Described as “a shredding collection featuring an army of guitars” in a Flightless newsletter, “Venusian 1” opens the second side of Infest the Rats’ Nest with a bang. In an interview with New Noise Magazine, Stu said “It’s kind of about a handful of rogue earthlings, I guess you would call them, who are trying to escape from this planet that is dying — or this planet that is being killed, I suppose — and they can’t go to Mars, because they don’t have enough money to get in, so they go rogue and build a spaceship and send it to Venus and try to colonize and they’re not very successful there either.”
“Venusian 1” is the first part of a three-song suite which builds on the album’s first side. As Earth becomes more and more uninhabitable, a group of humans realize that the only way to live on is to travel into space. They set off towards the second planet from the sun, Venus, on two spaceships of junk called the Venusian 1 and Venusian 2. There may not be a Planet B, but there is a Planet V.