Everything spilled out, guts and all, into new album Gravity. Moose had stopped touring with them earlier that year ahead of the birth of his daughter, upsetting the band’s foundations (his eventual departure was announced in December 2017), while Matt himself had been struggling at home. But there was a dark side to their victories. We were going, ‘OK, why didn’t this work, and what can we do to rectify it.’ And it was like, ‘Let’s just turn it up to 10, and get the foot back on the pedal, and show people what we can do.’”Ĭourse corrected, Venom’s touring cycle took them from an intimate UK run to massive European festivals, and ended on what appeared to be a high, with two nights at London’s 5,000-capacity Brixton Academy in December 2016. “We knew what we needed to do to get people buzzing again after the Temper Temper thing.
“We played a bit of a game on that one,” Matt admits.
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So much so, that 2015’s Venom was a concerted return to full metal speed and biting aggression – a middle finger to anyone who thought they’d lost their way. But for 2013’s Temper Temper, Matt controversially jetted off to Thailand to write with then-drummer Michael ‘Moose’ Thomas the rockier record missed the mark, and sent their stock plummeting. Scream Aim Fire capitalised on that sound in 2008, taking them to bigger venues across the globe, while 2010’s Fever kept the momentum going and catapulted them into arenas. There was a big surge of this more technical, old-school-sounding record but in a modern way.” The timing was right for us, and a lot of bands like Trivium, Killswitch and that. And then it was the return of the metal band, really. “Between ’, it was very much the Korn, Limp Bizkit era. “It was the right place at the right time for our band,” he remembers.
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