NewsSeptember 13, 2013 12:06 AM ET5,718 views

Bridge Nine Records signs Silver Snakes

Official press release: Los Angeles' Silver Snakes have just announced that their second full length, Year of the Snake, is set for an early 2014 digital/CD/vinyl release through Bridge Nine Records. The band's vocalist, guitarist and principle songwriter Alex Estrada said, "We are excited to be working with Bridge Nine Records. A lot of blood went into the new record and it means a lot to us that they believe in what we are doing. This new record is much darker and heavier in different ways than everything we've done before and It's great to be working with people that understand the fact that we have no interest in doing the same thing twice." Year of the Snake is the follow-up to Silver Snakes' 2011 critically acclaimed debut, Pictures of a Floating World, and was named one of Alternative Press' "Most Anticipated Albums of 2013". This new album was produced by the band's own Alex Estrada, whose "day job" is recording bands including Nails, Touché Amore and Joyce Manor. Roger Camaro of No Motive, who co-produced Pictures, worked with Estrada recording drums and basic tracks for the album as well. After the recording process in LA, these new Silver Snakes tracks were sent to Salad Days Studios in Baltimore, MD and mixed by Brian McTernan, whose resume' includes acts influential to Silver Snakes, such as Cave In, Engine Down, Thrice, and Circa Survive. Jay Mass of Defeater then mastered the album. The resulting eleven songs see Silver Snakes going in a darker direction than they had visited on Pictures, and finds their dynamic range expanding. The band has grown louder and more dissonant on tracks like "No Color," while getting quieter and more desolate on tracks like "Lock."

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cacabutt 9/12/2013 9:50:19 PM

no one cares

anonymous 9/13/2013 1:08:10 AM

Olmec is stoked

estep 9/13/2013 3:35:02 AM

Kg and the ringmaster found silver snakes with their metal detectors

anonymous 9/13/2013 5:35:37 AM

Gold Cobra is pissed

SuckMeBeautiful 9/13/2013 6:22:40 AM

*band to break up following release of record*

anonymous 9/13/2013 6:41:03 AM

What the hell is going on with Bridge 9!!!! Your a hardcore label!!! First 6131 Records now Bridge 9. Not saying the music is bad, just both labels are not staying with the hardcore roots.

anonymous 9/13/2013 7:25:36 AM

Bridge9... now hipster crap with lyrics that make no sense. Thank you people for being into Title Fight because you think it makes you cool because now crap like this gets popular.

anonymous 9/13/2013 7:59:07 AM

is that the band with the bleeding kansas dudes?

anonymous 9/13/2013 9:06:22 AM

"What the hell is going on with Bridge 9!!!! Your a hardcore label!!! First 6131 Records now Bridge 9. Not saying the music is bad, just both labels are not staying with the hardcore roots." First off, it's "you're" not "your." Second, B9 was putting out non-hardcore stuff 10 years ago and have continued to, since. Polar Bear Club, Lemuria, What's Eating Gilbert, Sinners & Saints. Yeah, Bleeding Kansas dude or dudes I think.

anonymous 9/13/2013 10:49:00 AM

Their drummer is in HORSE The Band, so that's the only reason I have any interest in this band. I'll check this out once it's realized. It could be cool.

anonymous 9/13/2013 12:39:37 PM

Hopefully this is a good move for B9. They restored my faith with the A&O signing.

anonymous 9/13/2013 12:47:07 PM

Think Horse dude was also in Bleeding Kansas.

anonymous 9/13/2013 12:57:45 PM

Silver Snakes is fcking awesome! hell yeah. stoked about this

anonymous 9/13/2013 2:21:59 PM

great band

anonymous 9/13/2013 7:26:16 PM

Jay Maas can choke on a thousand dicks. Hipster hardcore gays would sck his dck. Defeater is gay ass bullshit. gays!

anonymous 9/14/2013 9:47:36 AM

solid band and good dudes. bass player throws iphones out car windows though.

anonymous 9/15/2013 9:15:40 AM

Polar Bear Club, Lemuria, What's Eating Gilbert, Sinners & Saints all suck and so does B9.

SNOOPY2 9/15/2013 9:31:49 AM

First release is a cassette that everybody will pre-order but nobody actually owns the equipment to play




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