Welcome To Hell [Remastered] - Venom

Welcome to Hell- Venom ============= Venom is regarded as the fathers to black metal; when in reality they were a New Wave of Heavy Metal band with black metal 'imagery'; any metal band today, you can trace it back to its origins: Venom. That is how much Venom in its early days influenced the entire metal world. The three main bands at the time- Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and Motorhead was doing their music and Venom just blew them away in terms ...
...bands to come along later. All bands afterwards (in death, thrash and black metal) took its raw intensity and aggressiveness influence from Venom and put their own creativeness to shape the two metal genres today: thrash and black metal. Now; the album. It is where the term black metal was taken and created an entire new genre of metal: Black metal. That is all Venom is responsible for; for the term of the genre, not the sound. This debut album, ...

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Welcome to Hell is a superb debut album by Venom. Released in January 1981 on Neat Records, it brought a whole new meaning to heavy metal as this Newcastle NWOBHM band produced the hardest album with the darkest material to date at that time. Even now, it doesn't sound tame and still comes across as hard albeit incredibly raw. The producing is poor and the musicians are quite sloppy at times but this just adds to the devil spawn that is Welcome ...
...first Black Metal album (although the band's 2nd album coined the term) but where it betters later albums is that it has catchy punk elements to the music and lyrics worthy of Motorhead when they are on top form. Despite the dubious musicianship on the album, the riffs and choruses in particular are so catchy that they are very memorable and easy to sing along to.. "Welcome to Hell", "Schizoid" and the chanting type track "In League with Satan" ...

dangaroo 24.11.2008 · Read full review
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