Venom
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Biography
Venom is a major influence on extreme metal, their 1982 album Black Metal even giving its name to a sub-genre. Despite this, Venom is considered by some to be a limited band, if not worse. Since their debut in 1979, these emulators of Motörhead and Iron Maiden have given way to Satanist overkill and a music that is above all worth its weight in aggression. The albums Welcome to Hell (1981) and At War with Satan (1983), together with Black Metal, form the trilogy of Venom's best albums. The band then lost its way and was largely surpassed by those it had inspired, such as Metallica and Megadeth. Subsequent albums Temples of Ice (1991), The Waste Lands (1992) and Metal Black (2006) are to be salvaged from an uneven discography, to say the least. With only one original member left, the trio released Fallen Angel in 2011, their thirteenth studio opus, followed four years later by From the Very Depths. While former members formed the breakaway entity Venom Inc. in 2017, the veteran band led since 1978 by Conrad Lant (bass, vocals) added Storm the Gates to its discography.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Dead of the Night
- Medley - Teacher's Pet/ Poison/ Teacher's Pet (Reprise)
- God '18
- Harmony Dies
- Nothing Else Matters featuring Venom
- All Devils Eve
- Where's Dock Green
- 018's Finest featuring Venom
- Hell Bent for Leather
- Speed King
- Clarisse
- Playtime
- Faerie Tale
- Temples of Ice
- Rip Ride
- Manitou
- Cry Wolf
- Women, Leather and Hell
- Stand Up (And Be Counted)
- Aaaaaarrghh
- Woman
- Senile Decay
- Cronos
- Element
