ShowListing.RttP{Venom Inc w/ Necrophagia and Nightbitch @ College Street Music Hall (New Haven)

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College Street Music Hall
238 College St, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

Venom Inc w/ Necrophagia and Nightbitch
Friday, January 8th
@ College Street Music Hall (New Haven)
$25 ($20 advance) / 7:00pm doors / All Ages
Tickets on sale NOW: http://ticketf.ly/1Z4AMz8
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Manic Productions and Premier Concerts Present:

Venom Inc
After more than 20 years and for reasons that will become apparent, along with repeated fan requests, we introduce …
VENOM.INC – IRON and STEEL
Following on from the much acclaimed Prime Evil album era and in the great tradition of VENOM, the three protagonists continue to brew the cauldron......
Mantas - The Demolition Man – Abaddon
Are BACK!
2015
With a launch appearance at the highly respected 'Keep It True festival' in April, followed by live dates in China, Japan and Taiwan in July,
a full European tour, with Polish giants VADER, in September,
with a FULL and CLASSIC VENOM set.
Followed by a brand NEW album
This absolute powerhouse of metal are set to bring you all that was/is and will be Venomously brutal and exciting. It is time to set the record straight and give back what was lost.
Welcome to the beginning of the end....!!

Necrophagia
Necrophagia was one of the first death metal bands. The band was assembled in Wellsville, Ohio in 1983. Their name derives from the act of cannibalizing, or eating a corpse. The word derives from the two Greek words nekron (corpse) and phagein (to eat).

Necrophagia was a popular group in the underground "tape trading" scene of the early-to-mid-1980s. Featuring hard-driving metal and growling vocals, Necrophagia became a pioneer in the fledgling extreme metal genre. Their first full-length album, Season of the Dead, was recorded and released in 1987.

The band then split up due to musical differences, and lay dormant until 1997 when frontman Killjoy reformed the band with then Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo (under the pseudonym Anton Crowley) on guitars, Wayne Fabra on drums and Dustin Havnen on bass. This lineup released the album Holocausto de la Morte and the EP Black Blood Vomitorium. Havnen was then replaced by Jared Faulk, with Gorelord mainman Frediablo also joining as a second guitarist and Opal Enthroned (then Anselmo's wife) joining the band on keyboards. This line up released the Cannibal Holocaust EP in 2001 before splitting up leaving Killjoy & Frediablo as the only members for a short time.

In 2002 Killjoy announced the new Necrophagia line-up. Joining him and Frediablo would be Frediablos brother Fug on guitar, Iscariah (formerly of Immortal) on bass, Titta Tanni on drums and Mirai Kawashima of Japanese avant-garde black metal band Sigh on keyboards. This proved to be the most productive time for Necrophagia, with all members concentrating on the band rather than treating it as a side project. They released the albums The Divine Art of Torture and Harvest Ritual Vol. 1, as well as the Goblins Be Thine EP.

On June 6, 2006 Necrophagia released Slit Wrists And Casket Rot, a live album from their "Harvesting the Dead" tour.

Frediablo left the band in early 2006 to concentrate on his other band Gorelord, and has been replaced by Undead Torment.

On 22 December 2007 Necrophagia announced that Death Trip 69, will be released before Summer 2008, followed by a major tour, but the release of the album has been delayed.

Nightbitch
Coalescing a mission statement of "wicked women, unholy passion and fire nights" with influences musical, aesthetic, chemical and carnal, Nightbitch are "purveyors of some of the finest occult-themed, sleazed-out, trad-flavored metal around" (CT Indie).

Nightbitch formed in the late summer of 2009 when Ipsissimus guitarist Ryan "His Emissary" Adams sought an outlet to reconcile his late-bloomer discovery of Ritchie Blackmore's majestic emanations with his obsession for sleazy 70's occult / exploitation films and plagiarized Danzig riffs. Adams soon hooked up with celebrated doom metal vocalist Phil Swanson (Hour of 13, Seamount, Vestal Claret and many more) through mutual friend Handsome Bill Connnolly (whose No Visible Scars cassette-only label would expose the world to Nightbitch via the "Sex and Magic" debut). The band was quickly rounded out by the formidable rhythm section of longtime friends and veteran CT musicians Chris Taylor (Treebeard, Garbage Barge) and Mark Eles (De Omega) on drums and bass, respsectively.

After gigs opening for such heavyweights as Pentagram, Black Pyramid, Earthride and Midnight, the band travelled to Dublin, Ireland this past September as the back-up band for Hour of 13's live debut at the Dublin Doom Day and played its own gig as a part of the warm-up festivities. The band brought with it the "Sex and Magic" cassette, which would sell out all 100 copies within a month of its release. Upon returning from Dublin, Nightbitch and Swanson amicably parted ways and Taylor assumed vocal duties. In December, Cyclopean Records issued "Sex and Magic" on lavish 180-gram black vinyl limited to 350 copies, which also sold out in one month's time. Analog formats exhausted, the band recently entered the digital realm via Austria's Psychedoomelic Records, where it counts the godly Reverend Bizarre among its labelmates.

With the sensual menace that is Chris Taylor at the helm, Nightbitch is hard at work writing for its debut full-length and shopping new material to various labels while continuing to play out, spreading its Hell-ordained gospel of tradish heavy fucking metal, riffs and sleaze with a sensual, occult bent.