Snakes N' Barrels at the height of their popularity.
Snakes N' Barrels is Pickles' first band. They enjoyed enormous success as a glam metal band in the 1980s. However, they eventually folded due to constant drug abuse, as well as Pickles' growing disdain for the glam metal genre, needing heavier music. After its end, Pickles went on to join Dethklok, while the rest of the members suffered from poverty and sobriety.
When they hold a reunion tour with Pickles, they are all driven insane by the military-developed drug Totally Awesome Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake (Pickles' years of severe drug and alcohol abuse have rendered him "immune to just about every kind of drug", sparing him their fate). According to Murderface, during the concert the other members were "clawing [their] eyes out" and "throwing up acid blood". While the rest of Dethklok doesn't like the band's music, they change their minds after hearing the brutal reunion concert and the recording of the concert which consists of Snakes N' Barrels screaming and gibbering in an insane manner.
Snakes N' Barrels II with new leadsinger, Rikki Kixx.
In Snakes N' Barrels II the band returns to normal and reunites again, but this time without Pickles. They replace him with Rikki Kixx, who helped them rehabilitate due to the "Totally Awesome Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake"'s intended purpose as a mind control drug. They obtain a restraining order against Pickles after Rikki Kixx tells them that he is the reason why they keep doing drugs. This makes Pickles furious, and he decides to go to L.A to sneak into the "SOBERTOWN USA No Drugs Allowed Sober Rock and Roll Show" where they are supposed to play. The band tells Pickles that they are better off without him and Pickles is taken away from them by security. The band goes on stage and starts playing as the more dangerous effects of the "Totally Awesome Sweet Alabama Liquid Snake" take effect, causing ghost snakes to come out of every orifice of their bodies and makes their drug hallucinations visible to the audience members, killing some while the others all start drinking and using drugs as Pickles assaults Rikki for stealing his band. It is unknown of what happened to the band afterwards.
In "Tributeklok", the former members of the Dethklok tribute band Thunderhorse start a Snakes N' Barrels tribute band called "Sepents N' Containers" after being kicked out of Thunderhorse by Dethklok. One of their flyers is seen on a wall advertising their band, only to be covered by a Thunderhorse flyer put up by Nathan.
Band members
Current lineup
- Rikki Kixx- vocals
- Sammy "Candynose" Twinskins- drums
- Antonio "Tony" DiMarco Thunderbottom- bass guitar
- Snizzy "Snazz" Bullets- rhythm guitar, lead guitar (after Pickles' release)
Former members
- Pickles- vocals, lead guitar
Known Snakes N' Barrels songs
- Water Horsey Blues
- Kill You- later covered by Dethklok with Pickles on vocals, released on deluxe edition of the Dethalbum
Trivia
- Snakes N' Barrels is most likely a parody on Guns N' Roses, the name being an example. Other examples include bassist Antonio "Tony" DiMarco Tunderbottom's top hat (a reference to lead guitarist Slash, who later lent guest vocals to an episode in Metalocalypse), Pickles wearing a bandana and singing in a low, baritone style voice (a reference to singer Axl Rose), Rikki Kixx's dancing style (also a reference to Rose), the group's constant drug use, very similar to most of the members of Guns N' Roses, and the majority of the band abandoning their lead singer happening in both bands (several band members left Guns N' Roses, and Pickles was replaced with Rikki Kixx). Rikki Kixx's name is a parody of Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx.
- Although the band is listed as glam metal, "Water Horsey Blues" is more in the style of Guns N' Roses, who is often loosely lumped in with the glam metal scene but technically not having the poppy, power chord-based glam metal sound, embracing more of a classic rock style with punk rock influences. However, "Kill You" is much more able to be classified as glam metal.