The Amazing Snakeheads are a Glaswegian trio of indisputable reprobates whose punkish live shows have left grown men weeping, although whether that's from their sheer guttural rock or getting kicked in the balls down the front is unclear. There's is a timeless sense of primal defiance, check out their Tumblr to see how they've reworked their image into eras gone before.Their debut album Amphetamine Ballads is not for prissy pants, it growls and grimaces across filthy blues like a pub fight in Nashville. On opening track, "I'm a Vampire", Dale Barclay serenades his lady the only way he knows how: "She's more fucking beautiful than any woman I've met, and SHE FUCKING KNOWS IT." It pretty much goes from there.
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