W.O.M.B. - Soundtrack for a Heated Conversation

Take off your rose-colored glasses. Take your fingers out of your ears. Stop changing the subject.

W.O.M.B. is a five-piece Detroit hardcore punk band whose name is an acronym for "War on Man-Babies." Their defiance and provocation does not stop at their name's mere challenge against the patriarchy and the outing of machismo's vulnerabilities, flaws and hypocrisies, said defiance and provocation expands and is imbued upon each of their songs in contexts that address several important and frustratingly-ongoing/unresolved issues of inequality, misogyny, prejudice, greed, apathy, complacency...



We can all speak up or get involved with a cause for the first time, if we feel so inspired--it's definitely always easier to stay couched in the status quo... But W.O.M.B. are not just any punk band throwing up middle fingers for shock value - each member has been involved and supported various causes and groups working to effect change, to manifest tangible/actionable results in the struggle for justice and a transformation away from a culture of myriad toxicity. That being said, the music speaks for itself...

W.O.M.B. released this intense 11-minute set of music at the end of March - and you'll likely hear most of the five songs that comprise Soundtrack for a Heated Conversation at their next show, Sun., April 22 at Cellarmen's in Hazel Park. The lyrics would no doubt start a certifiably "heated" conversation, but because these songs initiate topics of conversations that are typically all-out-avoided if possible, the music, the insistent rhythms, the ferocious guitars, the frenetic time signatures, the fortissimo frenzy of each member in a harmony of rage, that energy is necessary. If no one else wants to talk about it, it's going to take W.O.M.B. to scream about it.

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