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VenatoR
12+ albums
heavy metalsynthwavespeed metalcyberpunkNWOTHM
about
From the gutters of Austria comes Venator! Full speed or nothin', no bullshit, balls to the wall, HEAVY METAL! Taking influence from Judas Priest, Accept and others, Venator offers a combo of audible steel but with melodic sensibility. Austria's nightriders are just starting their voyage into metal madness and are ready to take over the world and give them all heavy metal ears! 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
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