Venom INC.

Venom are an English extreme metal band formed in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, Venom's first two albums—Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982)—are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Venom's second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of an extreme metal subgenre: black metal. Venom's original personnel came from three different bands: Guillotine, Oberon and Dwarf Star. The original Guillotine featured Jeffrey Dunn and Dave Rutherford on guitars, Dean Hewitt on bass guitar, Dave Blackman on vocals and Chris Mercater on drums who replaced Paul Burke, the original drummer when the band was founded.

With influences that include Machine Head, Tool, In Flames, Wovenwar, Lamb of God, and
more, the music of Salem's Childe is a hard-hitting and violently energetic mix of melody,
aggression, and hooks. Sonically, Salem's Childe is a genre-defying blend of sounds--a perfect
storm of thrash, groove, prog, and modern hard rock that finds itself as equally at home in the
mainstream as it does the underground.

Texas based Metal band formed of chaos in the year of 2020. With their bigger than Texas Metal sound, Holy Hell will crush and pound your senses to the core. Veterans to the music scene, Holy Hell formed from different style’s and bands. Coming from bands such as Mortality, Numb to the Blow, Mortal Desecration and HOD. Holy Hell brings Metal back to the Original Thrash, Hardcore, Death traditional ways. Brutal sounds, Head-banging riffs and Into the pit moshing. Holy Hell is a band you don't want to miss.

Alfred Arriola (Vox) Pete Hernandez (Guitar) Jesus Gonzalez (Bass) Dennis Sanders ( Drums)

Narcotic Wasteland started as a side project Dallas Toler- Wade had been working the past few years when he was not touring or in the writing/studio mode with "Nile." "The more songs I completed for "Narcotic Wasteland," The more I wanted to put a full band lineup together," said Dallas.

Toler- Wade asked longtime friend Edwin Rhone (lead guitar/vox) if he was interested, which he was. They both had played in some metal bands together in the early to mid 1990’s. Edwin had later recommended Chris ("Lutachrist") Dupre for bass/vox.

Dallas stated, "Chris came in and not only knew his parts, but owned them with lots of attitude. So the only thing left was finding a drummer. After trying out several drummers from all over the states over two years, my band mate in "Nile," George Kollias, recommended Erik Schultek. Erik did not only nail the material, but fit very well to the style and sound of the music.”
The band’s overall concept is very reflective of the city where Dallas, Edwin, and Chris grew up. Fayetteville, North Carolina, a military town, has a PTSD rate of up to 75% in males, and is the highest rated city in the US for Shaken Baby Syndrome. The availability of street drugs is astounding, and the ever growing epidemic of addiction to pharmaceutical drugs is an extremely toxic and unstable environment to grow up and live in.

Dallas states, “Other than joining the military, there was nothing to do but work low paying jobs, do drugs, and get in trouble, but music saved us from the otherwise depressing round of existence. For Edwin, Chris, and I, there was not much of a positive outlet there other than music.” Although hard drugs and death are sort of a main topic, it’s not the only topic. We as a band, do not want too many limitations on what we write about.”

“On the first album,” added Dallas, “There was a song about South Carolina’s most famous serial killer, and another song with an anti-organized religion message. Like I have said many times over the years, Iron Maiden doesn’t only write songs about iron maidens! We are in the process of finishing up our second album right now, and the topic of drug use and death is still present, but we are also branching off a bit to talk about venomous human behavior, self reflection, and big pharmaceutical companies ruining lives for big profits.”

Dallas continues with one of his infamous monologues, “Musically, the band is retaining it’s already established sound while expanding into more dark, sinister, and very sad sounding passages, capturing the mental imagery of the lyrics. We like writing music that challenges us as players, but also actually means something. We want to connect to the listener as emotionally as possible, to have a release for their anger and sadness. That to us is the most important mission as songwriters for this band.”

Narcotic Wasteland plans to release their second album in the spring of 2017, and plan to hit the road shortly after, or when the album is being released.

Founded by guitarist Kaleb Daniels with bassist Adam Costello, Pontifex is a black metal band with heavy symphonic influences. Pontifex plays tribute to the originators of the style while expanding it past traditional limitations, incorporating elements of Classical, Black Metal, and Thrash Metal into an unholy trinity.

Musically, Pontifex was inspired by bands such as Burzum, Immortal, Possessed, Venom, and Horna to create an ambient and symphonic sound blended with thrash & black metal riffing, intense drum playing, and non-conventional brutal vocals. Pontifex brings black metal to a different spectrum of darkness, exploring the grim arts of melancholy through melodic and harmonic progressions relying on the resolution of dissonance to achieve an ethereal sound, with lyrics that express the darker side of human consciousness.

Adam and Kaleb are classically trained multi-instrumentalists who met in high school in 2013, and decided to collaborate on a black metal project that eventually became Pontifex. The band lacked a second guitarist and vocalist, and in early 2016, Pontifex found vocalist/guitarist Haniel Adhar, of the brass-death metal band Markradonn, through an ad posted on the internet. Upon receiving the demo Sepulcher of Eternal Darkness he immediately agreed to work with the band as the vocalist and lead guitarist. And in 2017, Pontifex recruited Death Metal legend and founding member of pioneering technical death metal band Suffocation, Mike Smith, to play drums on their debut album. With a completed line-up, Pontifex has laid the foundation of future success, which includes a recent endorsement from Sinister Guitar Picks and international radio play on Metal Devastation Radio and Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio.

In the Spring of 2017, Pontifex inked a deal with Bluntface Records to release their debut full length, …From the Pale Mist in the Summer/Early fall of 2017, which will be mixed by Yanic Bercier (Ex-Quo Vadis, current Gone In April Drummer). Pontifex will be the first black metal band released under Bluntface Records.