The Raven Age release haunting video for new single Serpents Tongue

Ahead of the release of new album Blood Omen in July, The Raven Age have shared their next single from the record.

Entitled Serpents Tongue, the soaring track felt “very special” to the band right from the off, according to singer Matt James. “It’s that perfect balance between melodic and heaviness,” Matt explains. “There are so many different styles going on, but they all work and complement each other as a whole.”

Guitarist George Harris adds, “Serpents Tongue is one of our favourites from the album and we knew it’d be a single straight away. Conceptually, the song is about deceit and lies, how you can only truly trust yourself and the loneliness that comes with that.”

Of the accompanying video, he reveals that it “was shot at Revesby Abbey in Lincolnshire, which is an old derelict manor house that was also used to house American fighter pilots during the war. The concept is a play on the title Serpents Tongue and is based around the character Medusa. We wanted to create a B-movie horror theme, in a haunted house/Addams Family style and have some fun with it. So that’s where the idea of having other creepy characters like the mummy, werewolf and three eyed man came from. They’re all invited along to a dinner party for the weird and wonderful, Medusa is taking orders from the Raven King and turns the guests to stone.”

Watch the video below:

Catch The Raven Age on their newly-announced headline tour:

October

12 Krakow Kamienna 12
15 Helsinki On The Rocks Club
17 Stockholm Nalen Klubb
18 Copenhagen Pumpehuset
20 Berlin Badehaus
22 Prague Futurum
24 Hannover Musikzentrum
25 Uden Del Pul
27 Paris La Maroquinerie
29 Milan The Legend Club
30 Zurich The Plaza
31 Munich Strom

November

2 Dortmund FZW
3 Antwerp Kavka
5 London Lafyette
7 Manchester Academy 3
8 Glasgow Attic
10 Dublin Academy 2
11 Belfast Limelight 2
13 Birmingham Asylum
15 Bristol Exchange

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