Flying Vipers emerged from a basement lair outside Boston Mass in 2015, releasing a couple cassette EPs worth of raw yet highly melodic dub (The Green Tape and The Copper Tape). Entirely produced on an antiquated 4-track cassette recorder and mixed live by Jay Champnay of 10 Ft. Ganja Plant, this amateur equipment is wielded by seasoned pros as their songs mutate with a keen sense of classic JA sounds and post-punk experimentation.

Typically a 7-piece unit live, the core quartet of twin brothers Marc & John Beaudette on drum & bass (Destroy Babylon, The Macrotones), Zack Brines on keys (Pressure Cooker, 10 Ft Ganja Plant, Kings of Nuthin’), and Kellee Webb on vocals (DB, Tiger Witch) have 20+ years in the New England scene, sharing the stage with legendary reggae acts from around the world, including Burning Spear, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Steel Pulse, the Skatalites, and Hollie Cook, among many others.

2017 saw the band release a vinyl 45 on Jump Up Records featuring Jamaican legend Johnny Clarke, as well as a Cassette Store Day exclusive EP, The Shadow Tape on Music ADD.

The band embraced their punk roots by covering all of Black Flag’s first EP in heavy dub style (2019’s Nervous Breakdub) on the 40th anniversary of the original release.

In February 2020, the Vipers may have been begrudgingly prophetic when they released the single “Two Twenties Clash”, as shortly after the world turned upside down dealing with the Covid-19 crisis. While in quarantine, they released a couple reworked dubs as Pandemic Versions.

Flying Vipers released their first full length album, Cuttings, in July 2020 on Jump Up Records. Featuring 12 instrumental tracks, Flea Market Funk called it “one of the top reggae records of the year.”

2024 sees the band releasing “Show Me” on 7″ vinyl, their debut for Easy Star Records and their first tune to feature Kellee Webb’s soulful lead vocals. The tape recorder survived long enough for more dubwise nugs to come – stay tuned.