VENOM-WELCOME TO HELL-1981 PICTURE DISC L.P. EX

	£		32
	$		42

This is an auction for the

ORIGINAL 1981 PICTURE DISC ALBUM

by

>>>>>> "VENOM" <<<<<<

Titled

>>>>>> "WELCOME TO HELL" <<<<<<

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Recorded on the NEAT RECORD LABEL NO:NEAT 1002LP

Dated 1981

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The Picture Disc is in EX CONDITION

Comes in Polythene Sleeve

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The Track List is as Follows

SIDE 1

Sons Of Saton

Welcome To Hell

Schizo

Mayhem With Mercy

Live Like An Angel (Die Like A Devil)

SIDE 2

Witching Hour

One Thousand Days In Sodom

Angel Dust

In League With Satan

Red Light Fever

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Venom are an English extreme metal band, formed in late 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Considered a seminal influence for thrash and coming to prominence towards the end of the 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal', Venom have found little mainstream success or critical acclaim, but are widely regarded as highly influential, particularly for their first two albums, Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982). The title of Venom's second album would become influential and definitive enough to describe an entire subgenre called black metal, a category under which the band is most commonly referred. The nature of Venom's high-pitch guitars, harsh vocals, use of pseudonyms, and unrelenting emphasis on Satanic lyrics and imagery is considered the template for the subgenre's later successes, and arguably for the broader extreme metal movement in general.

Welcome to Hell is the debut album by the English heavy metal band Venom, released in December 1981. Welcome to Hell is often described as speed metal, but it had a great influence on the then-emerging thrash metal style, and crystallized the elements of what later became known as death metal and black metal.

The sound of the album is very noisy and rough, perhaps in part because the band thought they were recording a demo when they recorded the album over a period of only three days. Geoff Barton stated in his 1981 five-star review of Welcome to Hell that the album had "the hi-fi dynamics of a 50-year-old pizza" and it "brought a new meaning to the word 'cataclysmic'". However, those comments compared it to other heavy metal from the early eighties.

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Venom almost defy description. A cornerstone of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, but also considered to be a first-generation black metal band, this trio of rowdy Geordies exploded on to the music scene in the early 1980s -- and the word 'exploded' is used advisedly, bearing in mind their love of extravagant pyrotechnics at their stage shows, which they insisted on headlining.

Revered by the 80s rock touchstone Sounds, worshipped across southern Europe (Hellenic fans being especially devoted, I've always found), Venom's technical abilities were stretched to their very limits with each successive release, but this endeared them to their audience as every proto-headbanger imagined themselves playing along to Mantas' screeching guitar lines. High energy, low pretence, classic heavy metal. When the early Motorhead-esque 'Sons of Satan' erupts from your speakers, the mayhem Venom created is evident from the very start and will continue to rattle your cranium until the end of the album, believe me. I'll refrain from calling this album a 'timeless work of genius', but I certainly won't refrain from exhorting you to buy it forthwith!

Reviewer:remarx1968

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Nasty rock anthems with riffs to die for, what a record. Every song a scorcher, a metal classic! 21 Years after its original release "Welcome to Hell" still kicks ass.

Reviewer:A Customer

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