The Raven Age release 'Serpents Tongue', new single and video

The Raven Age have released their brand new single ‘Serpents Tongue’, the latest song to be taken from the forthcoming album Blood Omen out July 7^th via Music For Nations/Sony Music. The album is available to pre-order now here.

Heavy and raging, ‘Serpents Tongue’ is a fiery melodic metal anthem. The epic, self-produced video finds the band performing the song in a ghoulish manor house to soundtrack a demonic dinner party hosted by the Raven King.

“‘Serpents Tongue’ from the off felt like a very special track for us,” says singer Matt James. “It’s that perfect balance between melodic and heaviness. There are so many different styles going on, but they all work and complement each other as a whole.”

Guitarist George Harris continues, “‘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.

“The music video 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.”

‘Serpents Tongue’ follows the highly-praised release of ‘Parasite’, the gargantuan lead single from Blood Omen. And the band’s forthcoming third album pushes everything further than ever before. The choruses are made for arenas, the riffs are taut, direct, and go straight for the jugular. It all makes for a grand musical stage on which the record’s concept plays out.

Following the theme of its two predecessors, 2019’s Conspiracy and the band’s debut Darkness Will Rise in 2017, the raven motif looms large, this time centring on the overthrowing of old masters in Blood Omen, with the band’s Raven King character coming to prominence.

To capture all this on record, the band enlisted the help of long-term producer Matt Hyde (Slipknot, Machine Head, Bullet For My Valentine) to lay down the album’s framework, before setting to recording the rest of the album themselves. The final mastering was put into the treasured hands of Mika Jussila at Finnvox (Nightwish, Children of Bodom, HIM).

BLOOD OMEN TRACK LISITING

1. Changing Of The Guard
2. Parasite
3. Serpents Tongue
4. Essence Of Time
5. Nostradamus
6. Forgive & Forget
7. The Journey
8. War In Heaven
9. Tears Of Stone

Blood Omen is a strong, focussed, and ambitious work from one of the most rapidly rising metal bands in Britain, and live in concert they solidify this status. They have performed over 400 shows internationally across 38 countries including major festival performances such as the main stage at Download Festival, Rock in Rio, Wacken, Hellfest and many more, as well as touring with the likes of Killswitch Engage, Volbeat, Shinedown and Alter Bridge.

With the release of ‘Serpents Tongue’ the band have announced a headline UK and European tour running throughout autumn 2023. Tickets will be available on pre-sale with pre-orders of Blood Omen from 10am Wednesday 12^th April. General sale will begin on Friday April 14^th at 10am. Full tour dates are listed below with tickets and album pre-orders available via https://www.theravenage.com/

Ahead of the autumn tour, The Raven Age will be touring arenas across Europe and the UK with Iron Maiden. They have also been announced to perform at a number of major European festivals this summer including Germany’s Rock am Ring, Belgium’s Graspop Metal Meeting, Return Of The Gods Festival in Italy, Sweden Rock as well as Metal Days in Slovenia.

The band will also play two headline warm up shows ahead of the summer tour. These will take place at The Booking Hall in Dover on May 23^rd and Chelsea in Vienna on May 26^th. Full tour dates are listed below. Now, watch this raven soar.

THE RAVEN AGE TOUR DATES 2023

May

23^rd – Dover, The Booking Hall

26^th – Vienna, Chelsea

28^th – Ljubljana, Arena Stozice *

30^th – Prague, O2 Arena *

31^st – Prague, O2 Arena *

June

2^nd – Nuremberg, Rock Im Park

3^rd – Nürburgring, Rock Am Ring

4^th – Tampere, Nokia Arena *

7^th – Bergen, Koengen *

9^th – Sölvesborg, Sweden Rock

11^th – Leipzig, Quarterback Immobilien Arena *

13^th – Krakow, Tauron Arena *

14^th – Krakow, Tauron Arena *

15^th – Dessel, Graspop

19^th – Zurich, Hallenstadion *

21^st – Hannover, Zag Arena *

23^rd – Czech Republic, Basinfirefest

24^th – Switzerland, Heavy Load Festival

July

8^th – London, O2 Arena *

11^th – Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome *

13^th – Antwerp, Sportpaleis *

15^th – Milan, Return Of The Gods Festival

18^th – Barcelona, Palau Sant Jordi *

20^th – Murcia, Estadio Enrique Roca *

22^nd – Bilbao, Bizkaia Arena Bec! *

25^th – Dortmund, Westfalenhalle *

29^th – Frankfurt, Festhalle *

31^st – Munich, Olympiahalle

August

1^st – Lake Velenje, Metal Days Festival

2-5^th – Wacken Open Air Festival

*supporting Iron Maiden

HEADLINE TOUR

October

12^th – Krakow, Kamienna 12

15^th – Helsinki, On The Rocks Club

17^th – Stockholm, Nalen Klubb

18^th – Copenhagen, Pumpehuset

20^th – Berlin, Badehaus

22^nd – Prague, Futurum

24^th – Hannover, Musikzentrum

25^th – Uden, Del Pul

27^th – Paris, La Maroquinerie

29^th – Milan, The Legend Club

30^th – Zurich, The Plaza

31^st – Munich, Strom

November

2^nd – Dortmund, FZW

3^rd – Antwerp, Kavka

5^th – London, Lafyette

7^th – Manchester, Academy 3

8^th – Glasgow, Attic

10^th – Dublin, Academy 2

11^th – Belfast, Limelight 2

13^th – Birmingham, Asylum

15^th – Bristol, Exchange

Blood Omen is available to pre-order here and arrives on several formats. The nine-track album comes as an LP pressed on transparent red vinyl, and as a deluxe version LP pressed on black and red splatter vinyl, housed in gatefold packaging, complete with additional and exclusive artwork.

A standard CD option is also presented with jewelcase packaging, and a booklet insert, whilst the deluxe CD option comes as a hardcover packaging that presents additional and exclusive artwork. Exclusive album merchandise is also available to purchase alongside album formats, available only through the band’s official store.