In The Company Of Serpents Returns With "Endless Well"

Denver's IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS have announced the details for their upcoming album, A Crack In Everything, to be self-released on July 11th. Accompanying the reveal of the album artwork, tracklist, and pre-order information is the record's first single "Endless Well," featuring guest vocals from Jeff Owens of Goya.

Guitarist/vocalist Grant Netzorg comments on the album, "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.

“Thematically, light as a sort of metaphysical prima materia has been an ongoing theme throughout our last several releases: Lux, Ain-Soph Aur (‘Limitless Light’ in Hebrew), and Merging In Light. While we don't have light in the title itself, it is there by implication. Here the light functions as a force of salvation, peering with some difficulty, but inevitably, into the darkness. In this sense it reminds me of a Hebrew phrase a Kabbalist teacher of mine shared with me: ‘Dlayt atar panui meenay,’ which translates roughly to ‘there is no place empty of (the divine).’ This light pierces even the darkest depths.  

“The record, as a whole, also functions as a sort of ‘cord-cutting’ ritual. The gist of this operation is that one envisions all undesired elements of themselves personified as a sort of grotesque being. This being is tethered to them, and the heft of this ritual is severing that connection and banishing this being.”

 Netzorg elaborates on the track, “This song has its musical roots in the song ‘Moonlight On Vermont’ by Captain Beefheart, off the album Trout Mask Replica. There's a great, jangly riff which opens that tune, and in the back of my mind I always thought that it could be tweaked into an immense, heavy groove. So we wrote the intro riff around that idea, and the song began to develop from there, but that is where the resemblance ends.

“Lyrically, this song deals with the anxiety, exhaustion, sense of defeat, and maladies both physical and mental that accompany heavy alcoholism. The opening lines, ‘Wasted and worn, running on fumes. Watching the horizon for the mushroom cloud blooms,’ are about daydreaming for some cataclysm to come along and wipe the collective slate clean. There's a glimmer of hope in the ending lines, however, which seek to crawl out of this self-imposed hole: "Resurrection, or perhaps rebirth? A fierce rejection of this state: inert."

On collaborating with Owens, Netzorg continues, “When I initially asked him to contribute, he mentioned that all my initial choices around cadence, melody, etc. were pretty much what he would have gone for, so he tried out some other approaches in lieu of just doubling my takes. This resulted in some cool, soaring melodies that remind me of some of my favorite bangers from the grunge era. It's definitely not a direction I'd have thought to have taken the material, and it's stronger for Jeff's choices here.”

Pre-order A Crack In Everything HERE.

A Crack In Everything tracklist:
1. Don't Look In The Mirror
2. A Patchwork Art
3. Delirium
4. Cinders
5. Endless Well
6. Buzzard Logic
7. Tremens
8. Until Death Darkens Our Door
9. Ghosts On The Periphery

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