Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on Talking The Talk With Don, Venom Inc.’s Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan discussed the band’s upcoming plans. Among them are a new mini-album and a couple of live releases.

Dolan said the following:

“Well, I’m trying to put out two live albums out [in the meantime]. At the minute we’re mixing the one [of them], which we did recordings from South America, from the tour we did with POSSESSED. So I’ve got recordings of every live show… And so we wanted to say a thank you ’cause we had such a spectacular time on that run. So we’re put a live album together specifically for them. Obviously we wanna do a new record, but in the meantime, it was suggested that we did a single. I thought, ‘Well, let’s do more than a single. Let’s do it like an EP or something.’ So we decided we’ll do four tracks, maybe five, [with] a bonus track on there, a hidden bonus track. And that will be like a mini album. And that will have two new songs, two re-recordings and a surprise song. And in the meantime, when we were in São Paulo [Brazil], we were invited to [the Brazilian radio station] Kiss FM, where they do a live-in-the-studio session. So they do an interview, you play as many songs as you wanna play, and then they do an interview and they intercut that and it goes up on YouTube and it’s played on Kiss FM throughout Brazil. So we did five songs for the show. My voice was fucked, my voice had been really fucked, ’cause I’d been a bit too excited and talking too much… But anyway, we did the session and I thought, ‘Oh, yeah. It was okay. Let’s have a listen back.’ So they put it up, and I was, like, ‘Holy fuck. Is that what we sound like?’ It sounded amazing. So I’ve done a deal where it’ll go up on to YouTube, but we’re getting the audio posted. And there’s five songs. We’re gonna put that on as a special release. So there’ll be the live album, then there’ll be the mini album, then there’ll be this Kiss FM live session, and then the new album.

So, yeah, I’m just trying to keep it as exciting as possible and to put music out. The whole point is I want to the two live things — the session and the live album — to capture what we are, the essence of what we are live. And, of course, there’s an opportunity with the two new songs on the mini album and then the album full to be us, ’cause we’ve been together for now two years, played a gazillion shows and we’re ready to record the three of us as a band. So it’s very exciting. It’s very exciting. I mean, to have this amount of interest in the band from the industry, but also from inside, from the guys inside, is wonderful. It’s wonderful.”

[via Blabbermouth]