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VENOMOUS CONCEPT Announces First U.S. Headlining Tour

VENOMOUS CONCEPT , the old-school hardcore/punk project featuring Shane Embury (guitar, NAPALM DEATH ), Kevin Sharp (vocals, BRUTAL TRUTH ), Danny Lilker (bass, BRUTAL TRUTH , NUCLEAR ASSAULT ) and Danny Herrera (drums, NAPALM DEATH ),will kick off its first U.S. headlining tour on September 15 in San Diego with KILL THE CLIENT , MURDER CONSTRUCT and NAILS in the support slots.

The dates are as follows:

Sep. 15 - San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick Sep. 16 - Hollywood, CA - Viper Room Sep. 17 - San Francisco, CA - Thee Parkside Sep. 18 - Portland, OR - Satyricon Sep. 19 - Seattle, WA - Studio Seven Sep. 20 - Chicago, IL - Double Door Sep. 21 - Detroit, MI - Blondie's Sep. 22 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar Sep. 23 - Brooklyn, NY - Club Europa Sep. 24 - Montreal, QC - Katacombes Sep. 25 - Toronto, ON - Sneaky Dee's (w/ NAILS, MURDER SQUAD)

Commented Embury : "We are really excited to be doing our first-ever U.S. tour as VENOMOUS CONCEPT .

"It's been hectic, with NAPALM being so busy playing shows everywhere, but we are finally going to play 11 shows in the U.S. and four in Japan to support our 'Poisoned Apple' record which came out last year. The shows in Japan are also with NAPALM DEATH and DYING FETUS , so it's double duties for me every night down there but that's going to be a lot of fun.

"The live shows are going to be a smash of West Coast/Japanese and Euro-style hardcore from our favorite period — the late and great Eighties so it's going to get messy! We'll be playing a few new tunes from our forthcoming split with WOLFBRIGADE too.

"Once this tour in the U.S. is done, NAPALM DEATH will be heading to Europe with WAKING THE CADAVER , MACABRE and IMMOLATION for five weeks. It's a short but sweet break for X-mas and then we start rehearsing material for our new album. Believe me, it is going to be crazier than the last."

VENOMOUS CONCEPT 's second effort, "Poisoned Apple" , came out in April 2008. it was the follow-up to 2004's "Retroactive Abortion" , which was released on Mike Patton 's Ipecac Recordings .

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If the state of today’s society is reflected in music, hardcore punk / grindcore veterans VENOMOUS CONCEPT have returned to the stage with a fitting soundtrack. The band’s fourth full-length frontal assault, ‘Politics Versus The Erection’ manifests a no-nonsense and outspoken voice, resonating with the chaos that reigns over the world today.

Starting out in 2004, the band was conceived as something like a grind punk supergroup – if that term can even be applied to a bunch of people with clear counterculture preferences. The name was chosen to pay homage to the legendary POISON IDEA.

At the core of VENOMOUS CONCEPT you will find BRUTAL TRUTH vocalist Kevin Sharp and Shane Embury, the iconic bass player of NAPALM DEATH. The two musicians had bonded over beer and pizza as well as their mutual love of punk heroes such as BLACK FLAG, SYSTEMATIC DEATH, GBH, SIEGE, and of course POISON IDEA.

The duo soon set about plotting its own assault on the style. Armed with bucketloads of coffee, the pair roped in Danny Herrera of NAPALM DEATH on drums, as well as MELVINS guitarist Buzz Osborne. A record deal was signed with Mike Patton and VENOMOUS CONCEPT’s first album, ‘Retroactive Abortion’ (2004) was followed by a split-CD with Japanese grind band 324 (2006) and another in 2008 with BLÖOD DÜSTER.

Buzz Osborne eventually went on a hiatus, but he never really left and there is always a chance for his return – schedules permitting. Shane switched to guitar when longtime friend Dan Lilker (BRUTAL TRUTH, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, ex-ANTHRAX) joined on bass. Next, VENOMOUS CONCEPT brought in John Cooke of CORRUPT MORAL ALTAR on second guitar for touring. Sophomore full-length ‘Poisoned Apple’ hit the stores in 2008.

