Review by Alex on November 15, 2018.

You really can’t ask for much more than what is presented on this 2018 3 song demo from Teleport. The Expansion is a ride through the untouched regions of time. If you love technical death metal that sounds old school but with a pinch of melody, then this will surely be an adequate treat until Teleport feels like the masses are deserving enough of a full length album. I was searching the technical death metal underground for something that bathed me with interstellar music that felt obscure and occult driven, something that sounded organic and had with it a concise theme and sense of progression through dark and entangled passages. Having heard Blood Incantation, Vector and Droid, I was not expecting to hear something I would desire more than the aforementioned bands. And having researched Teleport and discovered they have within their spacecraft 3 demos and an EP, I just had to hear the rest of their material. After listening to past efforts, I can make many distinctions in the change of musical directions genre-wise; their debut demo, Galactic Usurper was very thrash metal oriented and had the blackened touch of vocals and a bit of crossover while sounding heavily influenced by early Sepultura. 

2013’s Stellar Damnation introduced more varied and complex songwriting with progressive influences creeping into the bands identity. The thrash metal was somewhat still very dominant but gelled well with the addition of the progressive guitar tone and riff structure. It is also on Stellar Damnation you can hear the band begin to shed its thrashy roots a bit in barter for varied and technical compositions such as on the track “Obliteration of The Primordials”. The Ascendance EP gave birth to a band that had shed a large portion of their thrash metal skin in an attempt to take on technical and significantly more progressive music. The black metal vocals were still very much a part of the music and the bands identity and remained perhaps the only element that had survived Teleport’s musical metamorphosis. Even in this mutation the vocals seemed to have been undergoing slight changes in tone that were husky. The music started to sound more death metal especially in the soloing and riffing departments. Ascendance was a very good and very foreign release compared to previous efforts, it also stood out as a more confident, mature and chancy offering than prior. 

Upon us in the year 2018 is the solar reflection of The Expansion, an EP that would take the progressive, death and technical elements and magnify them to levels that would ensure the total change in the bands identity. This is what I’m hoping to be the final evolutionary stage in Teleport’s epitome, thus it seems they have reached the peak of discovering a sound to call inherently theirs. Like the past input from Teleport as much as you want, but there is no arguing that The Expansion is light years ahead of their early and even most recent material. This is the band merging into its newly acquired cell structure and membrane. Vocals now are more like death growls with a tiny layer of raspy hawking, the drum work is comprised of standard and intricate blast beats plus ghosting in select parts, and the riffs don’t just appear and leave, they show up and stay lingering in your mind, they’re outstanding and play along elegantly with rhythm. These 3 songs are the best teleport has ever written in their career; "Apothic Flames of Dissolution", fucking aaaaaaaa!, take that to Jupiter. Totally spellbinding stuff, it’s 9 minutes of technical/progressive sensations and smeared landscapes. The production is excellent on The Expansion, each instrument has its glowing moment, every pitch of the vocals grooves into the composition thus giving the ep a strong consolidating effect. The Expansion is merely a warning of the meteor coordinated to strike the underground, hopefully soon. Teleport are not just an excellent band they are a needed band, a relevant band; there is no reason for them being unsigned, unless they have refused past offers.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Review by Arek on October 11, 2017.

Teething is four screwy Spaniards who after five years of creative activity, in which they delivered (as befits any grinders) many EPs and splits to their fans, finally broke out and put out their first full-length album, which came to me through SelfMadeGod Records. We Will Regret This Someday are 12 amazingly trenchant kicks. This HC-Grind plow up takes just over 24 minutes, which is just enough not to return the last meal and yet still has the urge for further listens. By adjusting to the construction of this album I will cut off unnecessary fuckery and go straight to the music that hit my grind-absorbent tastes.

The material was recorded at Madrid's Sadman Studio and mixed in American AudioSiege (Nails, Magrudergrind). This confirms that dissecting of the sound will not be compulsory. The sound of percussion is very elegant, the bass is heavy, and the vocal does not drown the music. The tone of guitars with the bass cooperation is what the tigers like the most while bouncing, and they also sound like the best musical stories out of Sunlight. These twelve tracks are the quintessence of GC played heavily in punk rhythms and with HC manners of the vocalist. What we have here are chaotic, short, grinding pegs such as 'Mic Check', 'Up In Smoke' and 'Life Is Peachy'. The latter reminded me of old Americans from Wehrmacht. Yes, it is another value of this album - it brings back memories.

While listening to the debut of those Spaniards, we will find a lot of different influences ranging from punk, crust and crossover to death metal, although the basic bonding agent of course is the grind. Going back to the record, it must be said that despite all the grind madness, some down tempo respite also happened here and there. We will hear it in 'Just Kids', ending of 'White Cross Inversion', or slowest one - 'Subway Rat'. Do not be afraid, however, it will not dull out even for a moment. It's not doom, its grindcore, so the next hyper-blast will indicate the style of the disc. Are there any songs that should be mentioned with special honors? Probably not, since GC is not pop. The power of this disc is a mad rage of energy served up in varying tempos. In combination with the inventiveness of the musicians, it gave the prime sort of product. Although all the riffs, patents, etc. have already been played somewhere, and although some will label this album a "reheated cutlet", it does not bother me at all. I will be happy to go back to it anyway.

There isn't much to write about the depth of lyrics, because the cover of the album announces them quite accurately. From sharply contrasting colors of rotten green, radioactive yellow and rusty red to the titles from newspaper clippings clearly indicating that this is not some fairy tale. Thematically it is as predictable as it is musically, but thanks to that - everything stays together. Such a macabre taken out of life, lightly sharpened and served up with humor. GC / HC, in spite of its moral background, is primarily good fun and we have it all right here. 

Ending all this verbal spasms, I admit that We Will Regret This Someday is my first encounter with this Spanish quartet. It probably wouldn't have changed anytime in the near future, if it wasn't for the extremist approach and activity of SelfMadeGod Records, for which I bow deeply to them. Satisfaction would be even greater if I could drop some sweat around maddening stage presentation of these madmen, but I guess I will have to wait for that a little longer. At this moment I have to settle for the sound of their 12-track debut. For all the fans of hard hitting ensembles I recommend this as adrenaline injection. It may not save a life, it may not change the world, but with such pieces, the time will definitely flow faster. They got me with their punkish grind, the rest of you should check them out for yourselves.

Rating: 8 out of 10