As 2015 swept in it brought with it a solid revival of traditional Metal bands. A chance encounter and request brought and offer to Tony Dolan (Vocalist and Bassist) to reform the line up of VENOM that had recorded the classic “Prime Evil” album and solid follow up albums that kept the band very much alive during the onslaught of Grunge and Brit pop that destroyed all but the most hardy in the early 1990’s Metal had suffered at the hands of the new trend but VENOM (with this lineup) refused to alter or die and so continued the legacy that had begun when Jeff Dunn (aka Mantas – Guitar) formed the original band in 1979 and brought the world extreme Metal in the form of the “Welcome To Hell” and “Black Metal” albums.
In 2022, VENOM INC. release their latest album “There’s Only Black”, the follow-up to their acclaimed debut, “Avé” so we sat down with Tony ‘Demolition Man’ Dolan to talk all about it as well as getting creative, dealing with critics and much more.
On working on the new album “There’s Only Black”:
Tony: Following Wacken in 2019, our live season closed giving us time where I could have my hip replacement surgery and the band could use the recovery time to work on a new album…Little did anyone know we’d be hit by a pandemic that would pause the whole world. We began our work at a pace, then being locked down with no prospect of live shows, we decided there was no need to rush it but instead utilise the time to create without the pressure of live work looming.
Check out the full interview
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HF13yIjmzk8
Listen to Podcast version on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3KiSax1
Get There’s Only Black here: https://bfan.link/there-s-only-black.ema