A quiet spell followed, but the band returned fully charged and ready for attack with their third record ‘Kick Me Silly – VC III’ in 2016, which saw VENOMOUS CONCEPT continue in their trademark grindcore punk style. Following a European tour with BRUJERIA in 2019 and several festivals shows, the musicians headed back into the studio to write and record their fourth album.

With over 30 minutes of short, sharp musical blasts, venomous lyrics, satirical animations, and by offering their candid views, VENOMOUS CONCEPT have again created a record that breathes a true grind punk spirit.

• Kevin Sharp : Vocals
• Danny Herrera : Drums
• John Cooke : Guitar
• Shane Embury : Bass

This band is no longer active on Season of Mist.

Grindcore / hardcore punk veterans VENOMOUS CONCEPT (featuring band members of BRUTAL TRUTH and NAPALM DEATH) are now premiering their entire new album ‘Politics Versus the Erection’. Listen to the record via the official Season of Mist Youtube Channel HERE.

Grindcore / hardcore punk veterans VENOMOUS CONCEPT (featuring band members of BRUTAL TRUTH and NAPALM DEATH) are now premiering a lyric video for their brand new track “Simian Flu”. Watch the video at the official Season of Mist Youtube Channel HERE.

Grindcore / hardcore punk veterans VENOMOUS CONCEPT (featuring band members of BRUTAL TRUTH and NAPALM DEATH) are now releasing a new song of their upcoming new record. The track “Lemonade” is streaming at the official Season of Mist Youtube Channel HERE.

VENOMOUS CONCEPT, featuring current and ex-members of NAPALM DEATH, BRUTAL TRUTH, CORRUPT MORAL ALTAR have kicked off their previously announced European tour supporting BRUJERIA.

VENOMOUS CONCEPT, featuring current and ex-members of NAPALM DEATH, BRUTAL TRUTH, CORRUPT MORAL ALTAR, and more, will be embarking on a European tour in support of BRUJERIA. Find the full list of tour dates below.

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Venomous Concept announce UK/Ireland early 2024 tour

Venomous Concept , a hardcore punk supergroup comprised of both current and former members of Napalm Death , Brutal Truth , and other notable bands, has scheduled a tour across the United Kingdom and Ireland in early 2024. For this tour, they have enlisted the renowned Dave Witte from Municipal Waste to handle the drums. 

Dates are listed below.

01/12 Southampton, UK @ The 1865 01/13 London, UK @ Boston Music Room 01/14 Southend, UK @ Chinnery's 01/15 Manchester, UK @ Star & Garter 01/16 Huddersfield, UK @ The Parish 01/17 Newcastle, UK @ The CLUNY 01/18 Dundee, UK @ Church 01/19 Glasgow, UK @ Audio 01/20 Belfast, IRE @ Limelight 2 01/21 Dublin, IRE @ Grand Social 01/22 Swansea, UK @ The Bunkhouse 01/23 Colchester, UK @ Arts Centre 01/24 Brighton, UK @ The Arch 01/25 Tunbridge Well,s UK @ The Forum 01/26 Plymouth, UK @ The Junction 01/27 Birmingham, UK @ Devils Dog 01/28 Bristol, UK @ Rough Trade

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• Sun 28 Jan Bristol, Rough Trade Venomous Concept
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• Thu 18 Jan Church Dundee Venomous Concept
• Wed 17 Jan Newcastle upon Tyne, The Cluny Venomous Concept
• Mon 15 Jan Manchester, Star & Garter Venomous Concept
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• Sun 15 Nov London, The Underworld Venomous Concept, Cripple B*st*rds, All Will Suffer, The Atrocity Exhibit

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After battling Riot and Carnage in his two previous outings, a new concept trailer finally has Eddie Brock and his symbiote face off against his true polar opposite in a thrilling Venom: The Last Dance concept trailer. Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock/Venom has proven to be the most successful sub-franchise in Sony's Spider-Man Universe , and the upcoming third installment in the Marvel franchise is set to be Hardy's last. It's hitherto unknown who Venom will face for his final big-screen outing, but one particular symbiote would be particularly symbolic.

