The Serpent Servant
The Serpent Servant is the second studio album by American Christian deathcore band Impending Doom. They worked with the metalcore band As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis and his production partner Daniel Castleman to record the album. The album was released in the US on March 31, 2009, from Facedown Records and on March 30, 2009, through Siege of Amida Records.
The album reached No. 144 on the Billboard 200 and No. 3 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. It sold 4,300 copies in its first week of release. It is the last album by the band to feature lead guitarist Manny Contreras before he rejoined the band in 2012, the first to feature rhythm guitarist Cory Johnson, and the only album to feature drummer Chad Blackwell.
In 2021, Joe Smith-Engelhardt of Alternative Press included the album in his list of "30 deathcore albums from the 2000s that define the genre".
Personnel
;Impending Doom- Brook Reeves – vocals
- Manny Contreras – lead guitar
- Cory Johnson – rhythm guitar
- David Sittig – bass
- Chad Blackwell – drums
- Tim Lambesis – production
- Daniel Castleman – production, engineering
- Kelly "Carnage" Cairns – engineering
- Zeuss – engineering, mixing, mastering
- Shawn Carrano – management
- Colin Marks – artwork