In The Company of Serpents to Drop Album on Vinyl
by Tim Wenger
Doom rockers In The Company of Serpents, who have worked their name to the forefront of Denver’s sludge metal scene, are dropping a new record. Sludge metal legend Billy Anderson (I Hate God, High on Fire) mixed and mastered the album, which will be available early to mid September.
The record will be released on vinyl with hand designed packaging done by Mike Lawrence. The guys are stoked to be putting out an actual album with solid artwork and a packaging, something tangible for their fans to have instead of just a digital download. “He did a really cool detailed black and white cover and back cover,” says front man Grant Netzorg. “It’s going to be something that we enclose in another envelope. We’re getting an envelope printed to enclose that cover, the true cover of the record.” The package will contain a few other surprises as well.
This release will be a full length album, released as a two-sided LP. “We consider it a full album but I’m sure some people will call it an EP because it’s 32 minutes long,” says Netzorg. “In terms of songs, there are basically two songs on each side that are five to ten minutes long a piece, and then a couple of instrumental intros. We played a little bit with atmospherics and stuff. I also used a lap steel guitar that I tune to an open minor tuning that I use for a drone that we play in the background. For lack of better descriptions, a lot of atmospheric type things in this record.”
For those unfamiliar with the band’s sound, they are a sludgy two piece that brings it harder than most three or four piece groups. Netzorg, the lone stringed instrumentalist in the band, brings both the treble and bass effect to the group. “I’ve got a full bass rig, Sun Head running through an Ampeg 8×10 cab, and then a full stack running through a Fender head for the guitar side,” says front man Grant Netzorg. “I play them both full blast pretty much the entire time. It’s all guitar, but it’s a baritone guitar, and I tune to A. It’s bassy enough that it’s no problem running through a bass rig.”
The band is able to recreate their recorded sound very well when playing live. “The only thing you’re not hearing in our live performance is just that drone on the lap steel,” says Netzorg. “The recordings are very indicative of how we sound. We both burn a ton of energy every single show. We are very much a live band and we love playing live, so you’re not going to hear some weird studio trickery on our record that we would be unable to reciprocate live.”
Catch In The Company of Serpents at Snowboard on the Block September 14 with the likes of Pentagram and The Adolescents.
Online: inthecompanyofserpents.bandcamp.com
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