Circle of Snakes is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Danzig.

[8] Danzig's vocals are less prominent on most songs; instead the guitars, bass and drums are at the top of the album's mix.

[7] Circle of Snakes marked the first Danzig recording to feature guitar work by Tommy Victor of Prong.

[9] The song "Skull Forrest" originated from a dream experienced by Glenn Danzig, in which he walked "through a corridor full of bones and rotting corpses, and people's faces I knew.

It served as promotion for the album, finding airplay on the Sirius Satellite Radio station Hard Attack.