By: Joseph VanBuren
Rating: 9/11 

As the self-proclaimed “self-centered piece of shit scumbag,” Long Island–based artist fOREVERMAN is a powerful voice for the underground disguised as an asshole. Forsaking all notions of mass appeal, he relies instead on brutal honesty and purposeful tastelessness. Those with delicate sensibilities, beware. Those with a sense of humor, enjoy. Responsible for all of his own beats and music as well as lyrics, fOREVERMAN is equally influenced by hip hop, punk and industrial. Experimental horrorcore, if not a redundancy, might be the best-fitting label. Doesn’t really matter — he wouldn’t accept it anyway. Whatever you call it, this is music for rebels, made by an obvious nonconformist. With songs like “Don’t Become Another Zombie” and a cover of GG Allin’s “Outskirts of Life,” it is made abundantly clear that fOREVERMAN isn’t interested in fitting in. His anti-everything attitude is refreshing until it becomes personal, like when he pleads “put me out my misery” in the song “Pretty Fucking Please.” Then it becomes kind of depressing. A balance is created, however, in his spoken-word material. In “A Joke Nobody Gets,” he intelligently rants about the oppression of society and the mediocrity that most people succumb to, using dark imagery to display an enlightened sense of perspective. These multiple dimensions all add up to fOREVERMAN: an artist oozing with confidence even as he alienates himself from the world.