Venom Prison – ‘Erebos’ [Album Review]

Aside from the two new tracks on Primeval, a collection that saw Welsh metal quintet Venom Prison reworking a pick of their older material, Erebos is the first new material we’ve heard from the band since 2019’s stunning Samsara album. In that time, the group have talked about growing and expanding their death metal onslaught and, from initial singles “Judges of the Underworld,” “Pain Of Oizys” and “Nemesis,” the band have kept to that promise. Erebos (a primordial deity and the personification of darkness), is a brutal slice of Welsh death metal but, while the likes of the crushing “Judges of the Underworld” do pummel you into a mush, there is so much more depth and variety to the material. The haunting “Pain Of Oizys” is a perfect example of this where we hear vocalist Larissa Stupar rev...

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