Frenzy’s “Lethal Protector”: The Best Song About the Venom Symbiote You’ve Heard All Day

Growing up, my favorite comic book character was Venom, Spider-Man’s vicious doppelgänger (not to be confused with THE Doppelgänger). Venom was Eddie Brock, a confused Catholic disgraced by Spider-Man who bonded with an alien symbiote made of liquid shadow who once acted as Spidey’s black costume. As the character’s popularity grew, he got his own series as the “lethal protector” of San Francisco, where he broke from the traditional super-hero mold by happily killing criminals who would threaten the innocent. And there was something about that duplicitous good-natured monster with religious guilt that I adored as a kid.

So while “Lethal Protector,” the new track by power metallers Frenzy, is a pretty ‘meh’ song, I can’t help but love it, because it’s about Venom. And I’m not hearing Venom in it or interpreting it as a track about Venom, it’s a song about Venom, the character. As you can see in the video below, the lyrics reference Spider-Man discovering the symbiote during the Secret Wars befopre abandoning it when he finds out it bonds for life, and the alien’s joining with Brock when it finds an equally-bitter foe of the web-slinger. And I’m sorry, no matter how grown up or serious I get, hearing my favorite comic book character lauded in metal form will forever make me smile like an idiot.

Enjoy “Lethal Protector,” and if you’re a big nerd like me, enjoy spending the rest of the day mumbling about eating brains in the first-person plural.