We’re about to premiere a song that’s simultaneously sinister and seductive, crushing and narcotic, alternately bone-smashing and anguished. Somehow it’s both visceral and elaborate, and ultimately both very unsettling and irresistibly captivating.

The success of the California band Shadow Limb in creating such contrasts and then turning them into complements of each other is impressive, and so is their skill in drawing together differing genre elements in order to do so.

The name of the song, which appears on the band’s new album Reclaim, is “Snake Mountain“, and it’s likely we’d be thinking of snakes while listening, regardless of the title. Continue reading »