The Red Chord
| The Red Chord | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Revere , United States |
| Genre (s) | Deathcore |
| founding | 1999 |
| Website | www.theredchord.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Guy Kozowyk | |
Electric guitar , vocals |
Mike McKenzie |
| Greg Weeks | |
| Brad Fickeisen | |
The Red Chord is an American deathcore band from Revere ( Massachusetts ), whose band name comes from Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck .
history
Three years after founding the band in 2002 released their debut album, Fused Together in Revolving Doors that with songs like Nihilist , Sixteen bit fingerprint and Dreaming in Dog Years great success in the metal - underground scene was able to record.
The second studio album Clients ( in German: clients ) was released in May 2005 by Metal Blade Records . On this album, each song describes a single "client," from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder to obsessive-compulsive disorder . A re-release of the album appeared in mid-2006 with bonus tracks.
The third studio album Prey for Eyes was released again in July 2007 via Metal Blade. A total of 5,000 to 6,000 copies were sold and the album reached number 3 on the Billboard Heatseekers charts. Job for a Cowboy singer Jonny Davy played the two songs Dread Prevailed and Prey for Eyes and Nate Newton, bassist from Converge , played Tread on the Necks of Kings .
About the background of the album title, singer Guy Kozowyk said the following:
Inspired by events where my brother, who is a prison guard, walks in on an inmate doing something ridiculous in his cell. The prisoner won't talk and gets into this dialogue via a notepad. After documenting that he can no longer talk because the devil removed his tongue, my brother checks the cons mouth with his flashlight. When he tells him that his tongue is definitely intact, the inmate replies with the cryptic message 'Pray for Eyes'
“ I was inspired by an event where my brother, who is a prison guard, walks up to a prisoner who is doing something ridiculous in his cell. The prisoner cannot speak and enters into this dialogue through a notebook. After learning that the prisoner could no longer speak because the devil removed his tongue, my brother checked his mouth with his flashlight. When he tells him that his tongue is definitely intact, the prisoner replies with the enigmatic message 'Pray for eyes' "
The fourth and current studio album Fed Through the Teeth Machine was released on October 27, 2009 via Metal Blade Records.
style
The music of The Red Chord includes influences from death metal , grindcore and metalcore . Although the band is marketed as deathcore , they don't care what genre they are categorized into: " Some call us a grindcore band, others a death metal band, and still others a hardcore band. We're not one of them, we're just fucking loud. "
Discography
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- 2002: Fused Together in Revolving Doors (Robotic Empire Records)
- 2005: Clients ( Metal Blade )
- 2007: Prey for Eyes (Metal Blade)
- 2009: Fed Through the Teeth Machine (Metal Blade)
Music videos
- 2005: Antman
- 2005: Blue Line Cretin
- 2005: Black Santa
- 2005: Fixation on Plastics