Shaving the Angel CD

Released May 2007

Goddamn the Midnite Snake. Like a bat out of hell, heavy psych-metal stalwarts the Midnite Snake, nee the Midnite Fucking Snake, are back with a sophomore release that might just erupt Mount Olympus.

The trio from Pittsburgh, armed with America's greatest drummer Modey Lemon Paul Quattrone, bring forth a new metal: Dark, sweet, intense, and sophisticated. This new slab of digital drudgery presents songs that are longer and deeper than anything the Snake has done before, still with the richness of a dark and deathly metal, but now with layers of wandering prowess, like a lost soul in Young Goodman Brown's devil-riding forest, looking for his Faith to rest his head upon. But there is none to be found. Instrumental intensity that would make a late-era Coltrane AND a new era Acid Mother's Temple want to get back t on the road again, just so they could check the band out night after night and steal all of their secrets. Evil like the naked masked-covered ritual sacrifice on the cover.

Shaving the Angel is bigger and more powerful than their debut -- intense, complex, sexually bombastic metallic rock and roll -- with a hint of forest acoustic darkness breaking through the wall of evil whiteness that does indeed Shave The Angel. Modey Lemon drum king Paul Quattrone unleashes a beat that frees guitar god Alexei Plotnicov from the brimstone of Pittsburgh, riffing hard in heaven with Hendrix. This record plays loud at a soft volume, and is sure to cement their place in the hearts and souls of all the stoned rockers foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.