The Awesome Snakes were a two-person punk rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, featuring Annie "Sparrows" Holoien (The Soviettes, The God Damn Doo Wop Band) on bass and Danny Henry (The Soviettes, France Has The Bomb, International Robot) on drums.

Club writer Christopher Bahn noted that the song topics revolve around "two subjects: snakes and/or things that are awesome.

"[7] In 2004, the cassette-only indie label Home Taping Is Killing the Record Industry released the band's self-titled debut.

[18] In 2019, Holoien and Henry formed a new rock quartet, Green/Blue, with former members of two other Minneapolis punk bands, The Blind Shake and Birthday Suits.

"[30][5] The publication was less impressed with Venom itself, saying: "Overall, this seems like a joke band that must be really funny for the people who made it, but for the rest of us it's worth listening to maybe once at the most.

"[31] Reviewing the 2021 re-release, Jake Austen of Roctober Magazine said "This reissue of an early 2000s Midwestern ridiculous riff rock relic proves that nothing is as timeless as lo fi, stripped down, absurdist snake songs.