These Arms Are Snakes

Artsy Seattle post-hardcore act These Hands Are Snakes mixes the urgency and intense vocal design of punk using the exploded music structures and specialized complexity of the initial wave of math rock rings. This fusion is really a logical progression through the bandmembers’ former tasks: vocalist Steve Snere was previously from the Minneapolis-to-Seattle emo transplants Destroy Sadie, while bassist, vocalist, and keyboardist Brian Make was previously in long-running mathematics rockers Botch. (Picture incest take note: other previous people of Botch and Destroy Sadie, guitarist David Knudson and bassist Cory Murchy respectively, shaped another Seattle post-hardcore work, Minus the Carry, whose drummer, Erin Tate, is at both Destroy Sadie and something lineup of the Hands Are Snakes. A Pete Frame-style family members tree among each one of these bands may possibly stimulate a nagging headaches.) Snere, Make, guitarist Ryan Frederiksen, keyboardist Jesse Robertson, and drummer Joe Preston released their 1st EP, THAT IS Meant to Harm You, on Jade Tree Information in August 2003. With Tate changing Preston along with Robertson from the music group, These Hands Are Snakes released their debut full-length, Oxeneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope GO BACK HOME, in Sept 2004. Their second full-length recording, Easter, adopted in nov 2006, with brand-new manufacturer Chris Common also overtaking the drum throne from Ben Verellen (of Roy and Harkonen popularity). On the next 2 yrs, the quartet toured with like-minded groupings Pelican, Mastodon, WARM WATER Music, as well as the Bloodstream Brothers before launching their third record Tail Swallower and Dove on Suicide Press records in Oct of 2008.