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VENOM PRISON

Primeval

PROSTHETIC

Death metal iconoclasts take a step back to surge forward

who do 21st-century death metal better than pretty much every new band out there by this very magazine, Venom Prison have captured the hearts and minds of many fans of extreme music since first bursting onto the scene in 2015. Led by the increasingly iconic Larissa Stupar, last year’s saw the Anglo-Russian quintet deftly side-stepping those difficult second-album jitters by delivering an opus that not only lived up to the considerable hype but gave a gleeful sonic two-fingered salute to the

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