Metal Hammer UK

VENOM PRISON

2022 feels like a pivotal year for Venom Prison. Having spent the last five years establishing themselves as one of the most vital young names in the Golden God Best New Band Award and support everyone on tour from Dying Fetus to Trivium. Their blend of guttural extreme metal, brutalising hardcore and socially and politically conscious lyricism has struck a real chord in our country’s metal underground, and with February’s representing their first new album proper since 2019’s blistering , there’s rarely been a better opportunity for a British extreme metal band to stake their claim on the world stage.

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