Following his exit from Venom Inc., it looks as if Jeff ‘Mantas’ Dunn has no love misplaced for his former bandmate, bassist and vocalist Tony Dolan. At 63 years outdated and having suffered a second coronary heart assault just a few months previous to his departure from the band, it appeared like there was loads of purpose for him to hold it up and stay the remainder of his life along with his spouse in Portugal. However because it seems, there was an obvious lack of care that pissed Dunn off.
Particulars about his now non-existent relationship with Dolan got here out throughout an look on The Tampa Morgue podcast (as transcribed by Blabbermouth).
“Properly, I can let you know now that the final fucking dialog that I had with [Tony] Dolan [Venom Inc. bassist/vocalist] was March the twenty sixth. That was practically a month earlier than I had the [second] coronary heart assault. I didn’t obtain one single cellphone name after that. I acquired the occasional textual content saying, ‘How are you doing?’ however he by no means referred to as me. And you understand what it’s? I used to be in a nasty manner after that coronary heart assault, after the second. Mentally I used to be worse than the primary one. I didn’t come into [my] studio for months. Once I got here in, my guitars had been, there was rust throughout them. I needed to restore all the things.
“On that March the twenty sixth dialog, we mentioned me returning [to Venom Inc.] only for the festivals. And I mentioned, ‘Look, I can do in all probability do two weeks or one thing like that,’ however even then that was getting a stretch as a result of [my wife], she had been misdiagnosed with most cancers and that went on for fucking months. That destroyed us… No person is aware of what we had went by means of there. After which, clearly, I had the fucking second coronary heart assault.”
That sounds fairly shitty, having somebody you thought was in your aspect and your buddy probably not taking the time to examine on you after a serious well being scare. That’s completely cheap. He mentioned in the end he wanted numerous medical procedures, together with the set up of two stents, and the weeks-long restoration course of that follows.
However wait. Dunn mentioned there was much more.
“[Dolan and I] had that dialog on March the twenty sixth, after which there was nothing after that. I didn’t get a cellphone name. And like I say, I used to be in a fucking dangerous manner. And possibly, simply possibly, all I needed to do was pour my coronary heart out to my finest buddy. And I by no means acquired that fucking alternative, so far as I’m involved.
“All this fucking proclaiming he’s my finest buddy, he’s my brother, the door’s at all times open [for me to come back to Venom Inc.]. After which I see a personal message between him and an individual that I do know as effectively, ‘Oh, Mantas’s simply stabbed me within the again.’
“Are you able to assist me perceive that, how I stabbed you within the again? What? By having two coronary heart assaults and fucking the plans up for touring? I’m so fucking sorry.
“This actually has fucking angered me — actually fucking angered me. And if anyone thinks I’m gonna sit again now at my age and simply take all that and watch what’s occurring — no. Open your mouth as soon as extra and the fucking world’s coming down in your shoulders. I’ve simply had sufficient. I’ve had sufficient.”
Finally, Dunn mentioned he made the choice to announce his exit from Venom Inc. after the band introduced that it was booked to headline the Byker Grave pageant in Newcastle.
“My thought was gonna be, ‘Okay then. I’ll fly to Newcastle. I can see my daughter, I can see my grandkids, I can see a couple of mates. I’ll play the present, and on that present, on the finish of it, I’ll say, ‘Thanks, Newcastle. That is the place it began and for me, that is the place it ends. I now hand the reins over. And fucking I can’t do anymore, however thanks a lot for 40-odd, unbelievable fucking years.’ Subsequent factor I knew, they’re selling the present. All proper. Okay. So, I made a decision, ‘That’s it.’ I make the assertion. I go away [Venom Inc. in early December]. After which per week later, effectively, after that, there’s all these fucking interviews [with Dolan that] simply go straight up, like, injury limitation — that’s what I name them; [they’re] not fucking interviews. After which I put [my solo song] ‘Dropping My Religion’, the primary clip of the video up, that night time when that video went off, he unfriended and blocked me on fucking all the things — and [my wife], and her daughter. And that’s the reality. Now please assist me perceive why. Let me know why.
“So long as I’ve breath left in me on this planet, I’ll by no means converse to him once more. By no means. As a result of as a lot as I cherished that man, and I did, I cherished that man like a fucking brother, I actually cherished that man. After which this — okay, you assume you’re Venom? Go on the market and fucking do it. And I mentioned in a press release the opposite night time, go and play at each area that you simply need to, or you possibly can go play each fucking bathroom that you simply need to. I don’t care. Go away me out of it. I’m accomplished. I’m fucking accomplished with it.”