Screen Culture has released a new concept trailer via YouTube that sees Brock and Venom face off against the aptly named Anit-Venom. In the trailer, Anti-Venom is played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who has been confirmed for the Venom: The Last Dance cast in a hitherto unconfirmed role. Check out the thrilling trailer below, made with a mix of previous movie clips, original voice work, and AI imagery:

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Book Tour: At home with Amor Towles

The author of “A Gentleman in Moscow” and “The Lincoln Highway” guides us through his personal library.

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The library in Amor Towles’s beautifully appointed home not far from Gramercy Park in Manhattan looks and feels like the Platonic ideal of the concept: tall windows, tasteful art on the walls, many comfortable seating options and well-ordered shelves filled with classic literature. Perfect for reading in, of course, but when I visited in March, Towles first wanted to talk about writing. This is the room where he composed, among other books, his acclaimed bestsellers “A Gentleman in Moscow” and “The Lincoln Highway.” (His newest, “Table for Two,” a collection of stories and a novella, was published last month.)

Towles first brought out a few of what he calls the “design books” for his novels — notebooks that he fills with details for about four years before he starts officially writing. “I’m just trying to imagine: What happens? Who are the people?” he said. “Where are they from, what’s their personality? What are the settings? Who says what, and why? What are the tones?”

Some of the notes he scribbles are longer and more fully realized than others, but Towles estimates that he writes 80 percent of what ends up in his fiction on a computer, once the handwritten design books have done their duty.

Guides from the past

To conjure all those details and tones, Towles partly and very happily relies on documents dating from the eras he writes about. His shelves still include classic travel guides to Moscow, including one published by Intourist in 1932 and a Baedeker guide from 1914. “Intourist was the Politburo-owned tourist agency of Russia,” Towles said, “and at one time its offices were in the Metropol Hotel [the primary setting of ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’]. I had street maps from the ’30s that I could look at. Part of it was to see how they described for the Westerner something that they were trying to impress them with, et cetera.”

A framed picture of Ewan McGregor, in character, used in the production of the recently released adaptation of “A Gentleman in Moscow,” sits on a shelf nearby. Towles said it appeared as part of a secret police file in the show: “You don’t even notice it on screen, but it’s tucked under a paper clip on top of the file.”

A full encyclopedia set from 1931 is another treasure that combines pleasure and work for Towles. “I think it was 48 cents per book. My first novel, ‘Rules of Civility,’ happened to be set in 1938, and I thought: ‘This is great, I can check the population of New York City right there.’ I love old, weird reference.”

A treasured checklist

Towles majored in literature as an undergraduate at Yale and took the few creative-writing courses the school offered at the time. When he was a sophomore, the experimental-fiction writer Walter Abish was a visiting professor.

“At the end of the class,” Towles remembered, “he said to us: ‘All this has been great. I liked your work. I hope my comments have been helpful. But probably the most valuable thing I can do is give you a hundred books that I like.’ So he gave us this list. And because he was an avant-gardist, it was a lot of people who, at the age of 19, I had never heard of: Andre Breton, Barthelme, Beckett, Heinrich Böll … international writers, but all playing with form, that’s what he was interested in.”

Towles immediately started checking for the recommended titles anytime he visited a used-book store. “I’d stack them up, and I’d read a novel a day off of his list,” he said. “That was a totally different kind of experience than studying Henry James or Shakespeare or Chaucer in the academy. A lot of these books [on Abish’s list] were not perfectly made. A lot of them are stabs at something.”

Matthiessen, mentor and friend

The year after Abish taught at the school, Peter Matthiessen arrived for a semester. Matthiessen was already a celebrated writer of both nonfiction (“The Snow Leopard”) and fiction (“At Play in the Fields of the Lord”). He singled out Towles’s work for praise and told the young writer, “I’m going to take your time here very seriously, and I hope that you’re going to take your time with me very seriously, too.” The encouragement was “a gift,” Towles said. The next year, Towles worked with him again, and the two struck up a long friendship.

