TEETH

I formed TEETH my senior year in high school with a freshman named Devin Tyrrell. We wanted to make music as ridiculous and brutal as possible. Inspired mostly by grindcore and noise, we recorded this 10 song, 9 minute album the first time we got together. All of the songs were about eating or being eaten. I think we had one practice one time and played a shitload of shows.

After we recorded, we set about looking for a place to play. We knew Thomas Yates threw house shows, so we asked him. Naturally he was down. The night before we made a bunch of CDs and buttons and hand-drew every one of them. We were planning on selling the CD for a buck, so on the inside we wrote, "You could have bought a coke with that dollar."

We crammed into Thomas's cramped basement filled to the brim with people, where we proceeded to play dozens of three or four second songs, separated by made up names or "1-2-FUCK-YOU!", bite people, and play guitar with rocks, like actual physical rocks. We sold every goddamned CD and most of the buttons. We played every chance we could. Sometimes the Coup would make the mistake of booking us with metal bands. Metal kids fucking hated us. At one show, we began playing to about a dozen people, I looked down at my pedals for a second, looked back up and there was one guy left in the room. He was a drummer in a different band that we borrowed a cymbal from. He stayed because he feared for the safety of his cymbal. I destroyed a guitar at our last show, the only time I ever did that. It was more or less on accident but whatever.

Anyhow, we never recorded anything else and we just stopped playing shows all of a sudden. But this was for sure one of the funnest live bands I was ever in.

You can download TEETH here for free.

Nicholas Riley- guitar, vocals
Devan Tyrrell- drums
All songs written and recorded by TEETH in Clarksville, TN in 2008