Denver-based doomsters In The Company Of Serpents have just announced their brand new album, Lux, due for release May 15. You can check out the first single, “The Fool’s Serpent,” below.
Guitarist/vocalist Grant Netzorg had this to say on the track:
The basic idea of this song is that a tarot reading was done on the fate of humanity should we continue to follow our current trajectory, and it spelled bad news in no uncertain terms. However, divinations like this only portend future events should we not change our path in any way, and we ultimately have the agency to avoid negative outcomes should we decide to change our course when we foresee them.
As such, the message here is not so much that we’re doomed, but that we stand at a critical juncture where we have the opportunity to ultimately change things for the betterment of all. But this will require us to act. The second half of the song appeals to that agency. On the heels of the tarot reading corresponding to the initial doomed question, a second question is posed: ‘What can we do about this?’ The result points to our own fundamental ability to self-empower.
Lux is available to pre-order directly from the band here.
