When it was time to then do the album, Metropolis just seemed like the perfect choice, as we had such a good relationship with everybody there and were really familiar with the layout and sound of the room. Then we went back again in October 2013 to do Raising Hell, which incandescently, was the track that bridged the gap between our last album and this one. We really liked the vibe of the studio and the people that work there, are just so cool to work with. MATT – Not really, it was more based on the fact that we did a week’s demo session there about two years ago and had a really good experience with the place. OD – The album was recorded in Metropolis Studios in London, what made you choose this as a location for the recording and was there any particular album that you had heard that made you decide on this? If anything needs adjusting after that, then we did it collectively or in the studio, depending on what sounded the best to us all. So when we finished the Temper Temper touring cycle, around April 2014, we started going through all of the stuff we had and then started writing very seriously with the music first, then I would sit down and write the lyrics over the soundtrack. MATT – We started writing for the album at about July of last year and we had various ideas saved on phones and laptops etc, when we were on tour. OD – When did you start writing for the album, or are there lyrics there from years ago that you just resurrected for this album? So, the process for me to go right back to those periods in my life and capture the intensity really paid off. I wanted to capture the feeling of all of those things that really effected my life when I was growing up, because these days I’m a grown man and happily married. I didn’t want anything fictional, up-lifting or happy: not that we have done that much before, but I really wanted to turn it up a notch in the intensity levels and tap into stuff from my past that still gets me angry and fired up. MATT – On this one specifically, I really wanted to write very dark lyrics, because the music that we were writing was very heavy and very aggressive, so I had to match that with the lyrics and subject matter. OD – From a lyrical perspective, where were you drawing your influences from when writing for the album? When we looked at the idea and then made the connection that we had snakes on the cover, who have venom and we also had the song Venom, it just seemed all too good to be true and had to be done, so that’s how it all came about. We knew that we wanted to have snakes on the cover and also seeing as it is out fifth album, we wanted to have the ‘V’ in there to represent the number five and then obviously the use of the ‘V’ represents ‘valentine’. So this time around, we tried to do things completely different the way we approached the design process. With this album, we actually started with the artwork first, because we have had a pain in the arse in the past with doing the artwork, as we had always left it to the last minute. You see, before we actually decided on the name of the album, that song was already written and completely finished.
MATT – No not at all, it was just more that things were kind of a coincidence. I know that it’s the sixth track on the album, but was it a case of when you wrote the track, you instantly knew it was going to be the title track for the album? OD – First off, lets talk about the new album and why you choose the title ‘Venom’. There is no doubt, that the remainder of this year and the foreseeable months from the start of 2016, will be extremely important for the band to stand up to the hype that surrounds them.
Photo credit © Pali Hudak 2017 Speaking from his Kensington home in London’s affluent W8 suburb, Matt Tuck is taking a day off from the rigorous rehearsal schedule the band have been undergoing, in preparation for a tour that will see them on the road from next week, all the way through to the end of November, before they resume their Venom campaign, with January dates in Australia and America in February.
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