The last time we caught up with Electric Python, the quartet was summoning yuletide folk demon Krampus to The Basement a couple Decembers ago with their gnarly brand of hard-driving rock. I’ll quote P.J. Kinzer’s apt description of the sound: “The stoner-rock foursome draws on heavy music that made it to FM radio in the ’70s, like AC/DC and ZZ Top, dragging the sound through the crunchy debris left by ’90s groups like Monster Magnet and Fu Manchu, resulting in a concoction that’ll wallop you like a hit from a well-packed bong.” (P.J. doesn’t mention the New Wave of British Heavy Metal — broadly, my personal favorite branch of the metal family tree — but I hear a bit of that influence in there too.)
If a big dose of back-patch-wearing thunder sounds like exactly what you’ve been looking for, this is your lucky week. The band’s new LP Speed Demon is out Friday, June 19, and they’ll be celebrating Saturday night with a show at The 5 Spot (where they’ll also be selling physical copies on CD and vinyl). The show kicks off at 9 p.m., with support from inventive local heavy-rock outfit Serotonin (dormant for about two decades but recently reunited) and musical polymath Jay Leo Phillips’ coldwave project General Trust.
Electric Python has also submitted to the Scene video evidence of a recent battle with the forces of darkness at pinball bar No Quarter. Check out the music video for “Last Chance,” in which frontman Jeff Hime tests his crazy flipper fingers against the silver-ball prowess of a schemin’ demon, at the top of the post.
It’s like “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” But it’s easier to make sense of, it has Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pinball, and it’s, y’know, metal.
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