3TEETH Unveil Cover of Guns N’ Roses Track “Civil War”

Industrial provocateurs 3TEETH are back with a new cover, this time taking on Guns N’ Roses’ loaded 1991 hit “Civil War,” giving the 7-plus-minute epoch a fresh – and heavy – polish at a time the song’s message takes on renewed meaning.

Says frontman Alexis Mincolla of the track:

“‘Civil War’ always hit me as a song about how people get torn apart, not just by governments or ideologies, but by the lasting ripple effects of conflict itself. It was written over 30 years ago, and somehow nothing’s changed except that the tools of perception management have gotten way more sophisticated. Sure, the faces may change, the flags may change, but the playbook stays the same. History loops like a low-effort rerun, and the remote’s nowhere to be found because the people writing the script want you tuned in and operating at a very low frequency.”

Mincolla adds:

“We didn’t cover this track out of nostalgia. We did it because humanity has this uncanny habit of investing more in ideology than in each other, and that makes us easy prey for the psyops. This cover is a mirror to that cycle. Same bullshit, just in higher resolution.”

3TEETH’s take on “Civil War” follows a series of other unexpected covers from the L.A-based act, with previously released versions of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks,” Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz,” Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record),” and Tears For Fears’ “Everybody Wants To Rule the World.”

The latter appeared on 3TEETH’s most recent album EndEx, released via Century Media Records, which was hailed as a “champion[ing] industrial metal” (Blabbermouth), “an album of the year contender for the genre” (Razor’s Edge), and the “band’s weirdest, most expansive offering yet” (Revolver).

3TEETH “Civil War” single artwork