BARING TEETH

The band is a three-piece and the instrumentation is stripped down to guitar, bass and drums. There are long instrumental passages on the album but when there are vocals they are indecipherable growls placed low in the mix. Baring Teeth play a dissonant, atonal form of technical death metal. They remind me a lot of the Norwegian act Diskord. Baring Teeth also add some slower paced post metal elements to their sound which is especially evident in the 12:25 minutes long closing track "Tower of Silence". The various stylistic elements make the album quite an eclectic listen.

The musicianship is excellent and the production is powerful and suits the music well.

It´s strange to note that such an adventurous and quite progressive release as "Atrophy", doesn´t come off as being groundbreaking or especially innovative, but that´s just not how I perceive the album. Nonetheless "Atrophy" is a great album and fans of dissonant, atonal death metal should check this one out. That means fans of acts like Gorguts, Ulcerate and the above mentioned Diskord. A 3.5 star rating is deserved.