Psychodrome
by Venator
Erik Salazar
Erik Salazar
Found a vinyl copy of this all the way in San Antonio, TX. Was so happy when I saw this for sale in the wild at a small record store there. This is some of the best heavy metal to come out this year (and there have been a ton of great releases in 2025). Venator show that for some bands, there is no second album slump. They’ve only improved upon what they established on album one with some of their catchiest tunes to date. Try not singing Steal the Night after you hear it. Go on, I dare you!
Favorite track: Steal the Night.
Jørgen
Jørgen
A sun-soaked cut of classic heavy metal! Really memorable and a standout for the year!
Favorite track: Steal the Night.
Gojira Blume
Gojira Blume
A darker Venator for darker times. Very strong second half.
Favorite track: Fear the Light.
StrengthWithin
StrengthWithin
Everything about this album rocks. The intro is killer. The album puts me in the 80s.
Favorite track: Steal the Night.
N2125
N2125
Venator's music is so good but the audio mixing is really letting it down. It'd be great to hear the albums mixed professionally
regardless, loving it 🤘
regardless, loving it 🤘
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1. |
Into the Drome
01:06
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Steal the Night
04:10
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Walking down the street, you're sweating from the heat
And seeking for a night to waste
The boredom makes you blind, I know what's in your mind
And soon you'll get the taste
Well I see it in your eyes
The flame is on the rise
You know where I'm to find
Agitated by the burdens in your life
You're heading to my hiding zone
No need of any vain, no wariness or pain
You'll never be alone
Forever by your side
Is always me to guide
You til the end of time
I steal the night, steal the night
Take you to that pit of gold
As I steal your light
Steal the night, steal the night
Take you to that pit of gold
As I steal your light
Rotten to the core, desirous for more
You're shattering from flesh to bone
It's driving you insane, life's going down the drain
An endless psychodrome
Now you're begging for release
Trying not to please
The devil in disguise
I hold the light until the end of time
I call the night and you're afraid to fight
Always surprised when I lurk into your mind
To keep the music right
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Children of the Beast
04:59
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The show was on and the pride was not to hide
From the moment on that I heard them scream
We played along to the music of the night
They let it out, let the tension grow
Children of the beast
In a whirl of thunder
You cannot kill the feast
They're the children of the beast
The night went on and my life was on its height
The ecstasy really makes you feel
The time is right to revive those violent nights
Where the goat runs free and the girls wear steel
Take the night for granted when you come to taste
Some electric frenzy, there's no time to waste
In a world where nobody feels you, all is lost and you're left aloneSay so long to your paltry past
Now the rhythm is on and the devil is on the run
I recall some old times that we've been through
I recall all those empty nights
Tried to keep us alive with no brainfuel
Didn't know if we'd ever thrive
Don't let go, you'll never know
When your time grows
Give em heat and start to feed
Their hunger for the roll
The show was on and the pride was not to hide
From the moment on that I heard them scream
The time is right to revive those violent nights
Where the goat runs free and the sound is steel
Got much to burn
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Ravening Angel
05:25
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Lock your houses and get off the streets
Tell all the people "Hold onto your seats!
