Texas occult metal band VENOMOUS MAXIMUS have inked a deal with Napalm Records. The label will release the band's Beg Upon The Light album in Europe this summer.

Sebastian Muench A&R; Napalm Records states: "Sometimes, very seldom, you get the chance to discover a band that brings back the same feelings you first had when you listened as a teenager for the first time to METALLICA's Ride The Lightning or BLACK SABBATH's Paranoid. You just know, you've found something very magically and you are hooked for life. Venomous Maximus is such a band and and we are thrilled, excited and tremendously honored to call them part of the Napalm family."

Venomous Maximus vocalist/guitarist Gregg Higgins comments: "We are pleased to announce that we've signed with Napalm Records. They are going to release, Beg Upon The Light this summer and another new full-length we are working on in 2014. All of this comes to a surprise, because this project was meant to be something that no one would ever hear about. So as time went on and we started to be successful, we always agreed to do everything our selves. To keep it our way. The only way we were ever going to work with anyone was if we knew they were dedicated to worship the past as we were. Now that we are here with Napalm, we will continue to create this hidden message. But with their help they will be revealing this to the masses and we are ok with that now. Because of the records we first created only for ourselves will be released with everything we dreamed from the beginning. Destiny has come for us to work with Napalm Records. Our hearts are in Texas but our souls come from Europe. Now having a family in Europe that takes care of the land where we arised, our spirits fly, where we are able to focus on the beautiful."

Beg Upon The Light is available in North America via Occulture Records. The group recorded at Origin Sound in Houston with a head space described as "somewhere between a Alejandro Jodorowsky film and a New Orleans voodoo den."

Beg Upon the Light's striking cover art was designed by artist Dann Miller and builds on the band's ever-evolving thematic that involves, among other things, magic, alchemy, extra-sensory perception and astrology; wide-eyed themes that lay "on the outermost fringe of accepted forms of knowledge and discourse."

Beg Upon the Light tracklisting:

'Funeral Queen'

'Path Of Doom'

'Give Up The Witch'

'Father Time'

'Dream Again (Hellenbach)'

'Moonchild'

'Battle for the Cross'

'Venomous Maximus'

'Mothers Milk'

'Hell's Heroes'

The band's video for 'Path Of Doom' can be seen below:

Venomous Maximus is:

Gregg Higgins (vocals, guitar)

Christian Larson (guitar)

Trevi Biles (bass)

Bongo (drums)

For more on Venomous Maximus, visit the band's Facebook page.