WARGASM’S LONG AWAITED DEBUT ALBUM VENOM OUT NOW
JOINING BABYMETAL ON FALL EUROPEAN TOUR ALONG WITH HEADLINE DATES
Stream Venom HERE
Venom Album Artwork, Wargasm Press Photo (L t R: Milkie Way, Sam Matlock), Photo Credit: Haris Nukem
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“Ready made for breaking stuff, possibly your neck while banging your head.- Alternative Press
“(Venom) cements Wargasm’s position as one of UK heavy music’s leading forces.” (4 stars) – NME
“Wargasm are the pinnacle middle ground found in-between heavy metal, electronic, rave, alternative and industrial created by Milkie Way and Sam Matlock.” – MXDWN
“Ferocious debut album” (4 stars) – DORK
“They’ve just dropped one of 2023’s essential debut albums – Metal Hammer
“Venom is arguably the biggest and heaviest WARGASM have ever sounded, as well as the most creative.”- (4 Stars)– Kerrang!
Today, dynamic London-based duo WARGASM release their long awaited debut album Venom via slowplay/Republic Records.
Stream Venom Album HERE
On the release of Venom the band said: “We’ve been hassled and probed and interrogated since our inception 3 years ago to release our debut album. We chose to take our time and it’s finally here, heavier and hornier than ever before. This is Venom. This is a sordid collusion of euphoria and violence. This is us. We hope it makes you feel something. There’s a pulse in all of our veins, we’re not the same as them x”
In addition to previously released tracks “Modern Love,” Bang Ya Head” ft. Fred Durst, and “Do It So Good,” the album features twelve future rock staples including “Death Rattle,” and title track “Venom.”
In addition to the album, fans can pre-order limited vinyl variants and exclusive merch at www.wargasm.online.
The band have been busy supporting the album as they recently announced numerous album signing events, where they will be playing Guitar Hero with fans- see full list below!
October 27th – London, Black Heart – Venom Album Pop Up Event
October 30th – Bristol, Rough Trade – Guitar Hero + album signing
November 1st – Nottingham, Rough Trade – Guitar Hero + album signing
In addition, they were selected to perform at Spotify’s misfits 2.0 Anti-Prom this week at The Steel Yard in London. All proceeds will be donated to Youth Music, a charity committed to offering music-making opportunities to young people across the UK. Wargasm shared the stage with Jazmin Bean, Cody Frost, ALT BLK ERA, Deijuvhs, and Tokky Horror for the event.
The Venom album follows the band’s recent release of “Modern Love” which featured a cinematic music video and shows off Milkie’s vocals as she self described it as her “Britney moment with a Nine Inch Nails backbone.”Watch “Modern Love” Music Video HERE
It also lands in the wake of their recent anthem “Bang Ya Head” [feat. Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit]. As a true standout, “Bang Ya Head” distills WARGASM’s controlled chaos into a focused and frenetic burst of energy. The track itself bounces between glitchy rave-ready electronics, gnashing teeth-gritting guitars, and quotable rhymes only to culminate on a lyrical volley between Milkie Way and Fred. He urges, “Keep banging your head until you’re breaking your neck.” Milkie counters with a nod to Bizkit’s classic “My Generation” with the warning, “You’re in the jungle punk!” After the band opened for Limp Bizkit last year on their 2022 tour, they teamed up on the soon-to-be-iconic track.
It followed the single “Do It So Good.” The latter has already piled up half-a-million total streams and counting in addition to earning critical acclaim. Beyond plugs from the likes of UPSET and more, Revolver summed it up succinctly as “fiery.” Right out of the gate, Louder named it one of “the best alt. rock songs you’ll hear this week,” and proclaimed, “Rowdy and ferocious, ‘Do It So Good’ sees the fast-rising alt rock duo bring the rave to the mosh pit as they fuse together The Prodigy’s anarchic sound with a lethal metal edge.” The music video for the track equally matched the intensity as it sees Milkie Way and Sam Matlock performing live and in a distorted glitch screen video tunnel. Check out the official music video for “Do It So Good” HERE.
