge, and the seeming oddness of DEP—but with a precision that Dillinger could never pull off.
I mean, really: there’s a 0:37 song on this album.