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PT KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - Just inside Alexis Mincolla's front door, there's a human skull of unknown origin given to him by Tool guitarist Adam Jones, a friend and fellow online video game obsessive. They met a few years ago at a wedding, though Mincolla neglected for months to mention the existence of his industrial-metal act 3TEETH. He figured Jones had enough people pushing their music his way. But Jones eventually found out about the band, and even came out to a show at the Viper Room on Hollywood's Sunset Strip.
PT KONTAK PERKASA FUTURES - Then one night in 2015, they went to see Ridley Scott's The Martian together and were in line for popcorn when Jones casually said: "You guys should come out on this next tour with us. Do you want to go?"
Mincolla was overwhelmed. He couldn't answer the question or concentrate on the movie. 3TEETH had released only one album and never played to an audience of more than 2,000. Tool played arenas. Eventually, the singer gathered his senses and said yes. The first night of the tour was in San Francisco. Metallica were in the audience, which didn't exactly help Mincolla's nerves. He sang the first two songs with his eyes closed behind his dark glasses.
Then he heard applause. "I slowly opened up my eyes," Mincolla recalls. "I was like, This is fucking awesome. Fast-forward three shows and all I want to do is play arenas and get that feeling. You taste that arena blood and it's like slaying a dragon …"
Mincolla and 3TEETH have many more dragons to slay, after international tours supporting Tool and, later, German juggernauts Rammstein, put the Los Angeles quintet at the leading edge of an industrial-music renaissance. But the crushing sounds and visions are entirely their own, with special fanatical attention given to Mincolla's lyrics of a world on fire. Onstage the singer is a leather-clad menace, roaring about our crumbling 21st century and issuing a snarling warning about the impeding dystopian future that awaits us.
He's a modern dude also at ease with the ancients and finds infinite inspiration in the great fallen civilizations: the Babylonians, Sumerians, Assyrians, the early Egyptians. Each passed into the abyss many centuries ago, taking their secrets with them. "There's something humbling about that," says Mincolla, sitting in his Los Angeles apartment, black boots laced to his knees. His obsessions, both historical and forward-leaning, are on full display in the art that adorns his home (including a fanged Medusa face made of brass, and a large print of Jean-Andre Rixens' 1874 painting The Death of Cleopatra) and on 3TEETH's new third album, Metawar — on which Mincolla examines post-millennial decay within an abrasive and melodic storm of colliding electronics and guitars.
Source : revolvermag.com