Biography
American quartet 3Teeth surfaced from the Los Angeles underground to restore industrial abrasion to the city’s music circuit. Their outspoken socio-political positions, leather-bound visual identity, and unfiltered messaging secured listeners at intimate levels and among prominent metal acts, drawing noted admirers including Tool and Rammstein. Successive releases refined their abrasive approach, broadening the industrial-metal framework across the 2017 follow-up shutdown.exe, the 2019 album Metawar, and the further-evolved 2023 set EndEx.
Vocalist Alexis Mincolla and keyboardist/producer Xavier Swafford first connected in 2013 at one of Mincolla’s underground “Lil Death” parties, prompting formation of the provocative artistic collective. Drummer Andrew Means and guitarist Chase Brawner completed the lineup, enabling an integrated practice in which the members handled all music and visual production themselves. The resulting videos delivered pointed social critique and ironic propaganda reminiscent of Rammstein or Tool, while the sonic palette recalled early-’90s Wax Trax releases and the pop-industrial trinity of Ministry, Skinny Puppy, and Nine Inch Nails. Their self-titled debut appeared in June 2014 and was followed that October by a remix collection.
Although work on a second album had begun, a chance encounter between Mincolla and Adam Jones (Tool) at a wedding—both served in the groom’s party—led to an invitation to open Tool’s 2016 tour with Primus, granting 3Teeth wider exposure. After the dates concluded, the band returned to the studio and issued “Degrade,” the first preview of shutdown.exe, which surfaced in May 2017. Subsequent support runs with Rammstein, Danzig, and H.I.M. preceded the next project, for which the group enlisted Sean Beavan (Nine Inch Nails), mixer of shutdown.exe, to produce. Century Media released Metawar in July 2019, timed with a tour alongside Ministry; the characteristically caustic material featured the singles “American Landfill” and “EXXXIT” plus a subversive reading of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks.”
In April 2021 the band issued the two-track 7" Guns Akimbo in tandem with the Daniel Radcliffe–starring film of the same name, incorporating covers of Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz” and Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record Baby).” By 2023 the quartet prepared a new album cycle with the singles “Slum Planet,” “Merchant of the Void,” and “Scorpion,” all later included on the fourth full-length EndEx. The record extended the group’s brutal sound and incisive social commentary while demonstrating increased songcraft refinement, resulting in their most accessible collection to date. For EndEx, Mincolla and company collaborated with famed video game composer Mick Gordon (Doom, Wolfenstein, Killer Instinct) and rap duo Ho99o9 (“Paralyzed”).
Vocalist Alexis Mincolla and keyboardist/producer Xavier Swafford first connected in 2013 at one of Mincolla’s underground “Lil Death” parties, prompting formation of the provocative artistic collective. Drummer Andrew Means and guitarist Chase Brawner completed the lineup, enabling an integrated practice in which the members handled all music and visual production themselves. The resulting videos delivered pointed social critique and ironic propaganda reminiscent of Rammstein or Tool, while the sonic palette recalled early-’90s Wax Trax releases and the pop-industrial trinity of Ministry, Skinny Puppy, and Nine Inch Nails. Their self-titled debut appeared in June 2014 and was followed that October by a remix collection.
Although work on a second album had begun, a chance encounter between Mincolla and Adam Jones (Tool) at a wedding—both served in the groom’s party—led to an invitation to open Tool’s 2016 tour with Primus, granting 3Teeth wider exposure. After the dates concluded, the band returned to the studio and issued “Degrade,” the first preview of shutdown.exe, which surfaced in May 2017. Subsequent support runs with Rammstein, Danzig, and H.I.M. preceded the next project, for which the group enlisted Sean Beavan (Nine Inch Nails), mixer of shutdown.exe, to produce. Century Media released Metawar in July 2019, timed with a tour alongside Ministry; the characteristically caustic material featured the singles “American Landfill” and “EXXXIT” plus a subversive reading of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks.”
In April 2021 the band issued the two-track 7" Guns Akimbo in tandem with the Daniel Radcliffe–starring film of the same name, incorporating covers of Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz” and Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record Baby).” By 2023 the quartet prepared a new album cycle with the singles “Slum Planet,” “Merchant of the Void,” and “Scorpion,” all later included on the fourth full-length EndEx. The record extended the group’s brutal sound and incisive social commentary while demonstrating increased songcraft refinement, resulting in their most accessible collection to date. For EndEx, Mincolla and company collaborated with famed video game composer Mick Gordon (Doom, Wolfenstein, Killer Instinct) and rap duo Ho99o9 (“Paralyzed”).
Albums
Singles
