Artist: Venom Inc
Release Title: Ave 
Release Year: 2017
Record Label: Nuclear Blast
Cat #: NB38010
Duration: Album
Case Type: Digipak
Format: CD

In a time where the easily-bored or ungrateful metal fan wouldn’t be content with a band who stayed true to form, never surrendered or conformed to this “progressive” state of mind – you have a band like Venom Inc who gives a giant middle finger to all those who oppose. Adding the “Inc” to their name, just as the ink on the new deal with Nuclear Blast dried, the line-up that first took hold back in 1989 with the well-received ‘Prime Evil’, Anthony “Abaddon” Bray, Jeff “Mantas” Dunn and the return of Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan, is set to release the first Venom Inc album, ‘Ave’.

For nearly 40 years, Abaddon and Mantas (along with the honorably mentioned, Conrad “Cronos” Thomas Lant) have helped wave the flag for the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. And to some Black Metal “cvtilsts” or elitists, they were a bit of a thorn on their side since around the time of the 1982 release ‘Black Metal’. This will mark their 15th full length release between the two since the inception of Venom back in 1980. Fast forward to 2017, as Venom Inc they bulldoze their way back into conversations of meaningful music and metal once again.

Recommended if you like: Witchery, Onslaught, Destruction, Death Angel, Venom, Exumer, Heathen, Sodom, Possessed, Exhorder

Track Listing
01. Ave Satanas
02. Forged In Hell
03. Metal We Bleed
04. Dein Fleisch
05. Blood Stained
06. Time To Die
07. The Evil Dead
08. Preacher Man
09. War
10. I Kneel To No God
11. Black N Roll