Album Review: 3TEETH – EndEx (Century Media Records)

Released on September 22nd, 2023, via Century Media Records, EndEx is the brand-new album from industrial metal band, 3TEETH.

Few bands within the industrial metal world can offer such a contrast of abrasiveness and cleanliness as 3TEETH can. Their sinister and sexy industrial sound is deliciously infectious, covered with a sheen of emphatic electronica, and focused on blistering heaviness. On the one hand, this new album conjures up images of leather and whips, but on the other, a room full of sweaty head-bangers isn’t too much of a stretch for the imagination.

Hell, with the number of bangers on it, both combined isn’t that weird!

Keeping things sounding really sinister, 3TEETH get grubby with Xenogenesis before really delivering some crunchy beats and catchy choruses with Acme Death Machine and Slum Planet. An immediate adrenaline hit that shows off the ever-growing industrial talents of 3TEETH and their abilities to make this music both fun and powerful.

The latter, Slum Planet, also just happens to feature production from DOOM composer Mick Gordon, which just encourages a demon killing rampage.

With What’s Left, the manic industrial pacing is right on point, 3TEETH bouncing with such vigour that it’s hard to not join in. Whereas Merchant of the Void is a thrill-ride of sleazy sounding groove and booming beats. While 3TEETH stand on their own two feet, many will hear Ministry influences in a track like this. Before Higher Than Death serves as reminder of how strong 3TEETH’s choruses are, and how accessible their industrial sound is.

It’s wild, it’s weird, and it’s crawling around in the darkness, it’s Ali3n, and 3TEETH bring the sci-fi vibes with this one. Something that they really go all in on with the super-sinister Plutonomicon. The overall gloomy tone, the sense of horror that runs through it like a vein, and the furious latter portion, makes for an impressive listen.

Hip-hop group Ho99o9 then feature on the punchy Paralyze, before 3TEETH create some of their darkest atmosphere with Scorpion and deliver even more dramatic melody and moodiness with Drift. See it as the equivalent of electronica-focused grunge that gets more and more intense as it goes on.

If all of that wasn’t enough of an intriguing surprise, 3TEETH close out the album with a cover, but not just any cover, it’s a Tears for Fears cover. Turning the popular hit, Everybody Wants to Rule the World into a more tense and worrisome listen. All while keeping the track’s original anthemic sound front and centre.

3TEETH are very good at standing out in the industrial metal landscape, and while EndEx doesn’t signify a huge leap forward, it does show their growth and continued ability to appeal to so many.

3TEETH – EndEx Track Listing:

1. Xenogenesis
2. Acme Death Machine
3. Slum Planet
4. What’s Left
5. Merchant of the Void
6. Higher Than Death
7. Ali3n
8. Plutonomicon
9. Paralyze (featuring Ho99o9)
10. Scorpion
11. Drift
12. Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears Cover)

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