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The Chasm at the Mouth of the All

from LUX by In the Company of Serpents

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about

The overarching theme of Prima Materia and the “All is Sound/All is Mind/All is Light” current I mentioned above are chiefly what's at play here. The title of the song, and the opening lyric, "We live in Chasm at the mouth of the All," is meant to confer that we live in an embodied, living universe, or God, if you will. The second line "Her lips are wet with venom and her quarry will fall" is both a homage to a vinyl-only bonus track from one of my all-time favorite records, Sunn 0)) & Boris' Altar, as well as an assertion that, if we live in an embodied universe and it is all of God, God gets what it wants. There are other themes at play as well here: In the second verse we have the lines "The sky above is the celestial womb/ The soil beneath us the seed and our tomb". This is playing with a Nuit/Hadit dynamic from Crowley's infamous Book of the Law, which he posited he had received telepathically from an angelic entity after performing the Headless Rite from the Greek Magical Papyri in the chamber of the great pyramid. The themes of Sex/Life/Death are all fairly intertwined here, and this could function thematically as a sibling of the earlier tune, "Scales of Maat". On that same theme, we all know that our journeys will end in death, and the reality is we must navigate that. In Qabalah, the sephira, Binah, is associated crossing the void of death, and one of its alternate titles is "The Great Sea", and this is what I'm referencing in the lyric "Born unto the universe, The Great Sea we must traverse". I've since come to realize that themes of life and death are utterly intertwined for me & this record. One rather unsettling example of this is that, on the day (and probably down to the hour) that we finished recording this album, we unexpectedly lost my wife's father. The later track, "Nightfall", on which my friend Paul Primus once again performs Viola D'Amore, was used during the memorial service, and is thematically about death and the ends of cycles.

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We live in the chasm at the mouth of the all
Her lips are wet with venom and her quarry will fall
Ride the wave upon her breath
Live as though there isn’t death at all
There is no self, only the all
A world ensouled and magickal

All is light
All is sound
All is mind
All is light

The sky is the vessel, the celestial womb
The soil beneath us, the seed and our tomb
Born unto the universe, the great sea we must traverse
To the place preceding form, Lux Interna set the course

All is light
All is sound
All is mind
All is light

The fire within us is the source of all flame
The vital force unleashed and untamed
Boundless vigor asks not how, it acts upon eternal now
Pure unbridled energy, it seeks at once to set us free

All is light
All is sound
All is mind
All is light

All is light

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from LUX, released May 15, 2020

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In the Company of Serpents Denver, Colorado

IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS traffic 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.

Grant Netzorg: vocals and guitars

Ben Pitts: Bass & Lap Steel Guitars

JP Damron: Drums
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