Honour, Metal & Respect With NEVILLE PEARCE From SNAKE MOUNTAIN

Interview by Kris Peters
They say good things come to those who wait, and if that's the
case, Gold Coast melodic technical death metal outfit Snake
Mountain have some damn fine times ahead of them.
Rather than trying to force themselves onto the international
support rollercoaster from the outset, Snake Mountain have
preferred to bide their time, practising, waiting, and networking
until they felt their product was of high enough standard to put
out there.
It has been a long and sometimes painful path to the open market,
but one gets the impression it will bear the fruits of progress
much sooner rather than later.
In recent months, Snake Mountain have opened for international
heavyweights Fleshgod Apocalypse and Wolfheart, as well as teaming
up with Australian royalty in Black Rheno and Witchgrinder, in the
process proving their suitability and diversity on any metal lineup
as long as it's loud.
Following the release of two crushingly brutal singles - Everliving
and Extinction Through Fire - Snake Mountain are in the final
stages of the long-awaited release of their debut EP Villainous 1:
Reverence on July 5. Not content to give the fans new music, the
boys have also announced a string of shows along the East Coast
over June, July and August so they can share their musical
triumphant far and wide.
HEAVY cornered Snake Mountain frontman Neville Pearce to find out
more.
"I'm pretty excited about it," he measured when asked about the
looming release date. "And I am nervous for people to hear it
because I guess it represents where we've been. It's part of a
bigger picture that we're trying to paint. We put a lot into it -
it's only four tracks - but it shows the different mini-era's of
the band and the different members influences that have weaved in
and out throughout that time. And I'm really proud of that. That's
exactly what the title is in reference to is paying those
respects."
We ask Pearce to dive deeper into the music side of the EP.
"It's - as we said before - each song represents, not only the
members, but I guess the year they were written," he explained.
"The first track, Extinction Through Fire, which we recently
released digitally, goes right back to the beginning with Dan
Maynard. Then we've got Hunted which was with Dan Maynard, and we
have that one with Jamie and Dario then it goes on to All Of
Eternia which was Dario and Jamie, and it progresses from there
onto the last track Everliving, which was the last single we
released. You can sort of tell within those styles how the band has
changed and where we've come to now. Which doesn't really represent
who we are now with our technical stuff, but it's definitely part
of the journey." 
In the full interview, Neville discusses the length of time it took
Snake Mountain to release their debut EP and why, the timeline of
each song and what part of the band's history it represents,
scoring support slots and what it means to the band, the guest
artists on the EP and what they brought to the sound, his
transformation from one of the good guys off-stage to a raging
demon on, their upcoming shows and more.


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