Silver Snakes
Year Of The Snake
Los Angeles SILVER SNAKES are back with their second full-length, Year Of The Snake, the follow-up to their 2011 critically acclaimed debut, Pictures Of A Floating World. Year Of The Snake, which was named one of Alternative Press "Most Anticipated Albums of 2013," sees the bands vocalist, guitarist and principle songwriter Alex Estrada, whose "day job" is recording bands including NAILS, TOUCH AMOR and JOYCE MANOR, stepping behind the board to produce his own band. Roger Camaro of NO MOTIVE, who co-produced Pictures Of A Floating World, worked with Estrada recording drums and basic tracks for the record. After the recording process in LA, the tracks were sent to Salad Days Studios in Baltimore to be mixed by Brian McTernan, whose resum includes acts influential to SILVER SNAKES, such as CAVE IN, ENGINE DOWN, THRICE, and CIRCA SURVIVE. The resulting eleven songs see SILVER SNAKES going in a darker direction than they had visited on Pictures, and finds their dynamic range expanding; the band has grown louder and more dissonant on tracks like "No Color," while getting quieter and more desolate on tracks like "Lock."