You're about to see magnificy
Tires scream as they burn in the heat
From the darkness emerges a fiend
A motor yells, like straight from hell
If you think that you've witnessed all kind
Woe to your innocent mind
He's gonna come here tonight
He's speeding faster than light
Riding free, rising up in the night
Ravening angel
Riding free, cruising off with the light
Ravening angel
Riding free, rising up in the night
The engine is setting your fate right
Like a flash he comes passing you by
Night after night and no one knows why
He knows his ways and never stays
People break down in terror and fear
Whatever he's up to, they don't want him here
He's got to go, but they all know
That it don't matter who dares to try
To stop him you stare in deaths eye
So when he comes back tonight
Look out! You'll better be steppin aside
Hear him calling in the night
Death he creeps as the engine rolls tight
Wicked traveler, iron knight
Cross his ways and the road you will bite
So be observant and be bright
The devil takes those who give him his ride
No one's faster and many tried
Petty on those for they all lost their lives
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The Final Call
06:47
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In a realm where war is only stories for the night
In a realm where war is only there to give you a fright
Well you think there ain't nothing to fear
Those days seem out of range
Though the news of the world that you hear
Show you nothing of change
Another brother going for the kill
Another mother crying in her thrill
Another pact of peace running out of time
Believe the deceiver
Let him throne
And leave this world behind
In a realm where all the leaders gamble for our fate
And the one that portrays your feeder serves you nothing but hate
Well you don't know when they're out to kill
While their anger may grow
There you wait for their asses to chill
'Til they ask for your own
The way to take action
Original to none
The art of religion
Or the questioning of the wrong
Decide what you favor
And who shall be the next
The sense of morality may suddenly seem too complex
Another brother going for the kill
Another mother dying in her thrill
Another pact of peace running out of time
Believe the deceiver
Let him throne
And leave this world behind
You see them here standing, arranged one by one
Awaiting their leaders for they have oh so ever longed
Brothers and sisters, united as one
And blessed be those who are willing to on stick to their guns
The mouth of destruction, it reaches to gnaw
On the heads of the people misremembering their own laws
With purged opposition the player has won
Now the mills of justicia run in favor of the one
A whole land is dying, it's head is outworn
The wise men are lying while their new world's to be born
To turn ones perspective as history's shown
Is no more than child's play, so your garden of ashes can grow
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Radar
04:25
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Step into the light
Play your little Friday show
And in the morning in the heat
You're going all fatal blow
But when the burden of the night
Drags you to another low
The heavy hunger for the meat
Makes you feel constrained to go
All is coming around
But you'll not hear a sound
The music's all your head
Now marvel and see
Got a sense like a radar
Over miles over zones
In the act of a raider
I'm infesting thy own
Come into the light
Turn your love straight to mine
The way I caught you in the act
I know you wanna start to hide
But when the burden of the streets
Shows you no place to go
The rhythm's showing it's effect
And so the hunger starts to grow
And it's coming around
And you'll not hear a sound
The musics blowing your head
Marvel and see
Step into the light
Play your little Friday show
And in the morning in the heat
You're going all fatal blow
But when the burden of the night
Drags you to another low
The heavy hunger for the meat
Makes you feel constrained to go
All is coming around
But you'll not hear a sound
The music's all your head
Now marvel and see
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Race to Glory
03:30
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Blacked out, thrown about
My minds in turmoil
Drained through the power of the heat
Ragged down in and out
To an infernal
Unholy entity of speed
On the road of my life
I know I'm never too high to ride
See the will in my eyes
I will not fail on my race
To glory tonight
Packed out, let it out
Don't need your pardon
For I got everything I need
Stay proud to be loud
You got a problem?
Think you can throw away my glee?
I'm in no need for a guide
No need to clarify what's wrong in my life
I got the roll by my side
And I won't fail on my race to glory tonight
Turn on the power
Turn on the action
This is the hour
We'll race to glory
Bring the petrol, make it bleed
Pump it in my veins, cause I'm in need of speed
Start the engine, let it thrive
My hearts a motor and I don't need no license to drive
Blacked out, thrown about
My minds in turmoil
Drained through the power of the heat
Ragged down in and out
To an infernal
Unholy entity of speed
Turn on the power
Turn on the action
This is the hour
We'll race to glory tonight
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Dynamite
04:16
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Gonna keep me burning, a fire down low
Gonna keep me yearning for a feeling I don't know
Bound in a corner I feel thy come-in
Drawn in a cycle of passion and sin
Ignited, you're lighted dynamite
Gonna keep me burning to the pinnacle of fire
Lighted dynamite
Gonna keep me burning til you blow and take me higher
Lighted dynamite
You take the passion and turn it to pain
Fanatic witch bound to drive me insane
What kind of game are you dragging me in?
Play of self destruction I know I can't win
You keep me burning down to the core
A downward spiral of hedonist horror
Use me, misuse me, whatever you please
The foul game of pleasure's and endless disease
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Fear the Light
04:14
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Hell be you nigh
My eyes are dowered, makes me lower your kind
I'm feeling a strain
Open your mind!
The lies that govern you are all that you'll find
They'll make you no saint
In the night a contact with the might
Makes the fire hold onto me
Til the end of time
In the night I feel the might
So be bright and fear the light
Hell be you nigh
The lies of love and hate, they all make you blind
A flea in your brain
Open your mind!
