Get Down With Public Serpents!
Public Serpents combine the fast-faster-fastest aesthetic of hardcore with the funky ska-core dancehall wildness of alt-pop. Very alt. Led by former Choking Victim drummer Skwert, the six-piece, from Middletown in Monmouth County, won’t have their SBAM Records debut ready until March 24, but the first single, “Not Forever,” can be streamed now. Play it loud. Very loud.
Born in 2008 with their The Feeding Of The Fortune 500 album, they’ve been featured on splits with UpperDowner and Escape From The Zoo. Skwert is nothing if not a survivor. He’s been in jail. He’s been homeless. He’s been divorced. He channeled his pain into composing all 13 tracks on the highly-anticipated new album. It’s all or nothing. As he says, “my whole life is invested in this. Artistically, physically and mentally, I’d probably die without it…there literally would be no point in living at this point.”
Last year, Public Serpents toured internationally with The Suicide Machines and Catbite hitting the Manchester England Punk Festival as well as a Hungarian bomb shelter in Budapest. Upcoming shows include 2/10 in Wallingford CT at Cherry St. Station, 2/11 in Boston at Brighton Elks, 2/17 in Pittsburgh at 222 Ormsby, 2/18 in Cleveland at No Class, 2/19 in Columbus OH at The Stoop, 3/10 in Detroit at Garden Bowl, 3/11 in Indianapolis at Melody Inn, 3/12 in Chicago at Liars Club and 4/29 in New York City at Kingsland. On April 28, the band will celebrate the release of the new album with a Jersey party in Montclair at The Meat Locker.