Black metal originators VENOM INC. will release their upcoming full-length album, “Avé“, out August 11, 2017 via Nuclear Blast. You can watch the fourth instalment of the band’s one-on-one video interview series describing behind-the-scenes details on “Avé“. This video discusses the album’s recording process. You can check out the official trailer/interview below.
Regardless of your take on black metal forefathers VENOM, they are the undisputed originators of extreme metal as we know it. Almost 40 years after their inception, the revitalized 1989-1992 line-up of guitarist Jeff “Mantas” Dunn, vocalist/bassist Tony “Demolition Man” Dolanand drummer Anthony “Abaddon” Bray have returned with a monster of an album.
Going in to writing “Avé“, VENOM INC. realized their live performance was the key to creating an album that would be a metal classic. It was clear that any songs the trio came up with had to have the intensity, the honesty and the aggression that was happening for VENOM INC. in a live situation. Simply put, they needed to translate what they do on stage onto a record. Not once did they look back on the VENOM catalogue and think, “We have to write another ‘Black Metal’ or another ‘Schizo’…” The focus is on VENOM INC. and everything the rejuvenated three-piece do in the here and now.
“Avé” Track Listing:
1. Ave Satanas
2. Forged In Hell
3. Metal We Bleed
4. Dein Fleisch
5. Blood Stained
6. Time To Die
7. The Evil Dead
8. Preacher Man
9. War
10. I Kneel To No God
11. Black N Roll