Towles laughed remembering Matthiessen’s underwhelmed reaction to the draft manuscript of “Rules of Civility” (“He didn’t know why I was writing a book set in 1938”), but when the book became a bestseller, the mentor wrote him a note of congratulations, saying that his sister had loved it and was thrilled to find her brother’s name in its acknowledgments.

New ideas, new language

In addition to his fond remembrances of his formal education, Towles referred to himself more than once during the tour as a “reader-writer,” someone who is constantly refining each of those skills in a conscious conversation between them. He stopped at a shelf of books — the “big ideas” collection, kept together — by Augustine, Darwin, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud and others. “What these things have in common for me is that [their authors] had to invent a new language to express their discovery. They weren’t doing the new version of something or doing a ‘spin’ on so and so. [Freud’s] ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ is a totally radical, weird book.”

“Marx and the group around him, they invented that whole thing of, ‘There is no more time! Now is the time to make a decision!’ This sweeping, bold things in single-sentence paragraphs: ‘ All people must …’ That’s electric. And you realize that you can apply that language in your novel. It’s doing something very different. I get very interested in how non-narrativists turn on language in the pursuit of a particular outcome, that I can then sort of use in some weird way.”

“Now you’re in the first-edition zone,” Towles said, opening the glass doors directly behind his writing desk. “And now you’re really into heroes: Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Conrad, Emily Dickinson.” (Towles also listed the Transcendentalists in this league; he was born and raised in the Boston area and said that “a lot of the personality aspects of Emerson and Thoreau are second nature to me.”)

“This is kind of crazy, just time coming around the corner,” he said, pulling one modest-size blue book off the shelf. “This is a first edition of ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It was owned by Dorothy Ann Scarritt,” he noted, pointing to her signature inside the book. “This is August 1925. She later becomes famous because she is Oppenheimer’s secretary at Los Alamos. She’s like the second employee at Los Alamos; she’s there the entire time and she organizes his entire life. She’s involved with bringing everyone in, getting them set up.”

Scarritt’s signature has a lot of company among Towles’s books. A signed copy of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize lecture — a small book nestled inside a larger case — was a gift from his wife. Towles is a longtime fan of Dylan’s and mentioned him in the same sentence as Rimbaud and T.S. Eliot, so when the singer received the Nobel in literature in 2016 to divided opinion, Towles was ecstatic. “It was not controversial for me at all .”

Going back a century further, Towles took down a copy of Proust signed by its translator, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, to Joseph Conrad in 1922.

On a shelf across the room, Towles has another edition of Proust’s work, as well as several books about what he calls “Proust-y stuff” — “different things about Proust — Proust’s letters, paintings in Proust, the music of Proust …”

A long-running book club

Proust also holds a place of honor in an intense book club that Towles has been in with three close friends for just over two decades. “We basically read a novel a month, and we do projects. And we do almost explicitly dead authors; occasionally we veer from that, but mostly it’s dead. We started with Proust. Twenty years ago, we read it as a team. That took longer. We didn’t do it over seven dinners [one per book], more like 14 — over a year and a half.”

The club’s creation was inspired by Harold Bloom’s “Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?,” in which the literary scholar and critic pondered which writers he’d learned more from about the human condition: Plato or Homer? Freud or Proust?

“I was turning 40 in like two months,” Towles said, recalling when he read Bloom’s book. “I thought, if I live to 80 and read a book carefully a month, that means I have 480 books left. And if that’s true, I better focus on books that you could reread at 20, 40 and 60 and learn something new. I was ranting about this to my friend Ann Brashares at a cocktail party, and she said, ‘I’m in.’ And we’ve been going ever since.”

Given the size and ambitions of the books they normally choose, one of the friends recently suggested a “palate cleanser,” which led to “a dinner we called the Fitzgerald-Salinger Death Match. We realized that we’d all read ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ as children . So the question was: Which was better? We would reread both in a week and then come back and debate.” I later realized I had left Towles’s home without asking who won.

An earlier version of this article misidentified the person who sent Peter Matthiessen a note after reading "Rules of Civility." It was Matthiessen's sister, not his daughter.

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Editing by John Williams. Photography by Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post. Design and development by Beth Broadwater. Photo editing by Annaliese Nurnberg. Copy editing by Jennifer Morehead.