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Double album on black vinyls with gatefold cover

“We tried to shape ‘Ave’ so that it comes at you dark, then it gets bright and heavy and just keeps growing into some kind of monster.” – Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan The name Venom is both loved and loathed in the metal world, but regardless of your take on the band they are known first and foremost as the pioneers 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” Dolan and drummer Anthony “Abaddon” Bray have returned with a monster of an album, ‘Ave’. It’s a reunion that was unexpected at the outset – even by the band members themselves – but the end result after getting their collective legs back is an album that true Venom fans will gladly add to the top of their playlists. Going in to writing ‘Ave’, 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.

Track list:
1. Ave Satanas
2. Forged In Hell
3. Metal We Bleed
4. Dein Fleisch
5. Bloodstained
6. Time To Die
7. The Evil Dead
8. Preacher Man
9. War
10. I Kneel To No God
11. Black N Roll