Venator - Psychodrome (2025)
Napísané: 24 Apr 2025, 14:32
Venator - Psychodrome (2025)
Year : 2025
Style : Heavy Metal
Country : Austria
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 103 mb
Bio:
Heavy metal band from Linz, Upper Austria formed in 2016.Austria’s Venator are the latest riveting entry into the new wave of old-school heavy (NWOSHM) that’s currently taking the world by storm. Formed in Linz in 2016, newcomers Johannes Huemer (vocals), Stefan Glasner (bass), Jakob Steidl (drums), Anton Holzner (guitars), and Leon Ehrengruber (guitars) quickly set up a mining operation on the heap that is ’80s heavy metal. Digging into classic cuts from Oz, Riot, Heavy Load, Grim Reaper, et al., Venator found diamonds (and rust). The group’s debut EP Paradiser (Dying Victims) slipped into an early ’80s mode, where hard labor, partying, and found titty mags informed their no-frills, riff-forward attack.Now, Venator are readying their first full-length, Echoes from the Gutter, via Germany-based indie Dying Victims. Musically, the Austrians haven’t strayed at all from their beer can, Marlboro Red approach. In fact, Venator’s songwriting prowess has only improved, with tracks like “Howl at the Rain,” “Nightrider,” “Seventh Seal,” and “Streets of Gold” sounding like they’ve been carved out of 1985. That’s right. This is no-holds-barred heavy metal inspired by the glory years (New Coke era) thrust into the Virtua-Information Age of Web3, or whatever the fuck that means in context to the almighty riff. Get ready for anthems in non-anthem times!
Album:
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Austria’s VENATOR, Psychodrome, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.Forming in 2016, it took VENATOR a while to get going, but when they finally did – it was ON! In 2020, the Austrians released their debut EP, Paradiser, which DYING VICTIMS eventually put on a split LP with the late ANGEL BLADE. Those three songs were an incredibly auspicious first start, showing VENATOR as a band seemingly thawed out from 1983, so authentic and skyward was their songwriting. As the buzz began to build, it came to boil with the band’s debut album, Echoes From the Gutter. Released by DYING VICTIMS in early 2022, VENATOR’s debut album was everything a first full-length should be: a summation of demo legwork, but an equally concerted strive for new & greater heights. Electricity was positively bristling from every second of the record; stunningly addicting, one anthem after another was doled out in seemingly effortless fashion, showing VENATOR as young masters of melody and moodiness.Following the release of Echoes From the Gutter, VENATOR made good on their street-level charm by hitting any new stage they could, heavily gigging first with labelmates MEGATON SWORD in 2023 and then with labelmates TOXIKULL last year. That increased charisma spills over into their second album, Psychodrome. Indeed, with a title and cover like that, Psychodrome builds an era-specific atmosphere that’s “on brand” for a vintage-savvy band like VENATOR – but such sometimes-superficial moves would all be for naught if they didn’t have the SONGS to back them up! And back ‘em up, VENATOR do here, showing ever more sides to their sonic arsenal whilst sounding characteristically themselves. Much of LP#2 punches forward to a cruising mid-tempo – fist-shaking, for sure, but never overly speedy – while some other songs dip into tempos both faster and slower. But no matter the speed, VENATOR quickly and compellingly establish mood and almighty MELODY: street level as before, but with that heart-on-sleeve passion that puts this into a realm all its own – one that’s authentically mid ‘80s heavy metal heroism in one sense, but strangely refreshing in another. Frontman Hans Huemer once again rallies the warriors with a performance that’s rough and emotive in equal measure, while the rest of his bandmates sharpen their swords with slightly more clarity and spit-shine those godly HOOKS to deadly levels. A lateral development from their almighty debut, then, but another modern classic in the making!Just like that debut LP, anyone pining for the 1983/’84 peak of the likes of Tokyo Blade, Grim Reaper, OZ, Witch Cross, Heavy Load, and even Judas Priest, here again do you have a band adding to that hallowed lineage rather than plagiarizing it – or perhaps moving the calendar year to 1985, fucking CLASSIC either way. VENATOR command you to enter their Psychodrome!
