Baring Teeth formed back in 2007, and was originally under the name Soviet. However, after the change of identity, the Dallas, Texas based group put out their first demo in 2010, which was enough to grab the interest of Willowtip Records. Roughly a year after that demo was brought to the public's eye, the band brings their debut full-length album, Atrophy, the title used for their demo as well....Read More

Baring Teeth is a Dallas based technical death metal band consisting of three members. Their new album, entitled Atrophy, is my first exposure to the band. Their label promotes them as a progressive death metal band with avant-garde elements. I have a soft spot for these kind of forward thinking bands, so let’s see what Baring Teeth has to offer. When it comes to progressive death metal I...Read More

Atrophy is definitely an album that wants to be heard and one that lets its own writing speak on behalf of it. Then again, it’s not a disc I want to subsume to tablature and pore over the skeleton; it feels too authored and complete for that. Jason Roe, Scott Addison, and Andrew Hawkins play parallel to one another in only the best contrapuntal way, stressing their disciplines before...Read More

Gorguts’s influence hangs pretty heavily over today’s tech-death scene, it’s fair to say, but the resemblance borne by Kansas’s Baring Teeth is particularly striking. At points Atrophy seems like the work of a fanatical worship cult, obsessively preserving the arcane vision imparted on the world with Obscura over the course of the many millennia (13 years) since its...Read More