GOYA | IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS

Formed in 2011 by guitarist and vocalist Jeffrey Owens, Goya's 2012 demo showcased their early potential, but it was their debut full-length "777" (2013) that announced their fearsome arrival in the doom underground. With sprawling, riff-heavy compositions and occult-tinged lyrics, "777" resonated deeply with fans of titanic sludge-metal. Continuing to evolve, Goya released "Obelisk" in 2015, a concept album that refined their blend of psychedelic doom. They followed this with their magnum opus, 2017's "Harvester of Bongloads", another concept album that leaned as heavily as ever into their fuzz-laden, riff-driven aesthetic and further cemented their legacy of unrelenting doom and immersive sonic landscapes.

In the summer of 2024, Goya returned to the road for a West Coast US tour after taking a few years to write their fourth album, "In the Dawn of November", released in the spring of 2025 via New Mexico-based label Blues Funeral Recordings (Acid King, Lowrider, Dozer). Goya entered Soundhouse Studios in Seattle in the fall of 2024 with legendary producer Jack Endino (High On Fire, Year of the Cobra, Soundgarden) to lay down a monolithic work of graveyard grooves and bleak reflections to herald their towering return with their most accomplished and unwaveringly bone-crushing record to date.

Founded in 2011, IN THE COMPANY OF SERPENTS traffics in sonic catharsis. Fiercely DIY in their ethics, that band has self-released four LPs, one EP, and one Single since their inception. Their music inhabits the strange fringes between sludge metal and sprawling spaghetti western scores, constantly conjuring visceral power and raw intensity, contrasted with eerie, spare instrumental passages. Their 2020 release, LUX, garnered widespread praise, and was the only independent release to be featured on Decibel Magazine’s annual Top 40 records of the year. Their fifth LP, A Crack in Everything, was released in June, 2025, and is their most powerful work to date.

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