CD Review: The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
October 24th, 2009 Filed under: Reviews - Music by admin
CD Review – The Red Chord
Fed Through the Teeth Machine
Metal Blade
Nine years later and the now four-man machine group The Red Chord bring you yet another healthy dose of metal. For almost a decade The Red Chord have never been one to follow the music trends, or change their sound dramatically because “that’s what everyone else is listening too”. They have stayed true to the game, and now releasing their fourth full-length studio album.
Fed Through the Teeth Machine, which is the disturbed birth child of what happens when four men who don’t care what is going on in music today, (or what the mainstream world is playing) decided to make another album. Being made up of musicians with backgrounds in death metal and hardcore the term “Deathcore” seems to be an appropriate name (not that another sub-genre in Metal is needed -Ed) for what The Red Chord evolved their music into. Not being ones to jump on the bandwagon for this genre but more an originator of it. Guitarist Mike “Gunface” McKenzie leaves his mark in every song on this album ripping at your chest with heavy deep chugs, switching to finger fast sweeps to songs like “Sleepless Nights in the Compound” the guitar almost seems to hypnotize you, as it can be hard to keep up with what is happening on this album at all times.
Completing this package is bassist Gregory Weeks keeping things low and heavy, it’s a pleasure to actually be able to hear the bass right away in the first song “Demoralizer”. Drummer Brad Fickeisen is definitely a valued asset to this album, not always playing for speed but also technicality, he puts the icing on your cake. Meanwhile, vocalist Guy Kozowky spits it back at you with his vocal styles and lyrical content
Again staying true to how The Red Chord is known; this album takes you on a ride full of up’s, down’s with songs that make you think.
By Taylor Ell
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