For those who don't like to read: If you like Shotmaker (if you're human), shut the fuck up and download this. No they have nothing to do with the Duran Duran song (hopefully).
Union of Snakes is:
6 Strings/Vox)Hiko el Echizen Jellyfish
6 Strings/Vox)Gasmask Seller
4 Strings/Vox)Kdm the Fighter
2 Sticks/Late/Absence)Yodobashi-Chu
I feel sort of weird making this blog post. I mean Ryan at The Absent Trail blog posted this a few days ago, and thats where I heard it from. And the real problem is that I assume Ryan makes up like 80% of my viewership. Awkward (and an even weirder paragraph I guess? I don't know, I just ate a baconator and I'm high off greasy goodness).
Union of Snakes live
Union of Snakes are fucking phenomenal. Not only that, they actually utilize technology! They have a tumblr, post shit on Soundcloud, and upload their demos on mediafire. They also have a heavy Shotmaker influence (they actually list their influences as Shotmaker, Regulator Watts, Rodan, Slint, and A Minor Forest) so whats not to love here? The best part of all this is they emulate the 90s hardcore sound so fucking well. This band has really taken a sound I haven't heard in a while, and they play it to perfection. In fact, they might play this sound a little too well. I sort of believe that they should go ahead and rename their newest EP, "Vol. 2.5," to "Look guys, we really fucking love Shotmaker."
Union of Snakes - "Rising Tied"
Its got everything that you could be looking for: prominent, fantastic bass lines, those sort of subdued, but yelling vocals (its a weird thing to try and describe now that I sit here trying to describe it. It is sort of like, tin canny sounding? Shotmaker sounding? God damn it just fucking listen and you'll get what I mean). If there is one new band to keep your eye on from Japan (and there are a fucking few that have been catching my attention recently), this is one that you should keep up on the top of your list. Hell, follow their tumblr if you use that sort of thing (are a teenage girl) and you'll be doing just fine whenever they do anything; they seem to update it fairly often.
It has really just dawned on me that I use parentheses way too fucking much. Holy shit.
Union of Snakes Vol. 2.5 (aka the we really fucking love Shotmaker EP)
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