Treepp is about me venting again. I get completely disgusted when I walk around people, especially in crowded areas and at the time I had been traveling a lot for work. I had been pretty much all over the world in a month and noticed the same pattern everywhere of people wrapped up too much in material things and not noticing all this amazing stuff around them. Living in Canada and not being in a band for a few months because of it, I had to do something so i started writing all this black metal that i had been delving hard into at the time. I came up with a side project called born at the stake, and had been writing for it. This song originally was going to be for that, but thought it was interesting and would help make the snakes album more full. I like bands like Led Zeppelin and such that have an album full of songs that seem to fit, but draw on various musical styles and that's what i envision Snakes alive to be. We never do the same thing twice, and we already have various EP ideas with some stuff fully written just needing to be worked on that go in different directions much like boris and all their awesome eps that they have released.
This song is basically about the trees just uprooting, cutting off our oxygen and destroying everything mankind has built. Kind of tolkein meets lovecraft. I wrote the basic parts of the song in canada and remember everyone giving me funny looks for the instrumental part before the end heavy part cause the timing was a little odd. Seriously, I'm the worst at playing an idea for people cause it changes all the time and the guys in the band are great at 'fixing' or making the idea work with drums. I was still searching for more and more black metal and thought i had come up with something that sounded like what i was hearing in my head and searching for. I really like the chorus as it's evil but melodic and came out great. The vocals make me light headed, i don't get sick, i don't lose my voice but it's like tapping another part of my brain that i don't use, cause i try and push the vocals in a way that uses the pipes without damaging anything. This basically just means that when i'm stumbling around when we play that's cause i'm pushing hard vocally and it just takes a lot out of me. The vocals come from the belly and reverberate through my head, and i feel like i'm shaking violently when screaming on stage. This song in particular is one of the first i did a few takes on vocally, up till this song everything was done in one vocal take on our first EP and even the full length.
