Venom & Tears

Venom & Tears is the fifth studio album by American metal band Throwdown, released on August 7, 2007. The album was featured in Best Buy's weekly circular prior to its release. The track "Holy Roller" was released as a single.

Venom & Tears
Studio album by Throwdown
Released	August 7, 2007[1]
Recorded	April–May 2007
Genre	Groove metal[2]
Length	61:14
Label	Trustkill
Producer	Mudrock
Throwdown chronology
Vendetta (2005) Venom & Tears (2007) Deathless (2009)
Singles from Venom & Tears
"Holy Roller" Released: December 4, 2007

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Punknews.org	[3]
Live-metal.net	[4]
Lordsofmetal.nl	[5]

The album insert has two holes on the neck of the pictured female in the place of the two fang wounds on the album cover.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Dave Peters and 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 (instrumental)
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. "Propaganda" – 3:35

• Track 13 is a Sepultura cover, only available on the Japanese, European, Australian, New Zealand and iTunes editions.^[6]

Track appearances

• "Americana" was released with a cover of Crowbar's "Planets Collide" as a digital EP exclusive to iTunes prior to the album's release.
• "I, Suicide" appears on the soundtrack to the film Resident Evil: Extinction.

Personnel

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

References

1. "Throwdown post preview of upcoming album". altpress.com. July 18, 2007. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
2. Barrett, Tyler. "Throwdown - Venom & Tears". punknews.org. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
3. "Throwdown: Venom & Tears (2007)". Punknews.org. August 17, 2007. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
4. Maki, Jeff. "THROWDOWN 'Venom and Tears' (Trustkill)". live-metal.net. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
5. "Throwdown - Venom & Tears". lordsofmetal.nl. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
6. fist2face.com.au. "Venom and Tears Australian release". Retrieved November 11, 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)