THE RED CHORD already has dates lined up with labelmates and interplanetary gods GWAR along with labelmates Job for a Cowboy. The nearly two and a half month trek with GWAR and Job for a Cowboy will take THE RED CHORD across the United States kicking off in Houston Texas on September 29th and finishing up in New York City on December 13th.

Here’s what guitarist Mike “Gunface” McKenzie has to say about the band’s new album Fed Through the Teeth Machine; “We spent the last year working hard on this one and we’re excited for everyone to finally hear it. It’s a lot faster and, in my opinion, more straight forward in a structural sense. We’re really happy with the great work Jonny Fay and Zeuss did too. It’s not a concept record, but there are some loose conceptual elements to it: hygienic obsession, delusional compound-dwellers and Maniac Mansion. Get ready to make fun of us on the internet!”

In conjunction with the release of Fed Through the Teeth Machine, THE RED CHORD has just uploaded the brand new track “Demoralizer” to their freshly updated MySpace page that showcases the album’s artwork. Check out the new MySpace design and track Demoralizer HERE.

“Demoralizer kind of sums up what the record is about. It’s aggressive and fast with some darker melodic parts. Probably one of the angriest-sounding songs we’ve recorded, which fits the records vibe” comments Mike “Gunface” McKenzie.

Fed Through the Teeth Machine track listing:
1. Demoralizer
2. Hour Of Rats
3. Hymns And Crippled Anthems
4. Embarrassment Legacy
5. Tales Of Martyrs And Disappearing Acts
6. Floating Through The Vein
7. Ingest The Ash
8. One Robot To Another
9. Mouthful Of Precious Stones
10. The Ugliest Truth
11. Face Area Solution
12. Sleepless Nights In The Compound

While the heavy music scene is flooded and littered with trendy, ‘current’ fusion bands that string together electronics and mosh and pretend to be as brutal as fuck, THE RED CHORD aren’t having any of it. The music on Fed Through the Teeth Machine is like a hulking hammer that rips and tears at the fabric of all that is trend-driven. But THE RED CHORD aren’t making music for that purpose; they’re just good enough to flip off trends and top the bands that perpetrate them. The Massachusetts band – which has downsized to a lean ‘n mean four-piece to counteract the bad economy function as a quartet without sacrificing any of their Rottweiler-like ferocity and tenacity – continues to focus on making extreme metal, for extreme people who want something lyrically and musically outside the box and forward thinking and don’t want some assembly-line, manufactured, “of the moment” band in their lives. Put simply: If you want to have your bones reduced to dust and your brain taken out scrambled and put back in by music, then THE RED CHORD are up for that task with Fed Through the Teeth Machine.

THE RED CHORD is:
Guy Kozowyk – Vocals
Mike “Gunface” McKenzie – Guitars
Greg Weeks – Bass
Brad Fickeisen – Drums

THE RED CHORD
Tour w/ Job For A Cowboy, Gwar 09/29 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
09/30 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
10/03 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
10/04 Ybor City, FL The Ritz Ybor
10/06 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
10/12 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
10/14 Sauget, IL Pop’s
10/15 Indianapolis The Vogue w/ Mobile Death Camp
10/17 Detroit, MI Harpo’s w/ Mobile Death Camp
10/18 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues w/ Mobile Death Camp
10/23 Richmond, VA The National no Job For A Cowboy w/ RPG
10/26 Buffalo, NY The Town Ballroom
10/27 So. Burlington, VT Higher Ground
10/31 Worcester, MA The Palladium
11/01 Montreal, QC Club Soda
11/02 Toronto, ON Sound Academy
11/04 Louisville, KY Expo Five
11/08 Dallas, TX The Door
11/09 Tulsa, OK Cains Ballroom
11/11 Englewood, CO Gothic Theater
11/12 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theatre
11/13 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theatre
11/14 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre
11/15 San Diego, CA House of Blues
11/16 Hollywood, CA House Of Blues
11/18 Ventura, CA Majestic Ventura Theatre
11/19 Chico, CA Senator Theatre
11/20 Sparks, NV New Oasis
11/21 Magna, UT The Great Salt Air
11/23 Pomona, CA Glasshouse
11/24 San Francisco, CA Regency Center
11/25 Bend, OR Midtown Music Hall
11/27 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
11/28 Spokane, WA Knitting Factory
11/29 Seattle, WA The King Cat Theatre
11/30 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom
12/02 Edmonton, AB Edmonton Events Centre
12/03 Calgary, AB MacEwan Hall Ballroom
12/04 Regina, SK Riddell Centre
12/05 Winnipeg, MB The Garrick Centre
12/07 Chicago, IL House Of Blues
12/09 Charlotte, NC Tremont Music Hall
12/10 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
12/11 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights
12/12 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
12/13 New York, NY Irving Plaza

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“Like a Train Through a Pigeon” is blastbeat into hyper-thrash into blastbeat with a couple breakdowns thrown in that are easily Hatebreed’s Harvard graduate of a cousin in execution. Especially on the track “Catalepsy,” the listener is sucker-punched in the face with a sickening breakdown around the 1:20 mark – their missing front teeth serves as evidence. Production is a perfect compliment to the style. The bass drums actually have bass, and aren’t just little pussy “click-click” sounds. And it actually sounds as if the drummer is playing his kit; not the ultra-triggered sound common with death metal these days. The natural sound is a nice realistic glimpse into the actual drumming and, if anything, makes the song that much more pummeling. The guitars are crunchy with low end, but it’s not a bunch of over done open “E” chords; the brutality is executed with taste.

Another unique aspect of The Red Chord is their vocal department. The spectrum is entirely covered when it comes to extreme metal: the death-like grunt, high-pitched scream, slightly decipherable yell/shout. It’s all here and then some. Within the first 10 seconds, track eight, “Dreaming In Dog Years,” will make Dillinger Escape Plan fans do a double take. The technical guitar and drum interplay is rabidly furious and nano-second sensitive on the timing scale, and it’s also 10 times heavier. An added bonus is that this band came pretty much out of nowhere, which adds to my shock and amazement as to why more people raving aren’t about this band? If bands like Botch and The Dillinger Escape Plan are the thinking man’s metal for the indie-metal/hardcore kids, then The Red Chord will represent intelligence in death metal. Thankfully the painful stigmas that come along with having “death metal” associated with The Red Chord isn’t present on Fused Together In Revolving Doors.