Since 1990, Chicago industrial rock mainstays Sister Machine Gun have been … Read Full Bio ↴Since 1990, Chicago industrial rock mainstays Sister Machine Gun have been making ground-breaking records and playing incendiary live shows. In the thirty-three years since the band was formed, SMG has released seven full-length albums, three EPs, and countless singles and side projects. SMG songs have been featured in video games and television shows such as Microsoft's Xbox game Amped2, MTV's The Real World, USA Network's La Femme Nikita, TNN and Fox Sports' Re:Evolution of Sports, and several feature films and soundtracks including Scream, Hideaway, and the platinum selling Mortal Kombat.

Sister Machine Gun founder Chris Randall and guitarist Miguel Turanzas are, without a doubt, one of music's hardest working duos. In addition to recording, producing, and touring, they also run their own record label, Positron! Records. Not simply a vehicle for SMG, the label has unleashed 17 releases including albums from Van Christie (Die Warzau), Matt Walker (Filter/Smashing Pumpkins/Cupcakes) and Mike Fisher (Machines of Loving Grace).

SMG's extensive catalog explores just about every genre of modern music, from electro-funk dance to Hendrix-flavored industrial strength rock. Their seventh release, Influence, is an elektro-industrial tour-de-force that recalls the industrial sound of the late eighties and early nineties. Heavy beats, distorted guitars and pounding synth lines drag your favorite sounds kicking and screaming into the future.

Sister Machine Gun's catalog of critically acclaimed albums includes four on the pioneering Wax Trax! label: Sins Of The Flesh (1992), The Torture Technique (1994), Burn (1995), and Metropolis (1997); plus three on their own Positron! Records: [R]evolution (1999) sistermachinegun: 6.0 (2001) and Influence (2003). The liner notes of these albums read like a veritable Who's Who of modern music, and include Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie/Tin Machine), Sascha & En Esch (KMFDM), Charles Levi (Thrill Kill Kult/Pigface), Gino Lenardo (Filter), Scott Churilla (The Rev. Horton Heat), Matt Walker (Filter/Smashing Pumpkins/Cupcakes), and Jim Marcus & Van Christie (Die Warzau).

With fans that treat the band as a religion, and an online presence second to none, Sister Machine Gun are Chicago's Ambassadors of Industrial.

Red
Sister Machine Gun Lyrics

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The devil's eating me inside
I feel like I've died
Nothing is as nothing seems
Makes me want to scream
I don't know how I'll make it through this night
I'll never be alright
I don't know what you want me to do
It ain't nothing new

I don't want to cause you pain
But I'm feeling quite insane
And I got nowhere to go
Baby, don't you know now
Way down deep inside of me
Is the way things got to be
I just got to let you know
I got to let you know

I don't think I can stand no more
Of what I left you for
I let my instincts lead the way
There ain't no better way
I know that nothing stays the same
But who else can I blame?
But who else can I blame?

I don't know what you want me to be
It's nothing I can see

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Sister Machine Gun's song "Red" evoke a sense of desperation brought on by inner turmoil. The singer feels like they are being consumed from the inside by the devil and that they are already dead. They express confusion and a sense of hopelessness, feeling like nothing is as it seems and that they have no way out.

The singer is aware of the pain they are causing by their actions, but they feel like they have no control over their own thoughts and emotions. They express a desire to escape the chaos inside them and a need to let their loved ones know what they are going through.

Line by Line Meaning

The devil's eating me inside
I feel consumed by negative emotions

I feel like I've died
I feel emotionally dead and disconnected

Nothing is as nothing seems
Things are not as they appear

Makes me want to scream
I feel overwhelmed and frustrated

I don't know how I'll make it through this night
I am uncertain if I will be able to cope

I'll never be alright
I feel like I will never fully recover

I don't know what you want me to do
I am unsure of how to meet your expectations

It ain't nothing new
This is a recurring problem

I don't want to cause you pain
I do not intend to hurt you

But I'm feeling quite insane
I feel like I am losing my mind

And I got nowhere to go
I feel lost and helpless