The Red Chord — Fed Through The Teeth Machine

Fed Through The Teeth Machine

Metal Blade/Universal

Keith Carman (CHARTattack)

10/27/2009 3:29pm

The Red Chord's fourth full-length, Fed Through The Teeth Machine, is apparently named after an industrial manufacturing unit the band saw on a television show, and doesn't exactly have the coolest back-story to its moniker. But that doesn't matter.

When hearing the grinding metal that spews forth from Fed Through The Teeth Machine's 12 tracks, one is so busy trying to pick up said teeth that silly things such as "how it's made" are rendered irrelevant.

Yes, the band have always packed an impressive wallop with their death-inspired grindcore, but never before so straightforward and cohesively. The whole affair is even more impressive when one considers that there are fewer members in the overall mix. Contracting to a quartet only seems to have honed the band's prowess at delivering dark dirges that unite bellowing old school heroes such as Napalm Death with the clinical sterility of the Gothenburg scene.

Impressive and rabid, it'll feel like your brain is being fed through a teeth machine after this monstrosity strikes.