{"id":95593,"date":"2022-09-23T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=95593"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T14:20:13","slug":"album-review-venom-inc-theres-only-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-venom-inc-theres-only-black\/","title":{"rendered":"VENOM INC. – There\u2019s Only Black (2022) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

VENOM INC.
There\u2019s Only Black<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNuclear Blast (2022)<\/span>
Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s vitally important that when reviewing albums that one doesn\u2019t compare the music to the original band which the members originally spawned from, in this case Venom. Venom Inc. is very much a separate entity and one which has existed for seven years. Of course, many will know the band because it features former Venom members Jeff \u201cMantas\u201d Dunn (guitar, M:Pire Of Evil) and Tony \u201cDemolition Man\u201d Dolan (vocals and guitar, Atomkraft \/ M:Pire Of Evil), who are joined by latest recruit Jeramie \u201cWar Machine\u201d Kling (Inhuman Condition \/ Ribspreader \/ The Absence \/ Ex Deo).<\/p>\n

Just like the band\u2019s debut 2017 opus Av\u00e9<\/em><\/a>, There\u2019s Only Black<\/em> continues the muscular metal battery which is firmly suited to a label like Nuclear Blast. What you get here are 12 rather rampant tracks delivered in a thrash vein, apparent from the off with the destructive and belligerent hammering of \u2018How Many Can Die\u2019. Yeah, some of the lyrics are rather cheesy but one cannot argue with the riffage that Mantas slays the ears with, particularly when they slow to a menacing metallic chug.<\/p>\n

For me that opening track is a full-on, crisp thrash workout and this venomous assault continues, dredging the lake of Teutonic force circa contemporary Destruction<\/a> and Sodom where each song rumbles with extreme force but all too quickly blend in to one barrage. Thankfully, the leads of Mantas keep us on our toes as they fizz and squirm beneath the rubble compromising of Dolan\u2019s gruff approach and his bass is as equally gnarly.<\/p>\n

For the hardcore fans there\u2019s still much to savour as the trio delivers some rather tasty, and at times, gloom-laden treats, namely \u2018Don\u2019t Feed Me Your Lies\u2019 and \u2018Burn Liar Burn\u2019, while \u2018Come To Me\u2019, \u2018Nine\u2019 and \u2018The Dance\u2019 are speeding juggernauts; \u2018The Dance\u2019 has a dark, latter day Slayer<\/a> vibe, more so as it closes with those creeping melodious streaks.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no denying the powerful delivery throughout and I often found myself tapping along to the industrialised Gothic sneers of \u2018Inferno\u2019 and the clanking snarls of the title track. However, at times there is a strange dynamic whereby the trio suggests that at any minute the armour could drip with cheese, and maybe that\u2019s through Dolan\u2019s generic snarls and some of the lyrics.<\/p>\n

If this album had emerged in the mid-90s it may have been better suited but easily forgotten and drowned due to the plethora of sound-alikes, but in today\u2019s climate it stands as a brutish, jagged composition riddled with some colossal marches and chest-pounding hymns, and that\u2019ll suffice for many of its debris-coated followers.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VENOM INC.There\u2019s Only Black Nuclear Blast (2022)Rating: 7\/10 It\u2019s vitally important that when reviewing albums that one doesn\u2019t compare the music to the original band which the members originally spawned from, in this case Venom. Venom Inc. is very much a separate entity and one which has existed for seven years. Of course, many will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-venom-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95595,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95593\/revisions\/95595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}