DEADLY SNAKES
Porcella
In the Red

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Guys planning on killing their women are gonna love this record, man, because that’s what it sounds like, the prelude to a murder of passion. Retribution, shallow graves, guilty cigarettes and flop sweat. I’m not sure where the Deadly Snakes are from – they move around a lot, see – but I do know they wrote this bitter harvest in a log cabin in the wintry wilds of Nowhere, Ontario, while going a little more than slightly mad. Hence the dirty black gospel and the bleating funeral organ and the sudden bursts of joyous horns and elegant strings. It all sounds decidedly Australian, like a less boozy Beasts of Bourbon or more scurrilous Bad Seeds, but desperation, sadness, religious ecstasy, lunatic joy, and cold blooded murder are all universal concerns, really. “Gore Veil” will make you weep, “Sissy Blues” will make you laugh, and “Oh Lord, My Heart” will make you tear off your shirt and scream at the Heavens. It’s just that kind of record. Get it and start planning your next fiendish act or grand, noble gesture, whatever feels right. ________________________________________________________

-Sleazegrinder