Snake Nation was a side project of Corrosion of Conformity’s Woody Weatherman featuring fellow CoC-er Mike Dean and Brian Walsby (known for drawing the original artwork for 7 Seconds Walk Together, Rock Together, among other things). I’ve been meaning to post this since I started this blog, and since there seems to be a lot of Corrosion of Conformity buzz on a few other blogs recently I figured now was a good time.
Snake Nation was born from a time of turmoil for CoC. Their singer and bass-player had just left, and finding replacements was not going well. Apparently Woody had some songs kicking around, called up Brian and asked him if he would be into playing on the project. Mike Dean came with a few old songs he had written for CoC just before he left. A few new songs were written. A Blue Cheer cover was thrown in for good measure.
Musically, Snake Nation are somewhere between classic, 1980’s Corrosion of Conformity and Blue Cheer. Really. It’s kind of psychedelic and punk at the same time. The production isn’t so hot, it was recorded on the cheap and they pocketed the budget they didn’t spend. The engineer thought it sounded like Foghat! What’s important is this is the last of the “old” punk CoC sound, before the “new” metal/southern rock CoC took hold. I consider it the lost Corrosion of Conformity record.
For those interested in further reading, I present the following links:
This is Snake Nation's only release. Rumor has it the cassette version has extra tracks. The download is a rip of my personal vinyl. If you contact Brian Walsby, he's been known to make people CDRs for a few dollars.
Snake Nation (1989)
Kritická Situace, or Critical Situation, were from the Czech Republic. This is their one LP from what I can tell… Everything I can find on the internet is in Czech. They used to have a website, but it’s gone… You might be able to find it on the Wayback Machine, but I didn’t feel like looking.
