BARING TEETH HAVE BITE

Photo by Stephanie Mitchell

Willowtip’s press release announcing the signing of Dallas’ Baring Teeth describes the band’s music as “progressive, technical death metal with strong atmospheric doom and avant-garde influences” — but I think Vince’s more succinct delineation is also more accurate: “Awesome/weird proggy grind.”

How else would you describe a band that basically sounds like a ray gun factory run perilously amok? Baring Teeth are impressive because, unlike so many of their peers, they manage to simultaneously retain the tropes that make us love grind in the first place, while creating a sound which is wholly original. This is the kind of band that is going to elicit very, very strong reactions from listeners — I imagine they will instantly fall into the “Holy shit I LOVE this” or “Holy shit I HATE this” category for pretty much everyone.

Here’s a video of the band rehearsing a new song, the title of which, alas, I do not know:

You can also check out a smokin’ completed track, “The Dead Hand,” here. The band’s debut album, Atrophy, will be out Willowtip sometime this summer. Consider me beyond curious to hear it.

-AR