Venison was born Adolphus Veiney in Austria. His mother had been an opera singer in Prague and cultivate her son’s voice from infancy. At age eight, after only one audition, he was accepted into the Austrian Boys’ Choir to sing soprano. But fate had other ideas...

A year later, he wandered into the woods near his house and encountered a reindeer. The beast tore the lad’s tongue out of his head, for no apparent reason. It was unclear whether he would recover, but after several months, he did. Unable to speak, he became obsessed with learning the drums and came to be known around his village as “Venison.”

It wasn’t long before LESION would come through town. “At first I thought he was some sort of idiot,” recalls Dr. Hurtz. “But then I realized he was a mute. He was trying to tell us that he wanted an audition. Piss felt sorry for him, so we said okay. Ten minutes later, he had the job.”

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