Line-Up:
Hans Huemer - Vocals (2017-present)
Anton Holzner - Guitars (2016-present)
Leon Ehrengruber - Guitars (2016-present)
Stefan Glasner - Bass (2019-present)
Jakob Steidl - Drums (2016-present) - See also: Ludgar
Tracks:
01. Into the Drome (1:06)
02. Steal the Night (4:10)
03. Children of the Beast (4:59)
04. Ravening Angel (5:25)
05. The Final Call (6:47)
06. Radar (4:25)
07. Race to Glory (3:31)
08. Dynamite (4:16)
09. Fear the Light (4:14)
10. Astral Seduction (4:41)
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/
Year : 2025
Style : Heavy Metal
Country : Austria
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 103 mb
Bio:
Heavy metal band from Linz, Upper Austria formed in 2016.Austria’s Venator are the latest riveting entry into the new wave of old-school heavy (NWOSHM) that’s currently taking the world by storm. Formed in Linz in 2016, newcomers Johannes Huemer (vocals), Stefan Glasner (bass), Jakob Steidl (drums), Anton Holzner (guitars), and Leon Ehrengruber (guitars) quickly set up a mining operation on the heap that is ’80s heavy metal. Digging into classic cuts from Oz, Riot, Heavy Load, Grim Reaper, et al., Venator found diamonds (and rust). The group’s debut EP Paradiser (Dying Victims) slipped into an early ’80s mode, where hard labor, partying, and found titty mags informed their no-frills, riff-forward attack.Now, Venator are readying their first full-length, Echoes from the Gutter, via Germany-based indie Dying Victims. Musically, the Austrians haven’t strayed at all from their beer can, Marlboro Red approach. In fact, Venator’s songwriting prowess has only improved, with tracks like “Howl at the Rain,” “Nightrider,” “Seventh Seal,” and “Streets of Gold” sounding like they’ve been carved out of 1985. That’s right. This is no-holds-barred heavy metal inspired by the glory years (New Coke era) thrust into the Virtua-Information Age of Web3, or whatever the fuck that means in context to the almighty riff. Get ready for anthems in non-anthem times!
Album:
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Austria’s VENATOR, Psychodrome, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.Forming in 2016, it took VENATOR a while to get going, but when they finally did – it was ON! In 2020, the Austrians released their debut EP, Paradiser, which DYING VICTIMS eventually put on a split LP with the late ANGEL BLADE. Those three songs were an incredibly auspicious first start, showing VENATOR as a band seemingly thawed out from 1983, so authentic and skyward was their songwriting. As the buzz began to build, it came to boil with the band’s debut album, Echoes From the Gutter. Released by DYING VICTIMS in early 2022, VENATOR’s debut album was everything a first full-length should be: a summation of demo legwork, but an equally concerted strive for new & greater heights. Electricity was positively bristling from every second of the record; stunningly addicting, one anthem after another was doled out in seemingly effortless fashion, showing VENATOR as young masters of melody and moodiness.Following the release of Echoes From the Gutter, VENATOR made good on their street-level charm by hitting any new stage they could, heavily gigging first with labelmates MEGATON SWORD in 2023 and then with labelmates TOXIKULL last year. That increased charisma spills over into their second album, Psychodrome. Indeed, with a title and cover like that, Psychodrome builds an era-specific atmosphere that’s “on brand” for a vintage-savvy band like VENATOR – but such sometimes-superficial moves would all be for naught if they didn’t have the SONGS to back them up! And back ‘em up, VENATOR do here, showing ever more sides to their sonic arsenal whilst sounding characteristically themselves. Much of LP#2 punches forward to a cruising mid-tempo – fist-shaking, for sure, but never overly speedy – while some other songs dip into tempos both faster and slower. But no matter the speed, VENATOR quickly and compellingly establish mood and almighty MELODY: street level as before, but with that heart-on-sleeve passion that puts this into a realm all its own – one that’s authentically mid ‘80s heavy metal heroism in one sense, but strangely refreshing in another. Frontman Hans Huemer once again rallies the warriors with a performance that’s rough and emotive in equal measure, while the rest of his bandmates sharpen their swords with slightly more clarity and spit-shine those godly HOOKS to deadly levels. A lateral development from their almighty debut, then, but another modern classic in the making!Just like that debut LP, anyone pining for the 1983/’84 peak of the likes of Tokyo Blade, Grim Reaper, OZ, Witch Cross, Heavy Load, and even Judas Priest, here again do you have a band adding to that hallowed lineage rather than plagiarizing it – or perhaps moving the calendar year to 1985, fucking CLASSIC either way. VENATOR command you to enter their Psychodrome!
Line-Up:
Hans Huemer - Vocals (2017-present)
Anton Holzner - Guitars (2016-present)
Leon Ehrengruber - Guitars (2016-present)
Stefan Glasner - Bass (2019-present)
Jakob Steidl - Drums (2016-present) - See also: Ludgar
Tracks:
01. Into the Drome (1:06)
02. Steal the Night (4:10)
03. Children of the Beast (4:59)
04. Ravening Angel (5:25)
05. The Final Call (6:47)
06. Radar (4:25)
07. Race to Glory (3:31)
08. Dynamite (4:16)
09. Fear the Light (4:14)
10. Astral Seduction (4:41)
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/