The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine

Published November 14 2009

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Genre	Technical Death Metal/Grindcore	Guy Kozowyk	Vocals
Tracks	12	Mike McKenzie	Guitar
Runningtime	35 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Metal Blade	Greg Weeks	Bass
Release	23 October 2009	Brad Fickeisen	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboard
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This is quite a piece of disturbing music - in a good way. The Red Chord are not in their own words "the hot shit, of-the-moment band, nor are we the young guns. We're jaded, bitter, old men and we wrote a record that is vicious and heavy because we have a lot to be pissed off about." And boy, do they demonstrate that anger to the fullest extent on "Fed Through The Teeth Machine".

The onslaught of this record was at first deeply difficult to ingest as a whole - I was exhausted by the time the band had gotten to the fifth song - ample evidence that this is not the record to which you listen when having a soft romantic dinner - this is the soundtrack of a raging crowd of lunatics running amok.

There are some letups from the really technical bordering on grindcore driven by the drums music that The Red Chord has churned out during their career, for example Mouthful Of Precious Stone" demonstrates some really nice melodic guitarwork from Mike "Gunface" McKenzie" but the overall impressions of this record is that the band favours either fast playing or really heavy ditto.

12 songs in 35 minutes, minutes that feel like you've dipped your head in a meltingpot of speed, hate, anger and sheer power, "Fed Through The Teeth Machine" is a really rewarding experience once you've overcome the first chock.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
8	6	7	6	7

Summary
7 chalices of 10 - Martin