Wah Wah Exit Wound

Bio:

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"Seattle trio Wah Wah Exit Wound flaunt a PhD-level aptitude for math rock that never takes the easy, direct route from alpha to omega. While this kind of music can be extraordinarily geeky, WWEW combine the sort of labyrinthine song structures that could fog up Robert Fripp's glasses with an attack that's simultaneously brutal, fleet, and nimble enough to prompt metalheads to throw devil horns. Wah Wah Exit Wound are supporting a new album, Vibrational Osmosis, that broods, zooms, twirls, and rumbles like a cross between prog maestros King Crimson and Yes and flowery, fusionoid space cadets Return to Forever. It's a hugely ambitious record, with perhaps the most flamboyant exhibition of roto-tom pounding this side of Neil Peart." --- The Stranger, 5/28/2010

"More bands should be like the guys in Wah Wah Exit Wound." --Tom Murphy's MySpace blog, 8/26/09

"Wah Wah Exit Wound is an emerging force to be reckoned with. It's a three-piece so taught and in sync with each other that the music is able to take over your ears, flowing with a soothing complexity that's so natural that those not so fond of prog-rock may not even notice, but those who are will fully appreciate the precision the band shows off. The bass and drum grooves provide a deep landscape for the shredding guitar to fly over and scream in cold blood it's truths of the world. The rushing walls of sound, a variety of genres mixed into the progressive style, are heavier and truer than their influences...All in all, if you want to see a powerful, confident, exciting, technically gifted band...than you've got an obvious choice." --Teddy Dutton, LPM Voice, August 2009

"...songs...so serpentine and knotty, they must have taken 10-hour rehearsal days to master them. Seriously. These labyrinthine pieces sound great...while they’re happening (thankfully, they aren’t fooling about the wah-wah part of their moniker), but they’re very hard to retain in your brain afterward. They dissipate like passages from a book written in a language you only half understand. But during them, it’s like riding a roller coaster in a forest full of pine trees. Compliment." --Dave Segal, The Stranger LineOut, 7/10/09

"Wah Wah Exit Wound brashly thread abrasive post-rock guitar textures through prog-rock convolutions—sort of like a less-bombastic Mars Volta or maybe Polvo tackling King Crimson's Red. Whatever the case, WWEW do their thing—a thing not many have the skill and guts to do—very well." --Dave Segal, The Stranger, 7/8/09

"...churning, note-bending aural roller coasters..." --Grant Brissley, The Stranger, 5/5/09

"You guys should never have sang!" --Luke LaPlante (Sean, Spirit of Radio, drunk in 2009)

"...face-shredding prog, fantasy-metal..."--Sound on the Sound Blog, 1/16/09

"...Fripp-esque prog..." --Jeff Kirby, The Stranger, 8/13/08

"After seeing WWEW a couple of times and listening to this CD this stuff is really pretty damn good! Kind of different than anything I can name, other than this weird Seattle loose-posse of like-minded players who have managed to mix all these styles into longform tracks that go fucking everywhere, but where it's going are sounds I can dig and not pretentious noise or drone cop-out bullshit so many others tend to get caught up in---you guys actually write shit and can execute it. It's very bizarre that Seattle has several units of such progresso pychedelics out there ahead of the fuckin game. It deserves a vinyl releas to give it the psychological edge it deserves to create a timeless document&183;" --Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies), April 2008

"The quartet's monster guitars, attack-drums, and dramatic tempo changes are mysteriously heavy, darkly psychedelic, and you can actually hear how long the bass player's hair is. The result gratifies audience and musician alike in long, rock-operatic songs like 'Failed Spiraling Majesty.'" -- San Francisco Weekly, 5/16/07

"I sure like imagining this Seattle-based four-piece’s meandering, trippy, psych-influenced prog guitar lines working their way through the band’s noise-based backdrops and bursting through the other side–with blood sprays sonic rays shooting out every which way. The band’s sludgy prog rock undoubtedly achieves a piercing effect–whether it’s with gut-lancing bass or brain-rattling noise–which could conjure feelings of being shot with sound. It’s reminiscent of rockers from Danzig or Pink Floyd to seriously guitar-centric influences such as Built to Spill or Dinosaur Jr.–a fine group of idols if you ask me. If you ask the band’s MySpace, though, it will tell you it takes most after “KING CRIMSON!!!” No argument here." --Local Cut (Portland Music Journal), 5/16/07

"Seattle's Wah Wah Exit Wound are all about bashing their heads on the prog rock, as they liberally grab from the techincal precision of King Crimson and the unfiltered chaos of Japan's Green Milk from the Planet Orange. If prog is your steez, you couldn't pick two better bands to be influenced by." --Portland Mercury, 4/5/07

If you're driving in your car late at night and you happen to hear Megadeath's Rust in Peace come on the stereo (in full), and you dig it -- this does not necessarily mean you're a metal fan. It just might mean that you're predisposed to kind of dig on prog rock. So if you can kind of dig on prog rock, you might dig us. We sure hope you do. This band was started by Dave and Jared in an attempt to play something that combined prog song structures with psychedelic freakouts. Andy came on board from the drum core. Bowie came on board with a deep knowledge of all things Crimson. We jammed some more and worked some shit up that we like a lot and play all the time at home so that it sounds real good for all you folks in the listening audience. We like to play Hearts if anyone's interested. Watch out for Andy, he shoots the moon all the fucking time. -Gary Nielson, Drunk in 2007
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Member Since:

January 17, 2007

Members:

Dave Webb - guitar/vocals
Andy Pease - drums
Bowie McLean - bass
Jared Nelson - subconscious wavelengths

Influences:

Mostly Bruford in the drum department.....

Yes, King Crimson, Sonic Youth, Neil Young, Black Sabbath, Death, Bathory, Led Zeppelin, Immortal, Emperor, Return to Forever, Flower Travelin' Band, Bruce Springsteen, Can, PFM, ELP, CSN, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Tony Williams Lifetime band, Hendrix, Rainbow....

Seattle music: Diminished Men, Sean, Spirit of Radio, Brad Dunn, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Sugar Skulls, The Abodox, Lesbian, Girth, Spoils, The Sandpaper Handjob, Scary Bear, Fortress of Victory, Joules, Halo Vest, Spoils, Panther Attack, Emeralds, Contraband Countryband, Curious Mystery, Lemons and Stallions, Bishop Bros...

other folks as well, such as: Soren Kierkegaard, H.P. Lovecraft, Knut Hamsun, Otto Rank, Milan Kundera, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Lawrence Durrell, Baruch Spinoza, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lawrence Durrell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Robert Graves, Roger Zelazny...

Sounds Like:

At the Greenhouse in mid 2010:

At the Galway Arms in early 2009 (blown out):

At the Dog Park in early 2008:

Record Label:

1/2 Ass Universe