Photo credit: Kate Rose
Denver sludge/doom trio, In The Company Of Serpents, are joining Goya for a two-and-a-half-week run of US live dates. The trek kicks off on October 9th in Amarillo, Texas, and runs through October 26th in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Goya’s Jeff Owens will be performing guest vocals on “Endless Well,” from In The Company Of Serpents’ new full-length, A Crack In Everything, released earlier this year (read our review here). Keep reading below for live listings and more.
Buy A Crack In Everything here: https://inthecompanyofserpentsdoom.bandcamp.com/album/a-crack-in-everything
Comments guitarist/vocalist Grant Netzorg, “We are thrilled to be hitting the road with Goya again. We toured with them almost eight years ago, and it remains one of the best experiences I’ve had playing music. I adore Goya and their new record smokes. I can’t wait to hear them play it each night.”
Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below:
10/09/2025 The Atomic Yellow – Amarillo, TX
10/10/2025 The Lost Well – Austin, TX
10/11/2025 Ruins – Dallas, TX
10/12/2025 Whittier Bar – Tulsa, OK
10/14/2025 The Crypt – Denver, CO
10/15/2025 Aces High Saloon – Salt Lake City, UT
10/16/2025 The Shredder – Boise, ID
10/17/2025 Ray’s Golden Lion – Richland, WA
10/18/2025 The High Water Mark – Portland, OR
10/19/2025 Substation – Seattle, WA
10/21/2025 The Dip – Redding, CA
10/22/2025 Bottom Of The Hill – San Francisco, CA
10/23/2025 Dark Nectar – San Luis Obispo, CA
10/24/2025 The Moroccan Lounge – Los Angeles, CA
0/25/2025 Eleven10 Motogarage – Phoenix, AZ
10/26/2025 Moonligt Lounge – Albuquerque, NM * No Goya
In The Company Of Serpents traffics in sonic catharsis. Their music inhabits the strange fringes between sludge metal and sprawling Spaghetti Western scores, constantly striving for visceral power and raw intensity, contrasted with eerie, spare instrumental passages.
The band formed in 2011 as a two-piece sludge/doom-focused project between guitarist/vocalist Grant Netzorg and drummer JJ Anselmi, author of the books Doomed To Fail and Heavy. While Anselmi soon moved to California to pursue teaching and writing, the duo recorded the band’s debut together that year, releasing it in early 2012. The sound quickly evolved beyond the confines of sludge/doom, and they continue to paint from a broad palette of influences across the heavy music spectrum. Netzorg has continued on with the project, releasing four LPs, including 2020’s critically acclaimed Lux, an EP, and a standalone single since their inception. In 2023, drummer Andy Thomas (Only Thunder, Tin Horn Prayer) joined Netzorg and bassist/lap steel guitarist Ben Pitts (Nightwraith, Abhoria) to begin work on this year’s A Crack In Everything.
While previous work focused largely on occult and esoteric themes, A Crack In Everything, the band’s fifth full-length, delves deeply into themes of personal struggle, depression, and grappling with addiction. Threads of esotericism still weave their way throughout the record, however A Crack In Everything stands apart as a deeply personal effort.
Elaborates Netzorg, “A Crack In Everything takes its title from my favorite Leonard Cohen song, ‘Anthem,’ from his masterpiece, The Future. The chorus includes the line, ‘There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.’ This suits the overall themes of the album perfectly. I wrote it during and after a losing battle with alcohol, and a lot of this deals with the despair and darkness I discovered in that time. I felt defeated, physically and mentally, and was drifting into ever-deepening depression.”
“Despite this, I tried to remain creatively active as I was going through it. While most of the material from those lowest moments was insufferable garbage, we were able to glean some pearls of anguish from it and transmute them into songs we liked. This album often deals with horrors of crippling addiction, but there are glimpses of the way out through personal transformation. I recognized that killing myself slowly but surely made me a poor excuse for a father and husband and resolved to claw my way out of those shadows. There is a crack in everything – that’s how the light gets in.”
A Crack In Everything was recorded at World Famous Studios in Denver, Colorado and engineered by Pete deBoer. All songs were tracked to tape on a vintage Neve console “big and complex enough to oversee a lunar landing, or just lunatic riffs.” The record features artwork by tattoo artist Mike Lawrence [mikeillustrated.com] and is available on CD and digital formats.
“The riffs are simple but huge, the production makes the whole thing heavier than a sack of spanners, and the overall effect is undeniably compelling. If you want to experience being pulped by a herd of slowly stampeding elephants, then just listen to A Crack In Everything.” – Ghost Cult
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