In the first week of album promo concert at Bandung Berisik, a local metal venue, about 1,000 compact disks were sold.
[5] It was listed third after Satu Untuk Berbagi and Jemima as the best studio album release for 2011 by Rolling Stone Indonesia.
[6] In an interview, Eben explains to Mahardhika Utama of Formagz, an Indonesian online music magazine, the reason behind the chosen name:[7] ...So, our main target is not being number one Indonesian metal band, but we just wanna be the most dangerous metal band in Indonesia, that's why we named our latest album Venomous!.In the same time Vicky explained about musical style and influences: Whatever that we listen to this album.
Brian Fischer Giffin of "LoudMag", an Australian online music magazine stated that:[8] Venomous isn't reinventing the wheel and is not the most original album you'll ever hear – they wear their influences prominently – but at the same time it is also something right out of the box.
Ordinarily I would suggest that any band trying a mix of early Sepultura-style thrash, Morbid Angel, commercial metalcore and dashes of electronica would be doomed to fail, but not these guys.