PRIMEVIL / ex-VENOM frontman Tony Dolan is featured in a new interview with Metality.net. An excerpt is available below.

Q: First of all, what inspired the formation of PrimEvil? Venom fans will know that Prime Evil is the first album with your involvement. How would you describe the sound of PrimEvil as opposed to the sound of Venom?

Tony: "Well, I think it came about as Mantas and Antton who were both doing separate music projects (DRYLL and DEF CON ONE) came together in Dryll. Mantas needed a drummer and Antton offered his services, people kept wondering what it would be like if Mantas and Antton played with me and it was kind of 'Oh yeah, that would be fun, perhaps' but then Dryll played a show and performed the Venom track 'Black Metal' and that was kind of it. People started saying I had to come in and play too, see what happened. So, I got a phone call and had a few chats with Mantas and that was that; we decided we’d see if it worked. It does, very well, but then again myself and Mantas have always been friends and played well together. The addition of a drummer as good as Antton was something too cool to pass up! The name we decided should be chosen by the fans who wanted this to happen. The first Venom album I did was Prime Evil in 1989 and that was the name the fans chose for this band. PrimEvil is old school I guess, melodic, heavy, powerful, different from Venom? Not sure. We will inevitably be compared as we are all ex-Venom and of course Mantas was the main songwriter for Venom so... but I feel we are more like classic metal. MOTÖRHEAD, BLACK SABBATH, JUDAS PRIEST and Venom."

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PrimEvil recently updated their MySpace player to stream four new songs - 'Wake Up Dead', 'The 8th Gate', 'Hellspawn' and 'Hell To The Holy'. Listen to the tracks in full at this location.

The band have been working on material for their debut album, tentatively due in 2011.

Primevil recently confirmed their first live date. The band will perform on March 12th, 2011 at Germany's Metal Forces Festival. Further festival details to follow.