Urne announce debut album ‘Serpent & Spirit’

March 5, 2021 James Weaver

URNE have announced their debut album!

Titled Serpent & Spirit, the upcoming album from the London-based metal trio is their debut full-length effort and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Candelight Records. The debut full-length album arrives three years since their debut EP; The Mountain of Gold.

Due to COVID-19, the final parts of the album were written over Skype, before being recorded by Chris Fielding [CONAN, ELECTRIC WIZARD, PRIMORDIAL] at Foel Studios in deepest Wales during lockdown. It was then sent to acclaimed producer Jens Bogren who handled the mastering of the album.

“I had a bit of a bad patch for a few months,” explains bassist Joe Nally, revealing the inspiration for the album’s lyrics. “I’m absolutely fine now, but I drew on those two months where I just wasn’t feeling great. I took that and wrote a story based about that. The actual track-listing is done like that film Memento, where it’s all in a different order. Maybe one day someone will listen to the lyrics and work out which order the story goes in. The album is called Serpent & Spirit. The spirit is the human experience, the serpent is the evil that tricks your mind. It’s about getting pulled apart and trying to find yourself within all of that. So it’s almost good and evil, and throughout the album it’s about a person getting pulled from the light to the dark.”

Alongside the announcement of the debut album, URNE have released the first song to be lifted from the forthcoming release; Desolate Heart.

Listen to Desolate Heart here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming debut album below:

Track List:

1. Serpent & Spirit
2. The Palace of Devils & Wolves
3. Memorial
4. Moon & Sky
5. Desolate Heart
6. Envy The Dead
7. Memorial – Sing Me To Rest
8. A Tomb So Frail

And that’s not all from the URNE camp! The band have announced a short run of UK tour dates for July this year, a time when hopefully COVID-19 restrictions are lifted as per the UK government’s lockdown release plan.

Tour dates are as follows:

Wed 7th July – Bournemouth – Anvil
Thu 8th July – London – The Black Heart
Fri 9th July – Birmingham – Dead Wax
Sat 10th July – Manchester – Star & Garter