Venom Prison: “It’s important to show that we live in a world that is quite dark, even when we don’t see it as such”

In a just world, April 2020 would have been a glorious month for Venom Prison. It was the month that they were meant to bring their caustic, thunderous death metal to the biggest stages they’d ever set foot on in support of Parkway Drive. They were supposed to sweep the biggest venues in Europe, culminating in a gargantuan night at Wembley Arena, where Larissa Stupar should have watched the biggest mosh-pits she had ever commanded open up before her eyes. At that point, Venom Prison were blazing brighter than ever. The previous year, they had released their second album Samsara to rapturous success. With savage riffs, knife-edged attacks on worldwide injustices and explorations of mental health dredged from the depths of a personal Hell, the quintet stepped forward...

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