Rosetta West is back, and they haven't come to whisper. With their new single, "Snake 25" the blues-rock torchbearers hand over a spiritual saga that steams and then erupts like a sermon at the edge of the void. It's everything we've come to crave from Rosetta West, and it stings like prophecy.
"Snake 25" fangs into your psyche. The song begins in a meditative crawl, Jason X's bass pumping like a heartbeat beneath darkened skies, its frontman Demagore mumbling a story that sounds half dream. Nathan Q. Scratch. When he starts drumming, he cracks the surface like thunder in a revival tent, jolting the track out of its trance and into a full-blown blues-rock exorcism. Demagore's guitar work howls and spirals with chaos.
"Snake 25" goes beyond the standard blues-rock template. It's an experience. You feel it in your bones. You see it behind your eyes.