I had more or less forgotten about it until reading the bit about the snakes in the below press release, but way back in September 2009, I interviewed Gentry Densley of Eagle Twin and he spoke about some of these themes that are apparently set up to play out on the band’s forthcoming sophomore outing, The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale. Good to know this stuff has been brewing with the duo for a while.

Chalk up another one to look forward to:

Salt Lake City-based heavy rock duo Eagle Twin have completed their anticipated sophomore LP and are preparing to devastate forward-thinking riff-seekers once again in 2012.

Titled The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale, the new Eagle Twin opus picks up right where the band’s acclaimed debut LP, The Unkindness of Crows, left off. In this installment, the crows documented in the first album have battled the sun and were burned back down to earth as black snakes, the concept of the album continuing mainly on the snake and its various mythic and symbolic incarnations. Ultimately the great ancestral snake is transformed from its lowly beginnings back into a bird soaring upon the thermals. Recorded with Randall Dunn in London Bridge Studio, also as with the first album, the record boasts some of the most mesmerizing and monstrous riff transformations from Eagle Twin to date.

Eagle Twin merges the talents of guitarist Gentry Densley of legendary post-hardcore/jazz icons Iceburn with the thunderous percussion of Tyler Smith formerly of Form of Rocket. Following a cult split 7″ with Night Terror in 2009, Eagle Twin‘s incredibly potent and unique, multifaceted approach became apparent to the world when their debut album, The Unkindness of Crows, stormed doom and experimental music fans later that year.

Tags: Eagle Twin, Salt Lake City, Southern Lord, Utah

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