With a title like The Beast Who Eats Everything, the UK powerhouse, A Circle of Teeth, didn’t set the bar for subtlety with their 2025 LP—but no one with an appetite for industrial metal should expect a delicate serving. The standout single, Bovine, is the most ferociously emblematic track from the UK-based architects of mechanical disquietude, who’ve spent the past two years carving a visceral soundtrack from the wreckage of chaos, grief, and internal collapse.
Clearly, A Circle of Teeth have honed the ability to make a titular impact to the nth degree, and nothing in the album lets the intensity slip. After a filmically eerie prelude, the guitar amps start to warm before the instrumentals rampage through the production, tumultuously razing it to the ground as the hell-hath-no-fury-like industrial metal vocalist screams cut through the atmosphere with caustic volition.
The crushing weight of the sound design is matched only by the brutality of the lyrics, which lacerate without restraint. Bovine launches an all-out attack on the sociopathic puppeteers of the modern psyche—the manipulators whose influence pollutes everything they touch. Place your own protagonist in the firing line of A Circle of Teeth and feel the catharsis take over the rage. This track wasn’t made for background noise; it is a conduit for fury, forged for those who need to scream without lifting their own voice.
Bovine is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Bandcamp.
Review by Amelia Vandergast.