Silver Snakes

Silver Snakes emerged in 2011 as an alternative metal outfit based in Los Angeles once Alex Estrada disbanded his prior hardcore project. Bassist Mike Trujillo, guitarist Jeremiah Bignell, and drummer Garrett Harney joined Estrada in fusing assorted influences into a hard rock approach shaped by the heavy alternative era that followed the 1990s. Although Estrada carried hardcore origins, Latin music and industrial sounds also guided him; the industrial side especially molded the band's aesthetic, which evokes Sleep, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, and Ministry while retaining a modern hardcore bite. Their debut full-length, Pictures of a Floating World, arrived as an energetic, ravenous surge of intensity comparable to At the Drive-In's output nearly a decade earlier in 2001. Subsequent releases grew darker, beginning with the sophomore album Year of the Snake and its heavier, slower sludge textures. Light synth touches entered the mix in 2016 to heighten those industrial qualities on the third album Saboteur, yielding a striking yet savage assault reminiscent of late-era Deftones. The group delivered the gritty and abrasive Death and the Moon in 2019 as their next studio long-player.