This six-song demo is the debut from Little Rock, AR's Snakedriver (featuring Jeremiah Chandler from the almighty Dead City on vocals), and it offers up thick, sludgy, southern-tinged riffing aplenty. For the most part the band takes a fairly straightforward approach that fuses the sludge/doom type of angle with more of a hardcore element (not unlike Seven Sisters of Sleep, etc.) by tossing in some faster-paced power chords and keeping the track times down around two to four minutes apiece. The recording can be just a touch on the muddy side, but that does tend to make sense given the types of influences that are at work herein, and the songwriting's got a good energy to it that keeps things moving forward. The demo was recorded a mere two months ago, but I'm looking forward to hearing more and seeing where the band heads from here. Sure, they're not exactly re-writing any rulebooks, but who gives a shit when the formula is executed properly!? You can stream the entire demo from Bandcamp below:
And if you like what you hear, it's available as a free download:
