Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on Laughing Monkey With Shawn Ratches, Venom Inc.’s Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan and Curran Murphy offered an update on their new mini-album. According to them, the effort has already been mixed.

Curran said the following:

“We finished mixes on the new VENOM INC., the new mini-LP, a couple of weeks ago. We finally got all that locked in. It’s getting mastered right now.”

Dolan also explained why the band recorded a mini-album instead of a full-length:

“I think we’ve still got a way to go by the time we do the full album. This is kind of an introduction, if you like. There’s a bunch of tracks on there, so it’s kind of a mini-album — six or seven tracks.

We’ve got BLACK LABEL SOCIETY tour and a European tour around that coming up, and I wanted to have some new stuff out, new stuff ready anyway. And I think we kind of lost our window because we didn’t wanna rush it, so it took a little bit longer than I’d hoped for. But we wanted to continue, so we could put some fresh stuff in the set. A couple of the songs are older classic songs that fans wanted to hear that we haven’t played live, in one case. And another one, which was a song from ‘The Waste Lands’ that we put into the set which people loved. And so it’s been re-edited, if you like, and redone our way. And so I wanted to include that. We’ve got a tribute song on there, and we’ve got some new stuff on there. So it seemed to bridge the gap of our identity. I wanted to [release] something to [establish] our identity. We’ve also got a finished product, which is the Kiss FM studio sessions we did in Brazil, in São Paulo, which is now ready to go as well. And then there’ll be the full live album and then the new album. So we just wanted to get material out and just go, ‘This is who the band is. This is our identity.’ It’s VENOM INC., not VENOM, and we wanted to make that distinction. [The Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant-fronted-fronted] VENOM’s just released their next record, ‘Into Oblivion’ I think it’s called, and that sounds great, so that’s them…. It’s them. It’s Conrad and the boys, and it sounds like them. And they’ve been together 17 years doing their albums, and they’re happy doing that. But I thought it’s time to make the distinction between who we are and who they are, ’cause people go, ‘Oh, that’s not VENOM.’ It’s, like, nobody said it was VENOM.”

[via Blabbermouth]