VENOM INC. to headline The Temple stage on Friday at HELLFEST
Behemoth, The Hu and Fields Of The Nephilim other The Temple stage headliners
16-12-2022
VENOM INC., the band featuring original VENOM guitarist Jeff “Mantas” Dunn (guitar) and ex VENOM bassist/vocalist Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan, alongside drummer Jeramie Kling, are announced to headline The Temple Stage at Hellfest 2023, set to take place June 15-18, 2023 in Clisson, France. VENOM INC will headline the Friday show, with a special set. Other headliners for The Temple Stage are BEHEMOTH (Thursday), THE HU (Saturday) and FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM (Sunday). Also perfomrning on The Temple stage on Friday are GORGOROTH, 1349, VREID, DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT, 1914, ACOD, BELEDS and HETQUERTZEN.
KISS, MÖTLEY CRÜE, IRON MAIDEN and SLIPKNOT will headline the overall festival. Also scheduled to appear are DEF LEPPARD, PANTERA, HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES, PORCUPINE TREE, AMON AMARTH, ALTER BRIDGE and WITHIN TEMPTATION, among many others. The full lineup can be found below.
Hellfest 2023 confirmed performers:
IRON MAIDEN
KISS
MÖTLEY CRÜE
DEF LEPPARD
SLIPKNOT
PANTERA
HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES
ALTER BRIDGE
PORCUPINE TREE
GENERATION SEX
AMON AMARTH
PARKWAY DRIVE
SUM 41
WITHIN TEMPTATION
COHEED AND CAMBRIA
SKID ROY
ELEGANT WEAPONS
BRITISH LION
THE QUIREBOYS
P-TROLL
CARPENTER BRUT
PUSCIFER
BEAST IN BLACK
RIVERSIDE
EVERGREY
SCARLEAN
HATEBREED
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD
HO99O9
FLORENCE BLACK
DO OR DIE
ARCHITECTS
IN FLAMES
I PREVAIL
CODE ORANGE
MACHINE GUN KELLY
PAPA ROACH
MOTIONTLESS IN WHITE
ETHS
NOTHING MORE
MOD SUN
ESCAPE THE FATE
VENDED
POWERWOLF
ARCH ENEMY
SEETHER
ASKING ALEXANDRIA
FEVER 333
BLOODYWOOD
COBRA THE IMPALER
TENACIUS D
INCUBUS
ELECTRIC CALLBOY
HALESTORM
THE DISTILLERS
THUNDERMOTHER
SKYND
FISHBONE
SVINHELS
LUDWIG VON 88
POESIE ZERO
VOICE OF HELL CONTEST
RANCID
FLOGGING OLLY
GOGOL BORDELLO
LESS THAN JAKE
COCHNEY REJECTS
THE CHATS
HOMINTERN SECT
PETER PAN SPEEDROCK
SYNDROME 81
BLACK FLAG
MUNICIPAL WASTE
STRAY FROM THE PATH
PRO-PAIN
SOUL GLD
MINDFORCE
SPIRITWORLD
ZULU
HARD MIND
THE GHOST INSIDE
RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR
THE AMITY AFFLICTION
CANE HILL
PALEFACE
END
RESOLVE
BEYOND THE STYX
AMENRA
THE SOFT MOON
BIRDS IN ROW
CELESTE
TODAY IS THE DAY
THE CULT
GREG PUCIATO
PRIMITIVE MAN
WEEDEATER
HELMS ALEE
BONGRIPPER
LLNN
MY DILLIGENCE
CLUTCH
MONSTER MAGNET
EARTHLESS
THE OBSESSED
SONED JESUS
CROWBAR
KING BUFFALO
SPIRIT ADRIFT
DECASIA
MELVINS
DANCEWITH THE DEAD
LEGION OF DOOM
MUTOID MAN
EMPIRE STATE BASTARD
WONVENNEST
DOODSESHADER
KATATONIA
HYPOCRISY
CANDLEMASS
NIGHTFALL
AEPHANEMER
AS I LAY DYING
SUFFOCATION
BLOODBATH
ABORTED
UNEART
FULL OF HELL
NOSTROMO
CANDY
VENEFIXION
MESSUGGAH
VOIVOD
LORNA SHORE
BORN OF OSIRIS
GOROD
LOATHE
TEN56
THE DALI THUNDERING CONCEPT
PESTIFER
TESTAMENT
DARK ANGEL
EXODUS
HOLY MOSES
VEKTOR
EVIL INVADERS
SCHIZOPHRENIA
ALEISTER
BEHEMOTH
DARK FUNERAL
HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT
BLACKBRAID
VENOM INC.
GORGOROTH
1349
VREID
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT
1914
ACOD
BELEDS
HETQUERTZEN
THE HU
FAUN
FINNTROLL
MYRATH
SAOR
SVALBARD
HALANDRA
WHITE WARD
NATURE MORTE
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM
PARADISE LOST
LORD OF THE LOST
SHE PAST AWAY
TREPONEM PAL
THE OLD DEAD TREE
STRIGOI
BLOD
VENOM INC. released its second album, “There’s Only Black“, today via Nuclear Blast Records. In celebration of the release, the band released an official music video for the album’s title track “There’s Only Black“.
Watch “There’s Only Black” below.
Watch the previously released lyric video for ‘Come To Me’ below.
Also watch the previously release lyric videos for “How Many Can Die” and ‘Don’t Feed Me Your Lies’ below.
Order ‘There’s Only Black’: https://bfan.link/there-s-only-black.fpo
Lead singer/bassist Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan comments:
“Following Wacken in 2019, our live season closed giving us time where I could have my hip replacement surgery and we could take the recovery time to work on a new album… Little did anyone know we’d be hit by a pandemic that would pause the whole world. We began our work at a pace, then being locked down with no prospect of live shows, I decided there was no need to rush it along but utilize the time to create without the pressure of live work looming. So we began recording our songs .. and after producing twice the amount required, we began editing, touching, improving, and polishing until we finally had what we decided was THE correct album along with the label and here we can finally present to you .. a pure ball of furious… VENOM INC. power that left us feeling proud and excited at the same time…THIS album is now yours!!! And as the world runs through its evolution of its colors, remember… when the sun goes out…THERE’S ONLY BLACK!!!!! AVE”.
He also stated about how guitarist Mantas’s heart attack in 2019 affected the album:
“Well, Mantas died and saw only a black void that he thought was empty… So if life is just lights… what is there when all the light goes? There’s ONLY BLACK. So in order to disclose wat lies beyond, you must abate all fear and take the journey in. Welcome inside our album. Maybe you’ll discover something inside or perhaps for you, you won’t and there will remain ‘ONLY BLACK’..
Not all see the light“
“There’s Only Black” track listing:
01. How Many Can Die (03:21)
02. Infinitum (03:47)
03. Come To Me (03:46)
04. There’s Only Black (04:49)
05. Tyrant (05:25)
06. Don’t Feed Me Your Lies (05:51)
07. Man As God (03:23)
08. Burn Liar Burn (05:32)
09. Nine (03:34)
10. Rampant (04:06)
11. The Dance (04:54)
12. Inferno (05:19)
The follow-up to 2017’s “Avé”, “There’s Only Black” marks the second recording under the name VENOM INC., while Dunn and Dolan have a long history as recording artists together in VENOM, M:PIRE OF EVIL and Mantas solo projects. It also marks the VENOM INC. recording debut of drummer Jeramie “War Machine” Kling (also of IMHUMAN CONDITION), who joined the band in 2018.
