Live track= confirmation that there's NO WAY in hell I'd be able to sit still during a live Mere Vipere eargasm! (As I have always assumed) Totaly lovin the newer stuff, and of course still addicted to the oldeer ones too! xo
The show at Plaza bowl was an incredible one for Vipere. The 3 band line-up was conspicuously incongruous (not always a bad thing), though none of them slacked in their respective arenas. La Mere Vipere's music is the kind of which that can only result from tight-nit personal bonds forged over many tumultuous years of creative struggle. A lot of patience and trust is needed to develop compositions so intricate. Frustratingly undefinable, this band can be confoundingly progressive without pretence; destructive and uplifting, like a nuclear Phoenix of heavy-rock.
The addition of another ex-Seven Heart on guitar provides the what-now-seemed-missing layer in the overall form, in much the same function as the old group -- tying slicing leads to cannonfire basslines with heavy-ballistic riffs, upping the ante, challenging the song as a whole without overcomplicating it.
Brendan (though I'm still learning his name) is the only drummer I've met who could fill the shoes of Alex Tomlin in this band, which is an unfathomable task for most able drummers. To execute such arrangements with speed and accuracy takes a great deal of mental ability as well as raw talent, impossible to fake.
I can't wait to hear the new album, nearing completion. This band needs to be taken seriously.
