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3 дек 2024
TONY DOLAN Says The Door Is Open For JEFF 'MANTAS' DUNN To One Day Come Back To VENOM INC.: 'He's My Brother'
Tony continued: "If [Jeff] goes, he wants to go on his own in his own slippers. He doesn't wanna be running through an airport somewhere across the other side of the planet. And I totally get that. We're all human. So the idea was to just, 'Take your time. You just take all the time you need. I'll continue with the [VENOM INC.] obligations.' Because when you do a band on this level, you get money from your record label in advance and from your publisher in advance, and they want that money back. And the way you make it back these days is by touring to push the music which sells to pay them back their money. So even if I decided, 'Oh, well, fuck it. I'll not do it either,' we'd be leaving a bit of debt that these people might want back. So I would continue. Fortunately, I used Curran Murphy from 72 LEGIONS, who was happy to come in and dep until Mantas got back fit, so we could do the shores that Mike Hickey wasn't able to come out of America for personal reasons. So, that was it. We were set to do that. And we've never hidden the fact that we've got the door open for Jeff because he's my brother. And we've been through so much together. But I wasn't prepared to try and put him in a headlock or to try and force him into a corner where he had to make a decision because he's sick and he had to take his own time to make his own decision."
Addressing Dunn's social media post in which the guitarist announced his exit from VENOM INC., Dolan said: "I know that yesterday was quite shocking — he made this statement, and everybody's picked up on that — but it may not be forever. He may feel, in a year's time, he feels great and wants to do it again. He will produce music in his studio because that's what he does. And that's his therapy and that's great. And his social media he was doing, that was his therapy. So that was all good. When he stopped doing that, I thought maybe that's not the best thing to do. And as much as, in my heart, I would like him to still be doing the tour and the shows, even through the whole season, we did Indonesia, we did all of South America, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Romania, Poland — I mean, we did huge shows, half a million people in Poland, 18,000 in Indonesia; I mean, it's huge shows; every night in South America, I think it was three to six thousand people. So we did these incredible things and I wanted him to be there. But you have to feel good about it. And he didn't feel good about it. So he had to sit it out and I had to accept that."
Dunn formed VENOM INC. nearly a decade ago with two other former VENOM members, Dolan and drummer Antony "Abaddon" Bray.
In his announcement that he was leaving VENOM INC., Dunn said that his "health and wellbeing are of paramount importance to myself and my family," but added that "there are also more personal issues which have influenced my decision."
This past May, Dunn revealed that he had suffered another heart attack on the morning of April 17. Despite this frightening event, the swift response from medical professionals at Abrantes UCIC and later in Lisbon ensured he received the necessary care promptly. An angiogram revealed issues with two valves, leading to the immediate placement of two stents.
The 63-year-old British-born musician, who currently resides with his wife in Portugal, previously suffered a heart attack and underwent a double bypass surgery in May 2018.
Mantas sat out VENOM INC.'s fall 2023 U.S. tour after revealing that his wife had been diagnosed with cancer. He was replaced on the trek by Hickey, known for his work with VENOM, CARCASS, CATHEDRAL and CRONOS.
Earlier this year, VENOM INC. recruited Marc "JXN" Jackson as the band's new drummer. Jackson was previously a member of M:PIRE OF EVIL, the group formed in 2010 by Dunn and Dolan.
VENOM INC. is not to be confused with the Conrad "Cronos" Lant-fronted version of VENOM, which is continuing to tour and make albums under the VENOM moniker. Joining Cronos in that group are Rage (a.k.a. Stuart Dixon) on guitar and Danté (a.k.a. Danny Needham) on drums.
VENOM's classic lineup trio of Dunn, Lant and drummer Anthony "Abaddon" Bray recorded four studio LPs, "Welcome To Hell" (1981),"Black Metal" (1982),"At War With Satan" (1984) and "Possessed" (1985),and live album, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" (1986). Often cited by bands such as METALLICA, BEHEMOTH, CELTIC FROST and MAYHEM as major influences, they are one of the most revered bands of their generation. VENOM is still fronted by Cronos and headlines festivals all over the globe and continues to release new music while Dunn and Dolan had joined forces in the similarly named VENOM INC.
Photo credit: Fernando Serani (courtesy of Nuclear Blast)
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