Red Method – As In Life EP
Red Method – As In Life EP
Depraved Records
Release Date: 17/07/2026
Review by Beth Morait
10/10
A couple of months back, UK Industrial/ Groove/ Metalcore band Red Method nearly gave me heart failure when they suddenly appeared to have a total social media blackout. I was confused, concerned, and intrigued in equal measures. Thankfully, it wasn’t the end I’d feared, or some kind of hack they’d fallen foul of. It was the build-up to this new release, the first multi-track release since the 2021 rework of their 2020 debut, “For The Sick”.
I’ve loved Red Method since the early days, after seeing them at Rabidfest in 2017, but they’ve gone through some considerable line-up changes since then. So, I approached this new EP with trepidation. But I needn’t have been as concerned as I was, as it’s still distinctly Red Method, mainly due to the power and skill of the frontman formerly known as Jeremy Gomez, now known as J.S.a.n.g.r.e. This shift in line-up and persona has come about as part of the welcoming in of the new dawn of Red Method, as a concept band, exploring the dark, disturbed and extreme.
“As In Life” takes a dramatic and punishing wander through the depths of unfiltered mental suffering, exploring themes including misanthropy, solipsism, angst, grief, disaffection, psychosis, and rejection. Easy listening this is not. But, if you want to be beaten up by the deprived depths of your inner psyche, you’re in for a treat.
The spiky, industrial metallic sounds that we’ve come to know Red Method for are here in abundance, instantly penetrating your gut from the first bar of the opener, ‘Counting Corpses’. The guttural growls and tortured screams of J.S.a.n.g.r.e pierce you continuously like hypodermic needles to the eyeballs, and the punishing rhythm section fractures your ribcage to open a clear passage to your heart so it can be ripped, still beating, from your chest by the shreds and riffs of the downtuned guitars. And then, just to cradle the madness, every now and again, we get a face-melting guitar solo that wouldn’t be out of place in any Dragonforce song – just for shits, cos why not, eh (See ‘Detonate’ for an example of this)?!
And that really is about the measure of this EP. Every track is a neck-breaking banger. It’s just fucking epic and you need to play it loud, over and over again, until it tips you into the well of insanity. God I’ve missed these guys!!! So glad you’re back – please never worry me like that again!
TRACKLISTING:
01. Counting Corpses
02. Dispose of Me
03. All For One, None For All
04. Detonate
05. Becoming The Sickness
06. The Revolting Self
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