Album review: Venom Inc – There’s Only Black

In 1982, by way of introduction to their second album, Black Metal, Geordie Satanic metal maniacs Venom recorded the sound of the door to their recording studio being defiled with a chainsaw. That the noise merged so perfectly with the din of guitarist Jeff ​‘Mantas’ Dunn’s opening riff to the title-track said much about the aggression and intensity of what Venom were doing. Riffs like a chainsaw. Stick that on your business card.  Forty years later, Venom may have split off into two bands (Venom Inc feature Mantas and, until 2018, drummer Tony ​‘Abaddon’ Bray), while the originally-monikered band have singer/bassist Conrad ​‘Cronos’ Lant), but a similar dedication to volume and violence remains for both. Here, on their second album, Venom Inc burn with a sati...

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