{"id":97443,"date":"2022-12-28T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=97443"},"modified":"2023-01-05T14:19:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:19:26","slug":"ep-review-snakebite-kiss-speed-is-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-snakebite-kiss-speed-is-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"SNAKEBITE KISS &#8211; Speed Is The Law EP (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>SNAKEBITE KISS<br \/>Speed Is The Law EP<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" height=\"3\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"title3\"><span style=\"color: #c80000;\">Self-released (2022)<\/span><br \/><strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/snakebitekiss_speedisthelawep.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here is some sneering courtesy of what is essentially a black n\u2019 roll act from Seattle, Washington force fed on a diet of Mot\u00f6rhead, Tank and Venom. I hear this sort of clattering a lot, mostly from the South American region where bands seem to have nailed the nastiness, but this six song debut affair is a rather enjoyable romp through the layers of old stained denim n\u2019 leather.<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist \/ guitarist Reptile has that predictable drunken snarl that propped up several releases from Neat Records back in the early-to-mid 80s, and all around him there\u2019s a satanic tumult going on as Warw\u00fclf (lead guitar), Sixes (bass) and Speed II (drums) drive along to that generic yet earthy speed metal rattle which makes tracks such as \u2018Sex Bitch\u2019, \u2018Speed Is The Law\u2019 and \u2018Dirty Dogs From Hell\u2019 so hellish and yet humorous.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, such is the greasy nature of each track that they all basically bleed into one barroom cacophony, whereby glasses are thrown across the room and chairs smashed over the heads of those in attendance and all to the roar of the biker gang parked up outside. This is rowdy, raucous rock \u2018n\u2019 roll for trouble makers everywhere and with not a whiff of subtlety amongst the sulphur, burning rubber and alcohol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNAKEBITE KISSSpeed Is The Law EP Self-released (2022)Rating: 7\/10 Here is some sneering courtesy of what is essentially a black n\u2019 roll act from Seattle, Washington force fed on a diet of Mot\u00f6rhead, Tank and Venom. I hear this sort of clattering a lot, mostly from the South American region where bands seem to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-snakebite-kiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97444,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97443\/revisions\/97444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}