RED METHOD
For The Sick DEPRAVED
London’s metal mentalists turn crisis into catharsis
IT’S BEEN SAID that the broken are capable of producing the best forms of art – whether it be music or otherwise. Having spent the past two years dealing with loss and personal traumas, Red Method are now looking to channel those struggles into their debut album. Spawned from the remains of death metallers Meta-Stasis and nowdefunct industrialists The Defiled, these rising Londoners toss their proverbial hearts on a plate with For The Sick, and it’s a visceral yet honest outpouring of emotion, screaming straight from the blackened depths of vocalist Jeremy Gomez.
Coming out swinging amidst a frenzied melee of frenetic rhythms and glitchy electro-noise, opens the record in suitably rabid fashion. Caps are heavily doffed to’s all-consuming intensity is juxtaposed with flamenco-imbued flourishes, and rapidly switch between the bile-laced screams of uncontrollable rage and soul-searching introspection. Feral blasts and spoken-word dialogue make the sinister more akin to a movie soundtrack whilst elsewhere, the cathartic belligerence of both and showcase a frontman battling those inner demons. The latter’s hopeless wails of nod to the cruel nature of life and losing loved ones.
