Venom Prison return with their third full-length studio album Erebos.
Let’s be honest here. There are certain bands that as soon as they announce a new album you can feel in your bones it’s going to be good. For me Venom Prison fit that criteria and I’m not just saying that because I lived in Cardiff for a few years either.
Instantly, I feel that the band have validated that feeling. “Born From Chaos” is short but packed full of entrancing elements, from the harsh whisper of the album title to the building drumbeat to a stunning guitar solo. “Judges of the Underworld” has some familiar elements that I know from the band, but then there are some wonderful dual harmonies from vocalist Larissa Stupar which took me by total surprise and add another dynamic.
Laden with riffs, “Nemesis” is unapologetically destructive as too is follow up track “Confort of Complicity”… but just at the end it becomes almost a different entity.
I can’t eloquently put into words just how much “Pain of Oizys” is almost as if you’re feeling an evolution taking place around you. This is something that I thought I wouldn’t hear from a band who are known for their ferocity, but it honestly left with a lump in my throat and is easily my highlight track of the album. I’ve lost count of how many times I have watched the accompanying video.
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I mention the ferocity, and that is back with a vengeance in “Golden Apples of the Hesperides”. Every track seems to have something different with every listen. It’s like splashes of exploration and so far there haven’t been any I have been averse to. In fact, the total opposite. Take, for instance, “Castigated In Steel and Concrete” – it’s full of them.
The further I delve into this album the more I become immersed in it. “Gorgon Sisters” and “Veil of Night” continue the trend of me listening to this and asking myself “what’s next?” That answer comes in the final track, “Technologies of Death”, which has an almost prog-rock feel to it midway through, and I’m left feeling exactly how I was at the start of the album… but with a few more goosebumps.
With every release, Venom Prison creep further and further into people’s consciousness, but with Erebos, there’s no creeping involved. They have fully become an unstoppable force and rightly so.
Once again I’m left completely in awe.
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Erebos is released on February 4th
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