3TƎETH - shutdown.ɘxe (2017)^{Release ID: 10516}

It is unlikely that this band will ever go down in history along with its inspirers Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, because the industrial metal genre is dead as such and is kept alive by a handful of old school imitators, but you can still come across frashblood, worthy of its predecessors and capable of showing old Reznor how a machine heartbeat sounds today.

This release is a good example of how industrial metal should sound today. Of course, the lyric component of the tracks is relatively sterile and does not move beyond the familiar problems of modern society, highly generalized in the verses of Alexis Mincolla in the sauce of cyber-apocalyptic horror, but vividness of the allegories is really impressive, despite a certain abstractness. Combined with the mechanical voice of the vocalist, these lyrics conjure up vivid visual images, immersing the listener in their demonic dystopia, where nothing human is possible.

The appropriate use of many samples and the abundance of distortion, which does not cut your ears with the quality production of this record, is also pleasing. From the minuses, in some tracks the drums sound unconvincingly, as if banging on plastic. However, it is compensated by the atmospherically excellent keyboards, dense guitar riffs and sexy voice of the vocalist, timely switching to a rolling scream. 

Especially we want to note the track "Away From Me" with its apocalyptic trumpets in the intro, devilish meat grinder "Pit Of Fire", melancholic soul scream "Voiceless" and intriguing, infernal, semi-instrumental track "Divine Weapon".

As a fan of NIN, I am very pleased to see that even now industrial, even if it has lost its relevance, is alive with bands like 3TEETH, who don't just build their work on tired templates, but also bring fresh elements of their own to the genre. 7/10