Treepp

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.

Check out my Wenis!

Happily eating some taco's to look up and see manWitch showing it's junk directed right at your plate. I stared David Yow in the face last night as some guy grabbed his head and licked him slowly up the cheek as he screamed one of the greats off of Goat. Wondering, where's the danger?

white rabbit

2000+ Rebels

What is a rebel?


Rebels used to be these guys with greased hair, modded cars or motorcycles and switch blades. Normal people would be completely terrified to see them zooming up in the rear view mirror. Joe - "uh oh honey, here come some punks." Then they would proceed to pass and pretend to run the squares off the road. Growing up, I thought those were the cool guys. I wasn't born in the 50s, but I have always liked old movies compared to usually what is out at the current time. I still watch classic movies more, even prefer a good old silent over most of the movies released now a days.

Throughout the years since these greasers, rebels have changed to hippies, punks, new wave, grunge, back to punk, whatever. All had it's good and bad ideals that made them edgy.


Lately I think it's all completely confused because meet today's rebel:

What? This guy is a rebel? Fuck yes he's a rebel, this guy has his awesome new luxury sports car suv oversized truck and he has to get to work RIGHT NOW. So you better watch your sorry ass if your driving on the freeway cause this guy will whip around you like the inferior piece of shit that you are. Emails, productivity, phone calls, secretaries to flirt, faxes to make, golf stories to discuss, football games to predict, this guy has no time to spare when he's racing to work talking to his dashboard in some very heated conversation or maybe he's just talking to his wife cause he sure as fuck doesn't do that on the weekend or at night time. Kids? What are those, I got my blue tooth and blackberry/iphone and that's way more important then some kid cause my child hood is completely lost (oh wait, smile for the camera, see i was there for you son).

Is this a rant? Yes, I am in this world, doesn't mean I have to like everything or everyone in it. that's why I scream in a heavy band, I have issues. Also the above picture is a random one I got off google, if this guy is actually a nice guy, then you don't get the point.

I think I'm now more worried about staring one of these guys down then a gangster.

by tom denny

We will be playing some new stuff and our new drummer is awesome so come check us out. Also get the guitar center magazine thing brochure handout sale deal whatever that goes out in the mail and see his interview in it, he doesn't play v-drums i think... he should though...

sorry to have kept you waiting

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DumDum is the Queen

We posted a new song up from our album coming soon on Sentient Recordings.

The song was written when i was in a hotel room in Canada living there finishing a project called DarkSector cut off from my band mates except through various recordings sent through email.

I remember playing that riff in the middle over and over as storm clouds came in by the windows of the hotel. I was mostly just messing around trying to get better at playing and thinking it sounded kind of good. So I wrote the rest of the song around that riff. It wasn't until we practiced it that I whipped out a slide and did the noise section at the end.

I knew the singing had to be handled mostly by Brian. At the time I watched an Elizabeth Bathory documentary and ended up writing about that from her point of view. I was told i should name my band after a lollipop called dumdum so i decided to name the song dumdum is the queen so that the name dumdum could be used somewhere. I didn't realize that many bands had already written songs about Bathory and there was a band named Bathory till after I did that, I knew someone had to have done it before me, but I didn't realize how many otherwise I probably would've changed the lyrics to something more greek. The part after the middle where the noises are coming in and the guitar and screaming are alone is narrative from Bathory's point of view of dying and not having recieved the coins to cross the ferry into the realm of the dead because no one liked her enough to bury her properly. So the journey at the end is basically meant to be her death and abandonment after being so greedy to have killed innocent women to keep her young and beautiful.

The song recorded sounds like how I envisioned it, the ending was crazy cause I didn't have any real clue except a couple parts that I had notes for mostly at the start of the slide part to the end where the song quiets a bit. It's mostly just improve noise making that turned out being even better then I thought it was going to be. The slide part was done in two takes, i didn't try and fix it or redo it, just two takes and Brian mixed them together masterfully.

I've always been way into Brian's singing and like the transitions of the song and how it developed. Thomas's guitar part at the beginning provides the atmosphere that part needed and ryan's drums on the whole song are great. The toms for the last half of the song and the build ups to downs by Ryan are really good helping to visualize the journey the song is meant to take the listener on.

Anyways, enjoy it as much as I do after hearing the work done. More will be given as we put more songs up!

Best,
Josh