Sonny Vincent Offers “Snake Pit Therapy” On New Album

Born in New York City and raised on its streets and in its clubs, Sonny Vincent is infamous from NYC punk fire-starters Testors, who from ’75 to ’79 were attitude-laden fixtures on the CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City scenes. Snake Pit Therapy is raw, real-deal blazing protopunk with lashings of psychedelia and hard rock, all taken to the edge with Vincent‘s secret weapons: the naked aggression in his passionate voice and his trademark caustic guitar. If there is an honesty which runs through the bones in Snake Pit Therapy, it’s because Vincent’s life and antics are more than legend; they are real, as documented in his recent book bearing the same title as the album.

In and out of homes for bad kids, committed to the psych ward for observation and forcibly conscripted into a tour of duty in Vietnam courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corp, Vincent’s experience of wild and tough living has awarded his songs hardness with humanity. Sincerity without mawkishness, Snake Pit Therapy is a glorious testament to real rock ‘n’ roll.

You can get Snake Pit Therapy via Svart Records