During the winter of 2022, Chris Hunt (filmmaker / composer) and James 'Munky' Shaffer (Korn) approached EFFIXX to create the visuals to their nine-track debut album to be released via Ipecac Recordings — a long-running institution for experimental heavy music founded by legendary, prolific weirdo Mike Patton. Featuring notable guest appearances by HEALTH, Vowws, Deantoni Parks, and Alain Johannes, the album's thick atmosphere of bleak, dissonant texture had all the sonic attributes that inspire us most around the studio.

In its' early stages, VENERA (which translates to "Venus" in Russian) launched without sharing the identites of the artists involved. The release campaign started with a series of esoteric teasers, sharing glimpses of the project's sonic landscape and visual aesthetic.  

Subsequently, a visual for each track on the album was released. Ranging from ambient, textural vignettes to full CG narratives with character animation, the visual experience explored bleak, liminal worlds threaded together with a meta-fictional manifesto.