These Arms Are Snakes

Small causes can have great effects. It means forgetting that big causes can also have their big effects. In music, this is sometimes true and totally the case for Botch. A cult group of the hardcore scene, the combo split in 2002. We cry (and it continues). From his ashes, two phoenixes are born, one, Minus the Bear moves towards a great-class indie rock through his seasons while the other, These Arms Are Snakes, therefore, blends post-punk / hazel / post-hardcore in an ambient brothel where the percussion of rhythms equals only the madness of guitar riffs.
Quickly noticed, quickly signed, assisted by Joe Preston (not to be confused with the Joe Prestion who was playing at The Melvins, among others) on the drums and behind the consoles, the band released two EPs on Jade Tree in 2003 and early 2004 before diving into the big bath with Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home . Electric. Noisy. Dumped. The band then shoots with the biggest: Against me! , Big Business , Cursive , The Blood Brothers , Mastodon , Isis , Pelican to name a few. As many styles as can be found melting-spotted at TAAS.
Two years later, the band handed over the cover with Easter, who took what he added to his mastery, taking the time to install his compositions. Produced by Chris Common who also takes the sticks behind the drums, the album reinforces the band in its path drawing a bubble a bit apart from its paw.
2008 sees the band's return to strength, carried by an album with the renewed sound still produced by Chris Common, Tail Swallower and Dove, as well as two split projects, one with Pelican, the other with... Minus the Bear. Would the buckle be closed?