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Harmonic universe created by These Arms

â??Horse Girlâ?? features an inter-connectedness of tracks

By Bobby Figlesthaler

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Emitting screams and chants with production emphasis on an electronica vibe that fits like the last puzzle piece, it slides perfectly into the 12-song album.

Rambunctious, obnoxious, highly versatile, danceable, enjoyable â?¦ can you see where I am going with this?

It“s time to get down with These Arms are Snakes and take pleasure in the seduction. Lurking wildly back and forth with clashing guitars and untamed ravaging effects, the range of seductive cries and clamored vocals bring out the punk in These Arms are Snakes.

A perpetual motion keeps the head banging and the band“s latest, “Horse Girl,” sends meaning to those drug-abused addicts, who are coming to cope with their decision-making.

These Arms presents tracks with an explosively new, rugged sound. Emitting screams and chants with production emphasis on an electronica vibe that fits like the last puzzle piece, it slides perfectly into the 12-song album.

Having played with such bands as Fear before the March of the Flames, Fall of Troy and Milwaukee idols Since by Man, These Arms“ sound reverberates off of these musicians and creates a universal sound of harmonic synchronizations and mellow incantations altering into a schizophrenic wave. This type of dramatic transition will draw just about any music lover into this band.

These Arms are Snakes shoot a load of venom in society“s face and force them to ask for another. Some interpret the various compilations on “Easter” as an array of city buildings soon to be demolished and taken over by corporations. This is wrong.

Indeed, the message from many bands, including TAAS, imply in most tracks including “Mescaline Eyes” and “Lady North,” that “things can be better.”

If you believe that you can make a difference, then do something about it. By producing an album with meaningful passion behind the sheer outlandishly eccentric, yet personal titles, These Arms are Snakes seems to take almost a medicinal approach to the songs.

This is a band that seems to ask the listener to use an herbal remedy as an appetizer before pushing play. Hollow-filled rooms will holler back at you as the echo bounces off of the walls and the edge seems to disappear, while you have been taken in by the poison of the snake.

These Arms are Snakes have something to say before we are all doomed by pressure, systems and mediocrity “ their time has come now and it“s “Easter.”

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