Autre Discusses Venera With Venera

Visit Autre for an illuminative interview with Venera, whose stunning LP Exinifinite is at radio now from PAN. In its intro, the site explains the origin of the duo’s name and how it relates to their sound: “From the 1960s through the 1980s, the Soviets launched a fleet of probes toward Venus in what became the legendary Venera program—it was the first time human-made machines captured and returned images and sounds from another planet. What they revealed was staggering: a furnace-world of sulphuric skies, crushing pressure, and an atmosphere as brutal as it is apocalyptic. Drawing from that legacy, the experimental duo Venera—Korn guitarist and co-founder James “Munky” Shaffer and filmmaker/composer Chris Hunt—conjure a synth-driven cosmos just as mysterious and merciless. Their music is a psychological hymn to interplanetary Venusian travel, a soundtrack for drifting through toxic mists and colliding with the planet’s hostile refusal of organic life.”

Read the interview here and get the album – which features vocals from Chelsea Wolfe, FKA twigs, and Dis Figg, on the air now.