Welsh death metal heavyweights Venom Prison have teased a video premiere scheduled for midnight 9 October. The new video is coming out just in time for tomorrow’s release of the band’s highly anticipated third studio album/compilation Primevil via the renowned extreme metal label Prosthetic Records. The record will feature two new tracks alongside re-recorded tracks from their debut EPs Defy The Tyrant and Primal Chaos from 2015.
The video premiere will reveal one of the brand new songs ‘Slayer of Holofernes‘, produced by Tom Dring of Vagrand Records. The video was directed, written and edited entirely by Thomas Coe-Brooker and lyrically revolves around the historic and mythological figure of Judith. Follow the YouTube link in the post below to watch the official live premiere later today.
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— Venom Prison (@Venomprison) October 8, 2020
Formed in 2014, Venom Prison immediately rose to fame and are currently hailed as one of the most exciting death metal outfits not only in the UK but in the genre as a whole. Led by the chilling growls and uncompromising persona of the Russian-born Larissa Stupar, the band have already released two cricitally acclaimed studio albums – debut Animus from 2016 and the follow-up Samsara in 2019.
The Welsh iconclasts have already toured with leading genre tastemakers like Decapitated, Fit For An Autopsy, Toxic Holocaust and Dying Fetus. Immediately claiming a spot at the helm of the contemporary death metal and grindcore scenes the band won Metal Hammer’s prestigious Golden Gods award for Best New Band in 2017. With a third release in less than six years since their inception, Venom Prison are aiming even higher with tomorrow’s Primevil compilation of fresh post-lockdown material and revisited older tracks.
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The initial reviews of Primevil have been predominantly positive with Sam Law of Kerrang! praising Venom Prison’s “unwavering commitment to the hard-edged extreme metal aesthetic, and their desire to push its dynamic boundaries as far as they’ll go“. Discussing the re-recording of their earlier EPs, Edwin McFee of Louder Sound (Metal Hammer) states how the “material has been sharpened up considerably after spending the guts of half a decade shedding blood, sweat and tears on the road and these bulldozing 2020 versions could level Mount Olympus itself“.
Joining in with the celebration, Noizze credits Larissa Stupar’s impressive vocals hailing them as “truly monstrous, her rabid growls and snarls lending an animalistic rage to the already pummelling compositions“. Almost two months ago Venom Prison released the official video for ‘Daemon Vulgaris‘ filmed by Stupar herself. The description on YouTube shared even more details on the upcoming release, focusing on the “force that underpinned the band’s momentum” and their ambitious and “unprecedented growth during turbulent times“.
