Teeth are a death metal/grindcore band from the US, and this is their third album.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching Teeth develop, from their split with Fister and also with Barghest, to last full length The Curse of Entropy in 2019. The Will of Hate is the band’s longest release yet, clocking in at 39 minutes of pure punishing extremity.
Teeth’s venomous assault is an unholy mixture of technical and dissonant death metal, with a side order of feral grindcore and a caustic blackened edge. This toxic concoction is then poured down your throat with great force by a band that know their torturous art intimately at this point. Teeth sound absolutely malevolent on this new album. It’s well-crafted and the songwriting reveals a greater attention to detail, dynamics, and structuring, making for songs that are very satisfying to listen to. It’s dense and cloaked in malignant foulness, but also boasts a number of infectious rhythms and disgusting riffs that you can’t help but swallow down whole.
The Will of Hate suffocates with its powerful embrace. The songs are harsh balls of abrasive aggression, but not ones that are delivered without skill. They writhe with a dissonant darkness that fuels the core brutality of the music, driving it into your skull with a violence that has a finesse to it that’s not always easy to appreciate when you’re on the receiving end of its ire. The music is intricate and involved, and within the lightless heaviness and crushing menace of the songs you’ll also find spectral melodies that shine with unholy lustre and a collection of riffs that are lethal.
For those that have the stomach for something as unpalatable and unfriendly as this, The Will of Hate should be at the top of your shopping list. Teeth’s ascendancy continues, long may our cruel overlords reign.
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