Snail

Discography

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Albums

Carbon 14 Single CoverSnail - Blood [ buy ]

Released August 4th, 2009 Meteor City Records

Song List:
  1. Mental Models
  2. Sleep
  3. Underwater
  4. Committed
  5. Via/Penny Dreadful
  6. Relief
  7. Blood
  8. Cleanliness
  9. Screen
  10. Not For Me
  11. Blacklight

This was the album 13 years in the making. Armed with old cassette demos and a few new tunes Snail entered the studio in May 2008 to finally record the lost second album. They completed the basic tracks at Matt's studio in Los Angeles and over the next 5 months overdubs were recorded at Mark's home near Seattle. Gear was abused, tube amps were blown and the result was an album that embodied all of Snail's suppressed musical expression - with fury!

Analogous to the slow, relentless power of erosion, SNAIL melts mountains and reshapes earth with their latest offering, "Blood." A band that once shared the stage with Stoner/Doom contemporaries SLEEP, SNAIL embarked on a 13-year sacred journey to Sheol from whence they recently emerged. Crushing proto-metal psychedelic fuzz-fests march on with sweet melodies shrouded by psyched-out oscillations. This is an album that should be measured on the Geologic Time Scale.

"The path to a unique stoner sound is littered with seeds and stems, sick tones and thick riffs—and in this case, with cavernous clean vocals and catchy choruses. In 2009, Blood is an enjoyable departure from the social norms and mores of heaviness" - Decibel Magazine

"I'm digging it...pretty heavy stuff." - Henry Rollins

"Heavy fuzz, psych undertones, grooves spreading over sunny fields and vocals that seem to retain a softness even when shouted" - StonerRock.com

"Where many stoner / sludge / doom bands are often stuck in a bombardment of riffs...Snail has a clear ear for dynamics and subtleties" - Aardschock

"Beatle-esque vocals, perfect songwriting and blazing distortion...Snail kills" - Flight 13

All Channels Are Open EPSnail - All Channels Are Open (EP) [ out of print ]

1994 Big Deal Records

Song List:
  1. Full-Acid
  2. Religious Ecstasy
  3. Coupon Day
  4. Scene
  5. Falling Over The Edge (Originally performed by P.A.S.T.E.)

All Channels Are Open was released about a year after the S/T album and did not receive much label support. It consisted of one song from the S/T album (Full-Acid), three original Snail tunes and a cover of Falling Over The Edge, which was originally performed by Mark's previous band P.A.S.T.E. Falling Over The Edge was created by playing the original P.A.S.T.E. vinyl 7" at the incorrect speed...slowing it down and making it heavier. Mark then laid backmasking and additional vocal tracks over the song. All songs were recorded on cassette 4-track except Full-Acid.

Snail - S/TSnail - S/T [ buy ]

1993 Big Deal Records

Song List:
  1. Deep See Fishin'
  2. Confessions
  3. Sprain
  4. O.D.
  5. Chewing Aspirin
  6. Hard Lung
  7. Full-Acid
  8. Intuition
  9. Lycanthrope
  10. Your Song
  11. R=Theta

Recorded at Razor's Edge Studio in San Francisco, California - the birthplace of Sleep's Holy Mountain. Snail's Self-Titled album was released in 1993 and contributed to the early Stoner Rock era.

"Snail is a way psyched out interstellar mind feast...severely coated with lysergic residue and bongwater." - Snipehunt

"Yes, Yes, YES! All blunt edges and slabs of pounding sound, buy or die" - B-Side

"They fucking rock..." - Magnet

"Distorted trippy fuzz...the kind of experimental lunacy you wish more bands would indulge their talents in." - Splatter Effect

"Big fuzzy guitars that crawl as slow as a big fuzzy slug." - Guitar World

"While Snail's full-throttle jams stand on their own, it's the beastly sludge-tones of the guitars that pulverize me every time. I'm pulp...and I love it." - BAM Magazine

Zines

Carbon 14 Single CoverCarbon 14 #5 7" EP w/Blag Dahlia, Ultra Bide and Cosmic Psychos [ buy ]

1995 Carbon 14 Magazine

Song List:
  1. Star 69 by Blag Dahlia
  2. Kill Me Tender by Ultra Bide
  3. Boris The Spider by Snail
  4. B.I.T. (Very Metal) by Cosmic Psychos

Carbon 14 Single BackSnail, being good friends with Larry and Leslie at Carbon 14 Magazine, were asked to contribute a song to a 7" vinyl maxi-single with 3 other bands. The record was to be distributed in 1995 with a future issue of Carbon 14 and the song had to be a cover tune. Snail chose to cover Boris The Spider by The Who and recorded it on cassette 4track.