Club's tongue-in-cheek feature The Year in Band Names. The band's deliberately silly moniker also earned it a spot in the 2006 edition of The A.V. Venom enjoyed great critical success in the band's home state of Minnesota, being named one of the best albums of 2006 in the Star Tribune's annual Twin Cities Critics Tally and also making the best-of lists for The A.V. On October 15, 2021, Venom was re-released on vinyl by Stand Up! Records, with the four songs from Snake Cake included as bonus tracks. Paul, Minnesota the same night as the release show for The Soviettes' retrospective Rarities album. The duo's last show as Awesome Snakes was on March 19, 2010, at the Turf Club in St. In 2009, the band released a four-song digital EP, Snake Cake, on Minneapolis' Ass Records.

The band appears on the 2008 Crustacean Records double-disc DVD retrospective Drown Out the Daylights. It featured fifteen tracks recorded in much higher fidelity than the debut cassette by their friend Ross and mastered by Dave Gardener, and features a guest appearance by Twin Cities MC P.O.S.

Their second album, Venom, was released July 17, 2006, on Wisconsin record label Crustacean Records.

In 2004, the cassette-only indie label Home Taping Is Killing the Record Industry released the band's self-titled debut. Club writer Christopher Bahn noted that the song topics revolve around 'two subjects: snakes and/or things that are awesome.' The instrumentation is deliberately simple, just Holoien on bass and Henry on drums, with the bass played through a Fender Blues Deville amplifier on high distortion.

Holoien and Henry, renaming themselves 'Annie Awesome' and 'Danny Snakes', started the duo as a way to ease the pressure by making what Henry described as a 'jokey' and 'free and loose' set of punk songs, spiced with audio samples from Henry's collection of odd self-help and how-to tapes. The Awesome Snakes grew out of the Soviettes as a side project in 2004, when the Soviettes were touring nationally and earning increasing critical buzz.

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