Denver doom duo, IN THE COMPANY OF
SERPENTS, will kick off their US live takeover next week. Set to embark on March
6th in Salt Lake City with additional dates added since the initial
announcement, the band will bring their lead-footed tidings to fourteen cities
down the West Coast and into the Southwest, with the tour coming to a halt on March
21st in Wichita. IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS will be
joined a host of ear-bleeders throughout the journey including Top Dead
Celebrity, Ladybird, Gale and more. Comments the band, "Let the waves
of fuzz roll over you, empty your mind, and worship at the throne of
Ohms."
IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS will
be scouring ears with hymns from their Merging In Light EP,
unleashed at the close of 2014. Produced, mixed and mastered by Dave Otero
(Cephalic Carnage, Catheter, Nightbringer, Primitive Man etc.) at Flatline
Audio in Denver, Colorado, Merging In Lightboasts over twenty
chest-heaving minutes of bottom-heavy, riff-sodden, fuzzed out cheerlessness.
The Sludgelord champions the offering calling it, "perfect and
depressing in its sound... a thunderous and downtuned beast. How this duo can
make such a thunderous, epic, filthy, sludgy sound is bewildering." Echoes
And Dust crowns IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS, "...one of the
most exciting bands around in the doom genre," furthering of the EP,
" It's a no frills affair with one eye on the old school and the other on
a more contemporary affair and given time surely they must reap the
dividends." No Clean Singing elaborates, "The music is tank-like in
the roll of its mechanics, the guitar and bass chords so distorted and sludgy
that it seems like an experiment in the most efficient means of sonic spinal
compression, the drum strikes so powerful that they come down like a
pile-driver on concrete. The effect is near-cataclysmic. But oh man, the groove
is so dominant - these are neck-grabbing songs that will bend your head up and
down to their will," while Heathen Harvest adds, "IN THE COMPANY
OF SERPENTS have, yet again, succeeded in crafting a collection of
tunes that are malicious and ugly, while still possessing an irrefutable
catchiness. While the band seems to be embracing and exploiting their time in
the studio for the occasional overdub or sound effect, it should be noted that
they are not doing so at the expense of their live sound. Merging In
Light is easily one of the year's best... Perhaps not as spacey or as
sprawling as Yob, IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTSchannels the same
degree of unbridled anger, but without the occasional glimpse of hope or
transcendence that is often intimated by Mike Scheidt and co."
IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS:
3/06/2015 Bar Deluxe - Salt Lake City, UT w/ Oxcross, Top Dead Celebrity
3/07/2015 Crazy Horse - Boise, ID w/ Oxcross, Top Dead Celebrity, Swamp Shrine
3/09/2015 Highline - Seattle, WA w/ UN, Breag Naofa
3/10/2015 Tonic Lounge - Portland, OR / Burials, Satanarchist, Dispossessed
3/11/2015 Eli's Mile High Club - Oakland, CA w/ Devoid
3/06/2015 Bar Deluxe - Salt Lake City, UT w/ Oxcross, Top Dead Celebrity
3/07/2015 Crazy Horse - Boise, ID w/ Oxcross, Top Dead Celebrity, Swamp Shrine
3/09/2015 Highline - Seattle, WA w/ UN, Breag Naofa
3/10/2015 Tonic Lounge - Portland, OR / Burials, Satanarchist, Dispossessed
3/11/2015 Eli's Mile High Club - Oakland, CA w/ Devoid
3/12/2015 Complex - Los Angeles, CA /Teeth
3/13/2015 The First Universalist Church Of
San Diego - San Diego, CA w/ Old Man Wizard, Garth Algar, Deep Sea Thunder
Beast
3/14/2015 51 West - Phoenix, AZ w/ Twin Giant, Ladybird, Gale
3/14/2015 51 West - Phoenix, AZ w/ Twin Giant, Ladybird, Gale
3/15/2015 Launchpad - Albuquerque, NM w/
End to End, Iceolus, Echoes Of Fallen
3/17/2015 Billiards Back Room - Abilene, TX w/ Adrenal Asphyxia
3/17/2015 Billiards Back Room - Abilene, TX w/ Adrenal Asphyxia
3/18/2015 The Badlands - Austin, TX w/
Mountain Of Smoke, Destroyer of Light + more for the Austin Heavy Music Vol.2
Showcase
3/19/2015 The Double Wide - Dallas, TX w/ Terminator 2, The Spectacle
3/20/2015 The Blue Note - Oklahoma City, OK w/ Idre
3/19/2015 The Double Wide - Dallas, TX w/ Terminator 2, The Spectacle
3/20/2015 The Blue Note - Oklahoma City, OK w/ Idre
3/21/2015 The Crows Nest - Wichita, KS w/
The Serpent Overlord, Idre
Featuring artwork by renowned illustrator Sam
Turner, (Sleep, Speedwolf et al) the EP was released independently on limited
12" colored vinyl and is currently available via the IN THE
COMPANY OF SERPENTS BandCamp page HERE.
Source:
Earsplit PR
