British Metal Legends VENOM Confirmed For SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL

January 12, 2006

British black metal pioneers VENOM have been confirmed for this year's installment of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place June 8-10 in Sölvesborg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

CACTUS
CATHEDRAL
CELTIC FROST
DEEP PURPLE
DORO
EASY ACTION
EVERGREY
FIREWIND
FROM BEHIND
GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS
JADED HEART
JEFF HEALEY BAND
JOURNEY
KROKUS
LORD BELIAL
METAL CHURCH
MOLLY HATCHET
NEVERMORE
RAISE HELL
STRYPER
THE STORYTELLER
THE SWEET
VENOM
W.A.S.P.

As previously reported, VENOM will play their first U.K. gig of the new millennium on Sunday, March 26 at the Manchester Academy.

VENOM have finished mixing their new album, "Metal Black", at the Townhouse Studios in London. The album contains 14 new songs, including "Antechrist", the demo for which can be heard at this location. A March release via Castle Records/Sanctuary Group is expected.

According to an official press release, "Metal Black" "sees original founder band member Cronos creating a new masterpiece of metal together with [drummer] Antton and [guitarist] Mykvs. With 14 brand new roaring and vital tracks, VENOM are again taking the goat by the horns and reinventing their own original style . . . 'Metal Black' [is] an album that harkens back to the writing style of the '80s VENOM with a powerful production to incinerate any sound system, truly demonic in every sense and with the delivery of a charging beast."

Commented Mykvs: "The album has a very raw feel. The intensity of the songs is awesome. We recorded the album as a live band, three demons bleeding for the heaviest metal we could create, and our new album will show that VENOM keeps getting stronger and heavier. Lay down your souls, muthafuckers, we have returned."

VENOM are planning additional European dates and are also looking at hitting America by early summer.

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