Best International LP: URNE – Serpent & Spirit

My awards for 2021 have begun. Not that anyone asked or cares but here you go!
Many great albums were released in 2021. Trivium, Mastodon, Cannibal Corpse, Hypocrisy, Gojira will all be in peoples lists and for good reason. So why did I choose URNE? Well, Joe from Gojira and Matt from Trivium have them in their list so there’s obviously a reason which I think I may know?
Like those lads I’m on this toilet earth a while now and heard many great albums over the years and lucky enough to witness the vast majority of them live. I remember discovering Gojira as one example in the very early days and saw them live at the smallest tent at Wacken back in the day.
Fast forward to 2021 a band called URNE were playing the Sophie stage at Bloodstock. I was intrigued by the name alone and decided to check them out. It was similar to when I discovered all those great bands over the past twenty five years. One of the bands of the weekend and I checked out the album in full when I got home. The line up was changing almost daily in the run up so it was a weekend of discovery…
I get why so many greats have it in their list. It’s different! URNE sound like URNE. When you get on you’ve heard it all before and while you may be impressed, it doesn’t grab you like it used to…
This grabbed me by the balls and refused to let go! It’s spun at least once a week here and I’m not getting bored with it.
I caught them again at Damnation and planning to go over for Manor Fest to see them again. Such an amazing album and band!
A band I’ll be following closely going forward as if this is their debut album. What does the future hold? Only good things I imagine!

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Bandcamp: https://urne1.bandcamp.com/album/serpent-spirit