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At the vanguard of industrial metal, the Los Angeles based five-piece have had an uncompromising vision since their inception. "From day one, the whole project was intended to be more of a multimedia art project built on the chassis of a band," explains 3TEETH frontman Alexis Mincolla. Being the creative director of downtown LA's infamous tech noir club night known as LIL DEATH, Mincolla regards how this party served as the primordial black ooze that eventually gave way to 3TEETH. It was there that his flair for visual art met with Xavier Swafford's keyboard and production skills and they began creating together. It wasn't long after that they filled in the gaps with Andrew Means (modular synth / bass), Chase Brawner (guitar), and Justin Hanson (drums). When their self titled debut album, released on Artoffact Records back in 2014, hit #1 on iTunes, it got them noticed by TOOL guitarist Adam Jones. Jones came out to see 3TEETH play at the Viper Room, which was enough to inspire an invitation for them to join TOOL and Primus on a full US arena tour in 2016. "Going from clubs to arenas as quick as we did was a real sink or swim scenario for us, and we knew we had to step it up and learn to swim in front of 20,000 people a night," says Mincolla. After returning from the tour, the band immediately locked themselves in the studio to crank out their sophomore release, (released on their own imprint, OMF Records). The record hit #23 on Billboard, and landed them tours across the US and Europe - headlining, and supporting acts such as Rammstein, HIM, and Danzig. 3TEETH have already begun to distinguish themselves both in the studio as well as onstage, and they've garnered a dedicated following hungry for what Rolling Stone Magazine called "a mix of state-of-the-art sensory overload with a take-no-prisoners level of aggression." They've managed to capture the minds of community in opposition to a creative climate riddled with artifice and compliance by meditating on the importance of disrupting consensu