VENOM Release New Studio Album Metal Black

Venom, the heaviest band on the planet, a true forefather and inventor of black metal, has returned. Since debuting with the landmark album Welcome to Hell in 1981, this band has always served up raw, dark, brutal and powerful music. Now, in April 2006, just when everyone thought metal music couldn't get any darker or heavier, Venom will unleash their latest studio album on the world, Metal Black.

This is a band that has influenced music makers the world over with their visceral albums. Albums like Black Metal and songs like Warhead are some of the most familiar and celebrated musical accomplishments in metal. The Venom live show has always taken onstage antics and pyrotechnics to another level; much aped by contemporaries, and still drawn upon by new artists. Venom is, in essence, a legendary band who always delivers the ultimate in extreme music.

Metal Black sees original founding band member Cronos creating a new masterpiece of metal, together with longstanding members Antton and Mykvs. This is such an exciting album for the band and for all fans of Venom, with 14 brand new roaring and vital tracks. Venom is again taking the goat by the horns and reinventing their own original style, as controversial as ever. Venom brings their black metal music into the 21st century in the form of Metal Black, an album that harkens back to the band's writing style of the 1980s. With production quality powerful enough to incinerate any sound system and with the delivery of a charging beast, this is music at its heaviest, truly demonic in every sense. This is metal of the darkest kind. This is Metal Black.