Serpents Unleashed

After a decade as a band, five albums, and enough miles logged in tour vans and planes to have circumnavigated the Earth several dozen times, Athens, Ohio, metal diehards Skeletonwitch have released their best collection to date.

Skeletonwitch is a heavy-metal band, but heaviness has never been its bottom line. In four albums over the past 10 years, the Ohio quartet has evolved from the blackened, mid-fi thrash of 2004’s At One With The Shadows to the far slicker attack of 2011’s Forever Abomination. That disregard for full-blooded low-end has…

It's rare for an album's title to describe how it sounds, but on Serpents Unleashed, the fifth outing from Athens, Ohio band Skeletonwitch, it's strangely appropriate.

Quickly turning into ol' reliables of the neo-thrash circuit, SKELETONWITCH make next to no modifications to their turbulent speed routine for their fifth album, "Serpents Unleashed". If you've heard their 2007 breakout "Beyond the Permafrost" or their previous recording, "Forever Abomination", then...

A review of Serpents Unleashed by Skeletonwitch, available October 28th in Europe and the 29th in North America via Prosthetic Records.