Venom & Tears

Venom & Tears is the fifth album by the Orange County, California-based band, Throwdown. It was released on August 7, 2007. As an indication of the band's increasing visibility, the album was featured in Best Buy's weekly circular prior to its release. With this album, some fans note a movement in Throwdown's sound towards groove metal and away from their roots in hardcore.

As a gimmick, the album insert has two holes on the neck of the pictured female. The holes are in the place of the two fang wounds in the picture at right.

Americana was released with a cover of Crowbar's "Planets Collide" as a Digital EP exclusive to iTunes prior to the albums release.

Holy Roller was released as the first single from the album.

I, Suicide appears on the Soundtrack to the film Resident Evil: Extinction.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Dave Peters, all music composed by Throwdown.

1. "Holy Roller" – 4:48
2. "Day of the Dog" – 5:07
3. "S.C.U.M." – 3:21
4. "Americana" – 4:33
5. "Weight of the World" – 2:46
6. "Cancer" – 2:03
7. "Hellbent (On War)" – 2:39
8. "No Love" – 4:31
9. "Venom & Tears" – 5:03
10. "I'll Never Die a Poisoned Death" – 4:29
11. "I, Suicide" – 3:37
12. "Godspeed" – 5:58
13. "Leave a Message" – 12:18
14. "Propaganda" – 3:35

Trivia

• The track "Leave a Message" is about some phone messages of Dave made on 2005 and 2006.
• Track 14 is a Sepultura cover, only available on the Japanese, European, Australian, New Zealand and iTunes editions.^[1]

Personnel

• Dave Peters – vocals
• Mark Choiniere – guitar
• Ryan Clark – design
• Ben Dussault – drums
• Al Fujisaki – engineer, mixing
• Josh Grabelle – A&R
• Jeff Gros – photography
• Matt Mentley – bass
• Jim Miner – tattoo art
• Dave Schultz – mastering

References