Red Method
As In Life
Depraved Records
Red Method are one of the UK heavy scene’s most ferocious, spellbinding, and relentlessly passionate live acts. They have fought tooth and nail for their place on the touring circuit yet remain criminally underrated. Each show is a riotous exorcism, a full-body purge that leaves both band and audience utterly transformed. This sextet deserves the spotlight not as a courtesy but as a necessary reckoning, because their originality, strength, resilience, and sheer heart are undeniable. They’ve paid their dues a hundred times over, and it’s long overdue that the wider world recognises them for what they truly are: one of the most vital, uncompromising forces in modern heavy music.
So, let’s explore ‘As In Life’ and the intricate compositions that secure Red Method’s rightful throne in the modern extreme-metal landscape. This EP is a raw excavation of disdain, grief, madness, rejection, and every jagged edge of the human psyche. Across the six tracks, unfiltered suffering is sculpted into dark art, forging a strange beauty from the chaos. These songs feel like the reward of years spent grinding and never backing down. They’re visceral, razor-sharp, and delivered with the conviction only a band that has lived every lyric can summon.
Opener ‘Counting Corpses’ was the first single released, accompanied by a lyric visualiser video that served as the dripping red teaser with its pummelling drums courtesy of James Perry and the raspy scream-shout-chant vocals from J S.A.N.G.R.E as he utters the chilling lyrics of “Death surrounds me, a perfect kill is a work of art, it crowns me, am devouring” spoken with unsurpassed eerie intensity.
The EP dances on a razor’s edge between blistering metal and pure melody and groove, a seamless switch-up that has become Red Method’s unmistakable signature. ‘All For One, None For All’ is now a live favourite, with Yacka and David Tobin’s guitar interplay feral and fluid; their chemistry is so tight it feels almost telepathic.
‘Detonate’ sounds as if it were forged in the fiery underworld, its power a gift from the dark lord himself, with Red Method serving as the vessel. Deff’s keyboards add a haunting new layer, and it is easy to imagine future live shows needing extra medical staff for fans who lose their minds in the pit.
‘Becoming The Sickness’ demanded a visual as savage as its sound. The resulting music video could stand shoulder to shoulder with the ritualistic brutality of Behemoth or the raw, unhinged ferocity of early Slipknot. Beardy’s thunderous bass surges with confidence, identity, and a chaos-fuelled misery that Red Method wield like a weapon.
As In Life’ perfectly captures everything that makes Red Method so devastating onstage and then goes on and distils it into six ruthless, meticulously crafted blows. This is a band not just surviving the scene, but elevating it, and with this EP, their rise feels both timely and unstoppable.
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Review By Nickie Hobbs