MOURNING NOISE Serve Up ‘Serpent Lip Service’ for Their Latest Single

Hot on the heels of “Live And Die For You,” the first single from their upcoming new album, Serpent Lip Service, New Jersey’s MOURNING NOISE today uncage the album’s title track, another thrilling slice of what drummer and founder member Steve Zing describes as “dark…, melodic music shaped by experience, attitude, and a relentless forward vision.”

It’s close to 45 years since Mourning Noise first came screaming out of suburban Lodi, New Jersey, but while they left precious little behind them at the time, few people forgot them and the self-titled journey through their early 80s back catalog that materialized back in 2021 was surely one of the most incandescent hardcore releases of the recent past.

Neither was it left to stand alone. 2024’s Screams/Dreams was a fearless flash of high driven music, and now they’re back with more, following up acclaimed shows with Fear, Prong, The Misfits and Cro-Mags, and Zing’s role behind the drums with Samhain/Danzig, with Serpent Lip Service, a 12 track Behemoth that will begin coiling itself around your ears on April 17.

“Serpent Lip Service” itself is a magnificent trailer for the main attraction, as Steve explains.

“Serpent Lip Service, a story that shows how quick fire can be blown out and turnt to ice. A song that shows the influence others have on one another. A song that most can take to heart at some point in their lives.

“The lyrics reek the tension of late-night thoughts, in the push and pull of desire and distrust
The music comes in waves with the verses crashing darkness over your head and the choruses drifting you into the tide of another place in time.”

The accompanying video, too, grabs the attention. Filmed in lower Manhattan during a photo shoot for the upcoming album, and “shot through a psychotic lens, it’s a story that shows how quickly fire can be blown out and turned to ice.”

As for the album itself, Serpent Lip Service “signals a powerful new chapter for Mourning Noise, reintroducing the band with a fearless departure from its earliest incarnation.

Zing continues, “Driven by themes of loss, reflection, and resilience, the album channels the individual identities and musical diversity of its members into a sound that feels both raw and evolved.

“Rooted firmly in the band’s original punk ethos, the record pushes beyond tradition, blending dark intensity with a broad spectrum of influences to create a gripping, unpredictable journey from start to finish.”

It’s easy, sometimes, looking around at the state of the modern world, to wonder what the days of old would have to say about it. Serpent Lip Service is the answer to that question – and it tells you exactly what you’d want to hear.

Think of “Serpent Lip Service” as an early taste of a truly remarkable reckoning.