Our resident hard rock band is in Great Britain, has never made a tour of the U.S., but they plan on doing one soon. In the meantime they keep us supplied with their latest creations, this one concerning the hazards of the Black Widow spider! Contrary to popular belief, the bite of a black widow is seldom lethal, but that wouldn't want us to try a bite to find out! Their bite is still quite toxic and can cause some nasty symptoms like muscle cramps and spasms, muscle pain, abdominal cramps, excessive sweating, and heart rhythm issues. These symptoms can last from 3 days to weeks! Very rarely is there a fatality caused by the bite, usually in someone with complicating health issues.
And the band draws a parallel between the perils of the spider and...a woman, in that the female black widow spider kills the male after mating and cannibalizes it! Probably not going to make this a popular song among women, but among hard rockin' ladies, who knows? This song is unique in that one of the band members plays an amplified cello that can be heard in the introduction and continues throughout. Their previous song Take No Prisoners used an electric violin. We've learned that 4 members of the band went to music school together, and had a string quartet for a few years that played extensively at the school and other venues! They played most of the standard string quartet repertoire, and how they came to shift their focus to hard rock must be an interesting story we here at Big And Tall Records hope to hear some time!
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