In The Company Of Serpents announces US tour dates surrounding Asheville Doomed And Stoned Fest this July!

Photo by Kate Rose

Denver, Colorado based sludge/doom metal trio In The Company Of Serpents will return to the road this Summer on a short run of live dates surrounding their appearance at this year’s edition of the Asheville Doomed And Stoned Fest alongside Howling Giant, Duel, -(16)-, Order Of The Owl, and more. The trek begins on July 15th in Kansas City, Missouri and runs through July 23rd in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Comments guitarist/vocalist Grant Netzorg, “In the fifteen years we’ve been a band, it’s a shame we’ve never really had the opportunity to tour the South. We’ve played St. Louis and Oklahoma City previously, but, beyond that, pretty much every gig on this run will be in a town that’s new to us. We’re thrilled that our appearance at this year’s Asheville Doomed And Stoned fest is giving us the opportunity to finally hit these parts of the country.”

Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.

In The Company Of Serpents Live:
7/15/2026 Sk8bar – Kansas City, MO
7/16/2026 Fubar – St Louis, MO
7/17/2026 Cobra – Nashville, TN
7/18/2026 Asheville Doomed & Stoned – Asheville, NC
7/19/2026 Firehouse – Birmingham, AL
7/20/2026 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
7/21/2026 Black Magic Social – Houston, TX
7/22/2026 The Lost Well – Austin, TX
7/23/2026 89th Street – Oklahoma City, OK

In The Company Of Serpents will be touring in support of their most recent studio album, »A Crack In Everything«, released independently last year.

In The Company Of Serpents was forged 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. Although 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 five LPs, including the critically acclaimed »Lux« (2020), and »A Crack In Everything« (2025), both of which were the only DIY releases to earn accolades in Decibel Magazine’s annual top album rankings in their release years.

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.

Find orders at the In The Company Of Serpents Bandcamp HERE.

Watch In The Company Of Serpents’ previously released video for »A Patchwork Art« HERE.

“The light and dark sides of the song continue to do battle, until the doom ultimately snuffs out any whiff of the Old West. This is just full-on dire sludge, no apologies.” – Decibel Magazine on »A Patchwork Art«

“In The Company Of Serpents so expertly combine the heft of doom and the general ambience of Colorado and the Mountain region it’s in. It takes a palmful of dirt and smacks it on the haunches of their metal music to grit it up.” – Everything Is Noise

“…a powerful sojourn into the depths of darkness, through riffs of mile high doom and gloom, a document not of a victim but as a survivor.” – New Noise Magazine

“…while there’s an undeniable sense of weight and thick, almost oppressive, presence to songs such ‘Endless Well’ and ‘Ghosts On The Periphery’ there’s also an undercurrent of something more subtle – an unexpected lightness of being, perhaps – which feels like the sloughing off of old scars and the beginnings, at least, of some long-sought catharsis manifesting in moments like the melancholy clean vocals of the former and the somber atmospherics of the latter.” – No Clean Singing

“It’s not often that a band almost 15 years into their career has hit their stride, but In The Company Of Serpents prove to do so with »A Crack In Everything«.” – Heavy Music HQ

“…a well-crafted saga of darkness and light, and In The Company Of Serpents have proven themselves as standouts in the genre.” – Out Of Rage

“…their most personal and emotionally raw album to date.” – Capital Chaos

Courtesy of Earsplit PR

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well