Noise, noise, noise, but good noise sometimes.

I was going to say the same thing this guy said before...

When it goes to music, Venom is not the band to talk about, but Welcome to hell is such an influential album. This and Black metal are easily Venoms best albums

Legendary debut! As goood as Black metal. Raw and extremely heavy for that time.

I prefer modern bands who know how to write more than one song but having fun is important too I guess.

Venom's Black Metal is the only release I can listen to from start to finish. Regardless of what everyone here will think, I think that's a really good and FUN album.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 18.02.2014 at 05:04

Venom's Black Metal is the only release I can listen to from start to finish. Regardless of what everyone here will think, I think that's a really good and FUN album.

I can't even get through Black Metal without getting bored. I usually just listen to Buried Alive and go listen to something else.

Black Metal and Countess Bathory are pretty much the only good songs on that album, and this album has even less in the way of redeemable songs.

Written by deadone on 18.02.2014 at 06:58

Venom is quite an acquired taste - it's raw, punky and completely juvenile.

That's like saying Cannibal Corpse or AC/DC are an acquired taste. You only need to listen once, as with most bands or albums, to get a band like Venom.

There's a difference between being simple and just being utterly repetitive.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 18.02.2014 at 05:04

Venom's Black Metal is the only release I can listen to from start to finish. Regardless of what everyone here will think, I think that's a really good and FUN album.

That is very true. It not about being brutal, atmospheric, or technical in my opinion; it is great album that is there to have a good time. I don't really feel there is much to analyze on the album and I like it because no matter what kind of day I'm having I feel extremely happy when I listen to this album.

It's amazing how this is considered to be the first black metal album just because it's so badly produced. It's really just hard rock at it's most banal.

Written by Ganondox on 03.10.2021 at 08:00

It's amazing how this is considered to be the first black metal album just because it's so badly produced. It's really just hard rock at it's most banal.

To be fair most "first genre metal" aren't 'genre' at all, it's just ppl hearing too much so that they can praise their favorite old band for being influential

Truth be told this is vastly superior than 80% of modern american Black Metal bands.

And Hard Rock? Lol yeah whatever.

Written by Maco on 04.10.2021 at 02:57

And Hard Rock? Lol yeah whatever.

Yeah. Like how Motorhead is hard rock, and this is just a ripoff of Motorhead. In that light, Cold Lake was just Celtic Frost returning black metal to it's roots.

Sounds like shit but it's got energy at least. Really the only thing Venom contributed to the creation of black metal was the iconography and the term itself.

It's average. Nothing special nowadays, but I can of course see how it was influential at the time for bands like Slayer. This is probably the origin of thrash and the first wave of black metal.

Some of the better songs here are the title track (with some interesting backing vocals and a catchy main riff), the short instrumental "Mayhem with Mercy", the catchy "Live like an Angel (Die like a Devil)", and "One Thousand Days in Sodom" (which contains the best bass playing and soloing on the album!)

Average. I enjoyed some parts but mainly noise for me

It's not a great album overall but still contains a few bangers. I'd say it's one of those bands that was perhaps more influential than they were actually known for being good, certainly frowned upon back then for their Satanic lyrics and image, which now just makes them look run-of-the-mill.