Venom Prison "Samsara"

    Like a tsunami of merciless raw emotion, Venom Prison’s new album, “Samsara,” hits the heavy metal world with devastating force. For their sophomore release the UK based band offers listeners a scorching extreme onslaught of relentless brutality.

    Venom Prison pushes their sound in a more abrasive and technical direction on this new album, while offering more explosive and dynamic sounding compositions. Compared to their first album, “Animus,” I personally feel as though the band drastically improved in terms of songwriting, while also finding more ways to breakaway from the standard technical death metal/hardcore stereotypes. Listeners will instantly notice that Venom Prison seems to have a knack for writing explosive sounding riffs that compliment singer Larissa Stupar’s unapologetic and vivid vocal delivery. Also, I think the production for this new album does a great job capturing Venom Prison’s passionate extreme music making abilities.

    The album flows with tremendous synergy and from the beginning riff of the opening song, “Matriphagy,” you find yourself intently listening to the vicious world of endless chaos. I really like the opening song, “Matriphagy,” and the guitar parts created by guitarists Ash Gray and Ben Thomas are truly ferocious and construct these monumental sounding bursts of distorted destruction. The next song, “Megillus & Leana,” maintains a bombastic and dynamic edge full of bone crushing guitar riffs, monstrous sounding drum parts and utterly unforgiving vocals.

    Out of all the tracks of this album I think, “Uterine Industrialisation,” is probably the most intense and musically catastrophic sounding songs on the album. You are instantly hit with a juggernaut of malicious attitude as Larissa comes roaring over the savage guitar riff assault. I also recommend checking out the music video for the song, which I feel compliments band’s vivid and extreme nature quite well.

    Another song I want to mention is, “Self Inflicted Violence,” which hits hard with a sinister sounding main driving riff and contains some powerful vocal sections to amplify the song’s pulverizing overall tone. Other tracks to take note of are “Sadistic Rituals,” Asura’s Realm” and “Dukkha.” All around you hear a strong and talented group of musicians who combine their efforts into crafting very meaningful tracks of extreme music. There is no cheapness pertaining to how these songs sound, because I find the music is written with great purpose and attention to detail when laying out the drum, guitar and vocal parts.

    In the end, Venom Prison’s “Samsara” is without question one of this year’s most impressive sounding releases and serves as a reminder on how bands should approach the songwriting process. In my opinion Venom Prison really took their music to the next level and one can tell they put a lot of energy into writing some very engaging pieces of music. In this day and age we need more artists willing to not hold back and step outside from the repetitive metal clichés. When a band gives that 101% effort listeners can definitely hear the difference. So, I highly recommend keeping an eye on Venom Prison, because I think they have the potential to release even more strong sounding albums.



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