They offer nothing but a waste of your time
No fortune nor fame
In the night a contact with the might
Makes the fire hold onto thee
Til the end of time
In the night a contact with the might
Makes the fire hold onto me
Til the end of time
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Astral Seduction
04:41
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Bright eyes flickering on the solitude in me
Twilight reigning upon a path that i can't see
She crawled into my mind like a woodworm in a tree
I'm tied by the deceit of sensuality
In my young years I'd thrive
Joyful, curious and always benign
Sought a beatific life
Til the cutting moment I saw her shine
Starlight
Wrath of Venus shining bright
Starlight
Neutron star enlights the sky
She's got venomous eyes
You can't hide
Behind every expression hides a devious thief
I try not to caress the devil sprout's mischief
Prancing through the darkness, dancing like a flame
Her joy seems so harmless, but it's oddly strange
Under moonlight she flies
Lifting high into scarab blue skies
Like a siren she cries
As the night creature starts shining bright
Through the cosmos, there she flies
Wrath of Venus shining bright
Neutron star enlights the sky
Watch her dancing into the night
See them gazing glistening eyes
Starlight, shine bright!
Under moonlight she flies
Lifting high into scarab blue skies
Like a siren she cries
As the night creature starts shining bright
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about
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present the highly anticipated second album of Austria’s VENATOR, Psychodrome, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
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 labelmates TOXIKULL last year. That increased charisma spills over into their second album, Psychodrome. Indeed, with a title and cover like that, Psychodrome builds an era-specific atmosphere that’s “on brand” for a vintage-savvy band like VENATOR – but such sometimes-superficial moves would all be for naught if they didn’t have the SONGS to back them up! And back ‘em up, VENATOR do here, showing ever more sides to their sonic arsenal whilst sounding characteristically themselves. Much of LP#2 punches forward to a cruising mid-tempo – fist-shaking, for sure, but never overly speedy – while some other songs dip into tempos both faster and slower. But no matter the speed, VENATOR quickly and compellingly establish mood and almighty MELODY: street level as before, but with that heart-on-sleeve passion that puts this into a realm all its own – one that’s authentically mid ‘80s heavy metal heroism in one sense, but strangely refreshing in another. Frontman Hans Huemer once again rallies the warriors with a performance that’s rough and emotive in equal measure, while the rest of his bandmates sharpen their swords with slightly more clarity and spit-shine those godly HOOKS to deadly levels. A lateral development from their almighty debut, then, but another modern classic in the making!
Just like that debut LP, anyone pining for the 1983/’84 peak of the likes of Tokyo Blade, Grim Reaper, OZ, Witch Cross, Heavy Load, and even Judas Priest, here again do you have a band adding to that hallowed lineage rather than plagiarizing it – or perhaps moving the calendar year to 1985, fucking CLASSIC either way. VENATOR command you to enter their Psychodrome!
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 labelmates TOXIKULL last year. That increased charisma spills over into their second album, Psychodrome. Indeed, with a title and cover like that, Psychodrome builds an era-specific atmosphere that’s “on brand” for a vintage-savvy band like VENATOR – but such sometimes-superficial moves would all be for naught if they didn’t have the SONGS to back them up! And back ‘em up, VENATOR do here, showing ever more sides to their sonic arsenal whilst sounding characteristically themselves. Much of LP#2 punches forward to a cruising mid-tempo – fist-shaking, for sure, but never overly speedy – while some other songs dip into tempos both faster and slower. But no matter the speed, VENATOR quickly and compellingly establish mood and almighty MELODY: street level as before, but with that heart-on-sleeve passion that puts this into a realm all its own – one that’s authentically mid ‘80s heavy metal heroism in one sense, but strangely refreshing in another. Frontman Hans Huemer once again rallies the warriors with a performance that’s rough and emotive in equal measure, while the rest of his bandmates sharpen their swords with slightly more clarity and spit-shine those godly HOOKS to deadly levels. A lateral development from their almighty debut, then, but another modern classic in the making!
Just like that debut LP, anyone pining for the 1983/’84 peak of the likes of Tokyo Blade, Grim Reaper, OZ, Witch Cross, Heavy Load, and even Judas Priest, here again do you have a band adding to that hallowed lineage rather than plagiarizing it – or perhaps moving the calendar year to 1985, fucking CLASSIC either way. VENATOR command you to enter their Psychodrome!
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