Venom
Venom are an English heavy metal band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), Venom's first two albums, Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982), are considered major influences on black metal, thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Their second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of the black metal genre; as a result, Venom were part of the first wave of the genre, along with Mercyful Fate and Bathory.
Genre: metal, black-metal, death-metal, nwobhm, speed-metal, old-school-thrash, thrash-metal, black-thrash, british-black-metal
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Top Tracks
- Dark Night (Of The Soul)
- Bring Out Your Dead
- Notorious
- 100 Miles To Hell
- I Dark Lord
- Beaten To A Pulp
- Red Light Fever (Demo)
- Storm The Gates
- Over My Dead Body
- Destroyer
- Immortal
- Suffering Dictates
- The Mighty Have Fallen
- We The Loud
- Black Metal - Live, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 8 October 1985
- Countess Bathory - Live, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 8 October 1985
- Sons of Satan (1980 Impulse Studios - £50 Demo Recordings) (2019 - Remaster)
- Witching Hour - Live, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 8 October 1985
- Welcome To Hell - Live, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 8 October 1985
- Seven Gates Of Hell - Live, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 8 October 1985
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