After touring with Enter Shikari and Limp Bizkit at the end of last year (and into top of this year), Wargasm just supported Corey Taylor on his Us tour. They also performed at this year’s Louder Than Life Festival and Aftershock Festival. All this done in time to head back to the UK where they will be performing at their largest headline shows to date including Shepherds Bush Empire on December 16th and will then join BabyMetal on their European tour. Fans can check out the full list of dates below and at https://www.wargasm.online/tour-dates.
Last year, they unleashed EXPLICIT: THE MIXXXTAPE. It piled up 10 million-plus streams, earned raves from the likes of PAPER Magazine, Loudwire (who hailed it as one of their “Best New Debut Rock + Metal Albums of 2022) and Revolver Magazine who said “Wargasm don’t just have the nu-metal sound, they have the swagger.” Not to mention they have previously been featured on the covers of Alternative Press and KERRANG! Plus, they took home the first-ever “New Noise Award” at the 2022 KERRANG! Awards.
Venom Tracklist:
- Intro
- Venom
- Minigun
- Death Rattle
- Ride The Thunder
- Do It So Good
- Bang Ya Head ft. Fred Durst
- Feral Williams
- Sonic Dog Tag
- Modern Love
- S.A.D.
- Outrage
Wargasm Tour Dates:
November 8th 1865 Southampton, UK%
November 9th Rock City Nottingham, UK%
November 10th Ulster Sports Club Belfast, UK%
November 11th Opium Rooms Dublin, IE %
November 14th Sentrum Scene Oslo, IN#
November 15th Annexet Stockholm, SE#
November 16th Amager Bio Copenhagen, DK#
November 18th Sporthalle Hamburg, DE#
November 19th Verti Music Hall Berlin, DE#
November 21st Palladium Cologne, DE#
November 23rd Gasometer Vienna, AT#
November 24th Zenith Munich, DE#
November 25th La Laterie Strasbourg, FR#
December 1st Stadthalle Offenbach, DE#
December 3rd O13 Tilburg, NL#
December 4th Ancienne Belgique Brussels, BE#
December 6th L’Olympia Paris, FR#
December 7th Esch-zur-Alzette Luxembourge, LB#
December 8th Frabrique Milan, IT#
December 10th The Mill Birmingham, UK%
December 12th SWG3 Glasgow, UK%
December 13th O2 Ritz Manchester, UK%
December 14h SWX Bristol, UK%
December 15th O2 Shepherds Bush Empire London, UK%
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ABOUT WARGASM:
WARGASM are the climax of an orgy between heavy metal, electronic, rave, alternative, and industrial powered up by the friction of two gleefully insane creative insurgents Milkie Way and Sam Matlock. They honed a vital and visceral vision across early bangers such as “Spit.,” “Rage All Over,” “Salma Hayek,” and “Scratchcard Feeling,” paving the way for 2022’s EXPLICIT: THE MIXXXTAPE. Beyond reeling in over 10 million streams and counting, the latter incited the applause of PAPER Magazine, Revolver Magazine, and more as well as earning the endorsement of icons such as Jonathan Davis of Korn and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit who personally tapped the band to open a 2022 North American arena tour. They stand out the rare force of nature who could hold their own on tour with either YUNGBLUD or Corey Taylor of Slipknot. Plus, they’ve graced the covers of Alternative Press and KERRANG! in addition to garnering the first-ever “New Noise Award” at the 2022 KERRANG! Awards. However, everything simply set the stage for their 2023 full-length debut album, Venom. The duo deliver a shockingly catchy blast of horny and hypnotic heavy music as unpredictable as it is uncompromising. Its lineage can be traced to the big-screen genre mashing of the nineties, yet it’s spiked with a 21st century fury that could only belong to WARGASM. You’ve been warned by singles “Bang Ya Head” [feat. Fred Durst] and “Do It So Good.” Rock music won’t be the same, and thank FUCKING God for that.