Industrial provocateurs 3TEETH are back with a new cover, this time taking on Guns N’ Roses’ loaded 1991 hit “Civil War,” giving the 7-plus-minute epoch a fresh – and heavy – polish at a time the song’s message takes on renewed meaning.
This cover, in Brutal Planet’s opinion, is impressive. Guns N’ Roses is not an easy band to cover with Axl’s vocal range and Slash’s stelar guitar work, but 3TEETH have pulled it off. It has all the dark, atmospheric key board and mechanical drums you would expect from an industrial song, but with that soulful feeling of the ordinal. Also, it is undeniable how pertinent the lyrics are today, so much so that I have also had the song stuck in my head a lot lately, and it is nice to see like minded people who saw that connection. Reviving the song for a modern audience couldn’t come at a better time.
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Says frontman Alexis Mincolla of the track, “’Civil War’ always hit me as a song about how people get torn apart, not just by governments or ideologies, but by the lasting ripple effects of conflict itself. It was written over 30 years ago, and somehow nothing’s changed except the tools of perception management have gotten way more sophisticated. Sure, the faces may change, the flags may change, but the playbook stays the same. History loops like a low-effort rerun, and the remote’s nowhere to be found because the people writing the script want you tuned in and operating at a very low frequency.”
Mincolla adds, “We didn’t cover this track out of nostalgia. We did it because humanity has this uncanny habit of investing more in ideology than in each other, and that makes us easy prey for the psyops. This cover is a mirror to that cycle. Same bullshit, just in higher resolution.”
3TEETH’s take on “Civil War” follows a series of other unexpected covers from the L.A-based act, with previously released versions of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks,” Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz,” Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” and Tears For Fears’ “Everybody Wants To Rule the World.”
The latter appeared on 3TEETH’s most recent album EndEx, released via Century Media Records, which was hailed as a “champion[ing] industrial metal” (Blabbermouth), “an album of the year contender for the genre” (Razor’s Edge), and the “band’s weirdest, most expansive offering yet” (Revolver).
ABOUT 3TEETH
3TEETH first manifested their cybersocial intentions as early as 2013: a musical entity born out of Mincolla’s Downtown L.A. weekly gatherings known as “Lil’ Death” With Xavier Swafford (keys, synth), Chase Brawner (guitars) and Andrew Means (bass, synth) joining Mincolla. 3TEETH released their first self-titled album the following year. Alliances with the likes of TOOL and Rammstein resulted in the collective’s first live performances and a rise to further notoriety with the release of 2017’s album shutdown.exe. which took 3TEETH to global stages. Working alongside producer and mixer Sean Beavan (NIN) at new label home, Century Media, 3TEETH upped their own sonic arms race with Metawar (2019) and entered a new echelon of cultural consciousness with a collection of tracks including the biting “President X” and their haunting take on Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks.” In 2023 came EndEx, with handiwork from the accomplished sound designer Mick Gordon (best known for his work on the gaming phenomenon DOOM) that showcased the modern industrial act at their most raucous yet, unveiling bold revelations of humanity’s technosocial disintegration behind a brutal soundtrack that sounds all the alarms.
3TEETH is:
Alexis Mincolla – vocals
Chase Brawner – guitars
Andrew Means – bass
Xavier Swafford – keyboards
Michael Levine – drums
Find 3TEETH Online
Website: https://3teeth.org/
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