Venom rocks me all the way to hell

Still, Venom are fucking ace. If not for AT WAR WITH SATAN (and specifically "Rip Ride") I might've gone all Columbine back in high school. I also quite liked Mantas's (or was it Abbadon's?) live reading of Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" on the live Canadian e.p.

I o\/\/ j0r s0ul and th4t ov \/3|\|0|\/|!!!!!

|\/|0+0RH3AD ROCK 100x HARDER THAN THOSE L@MERZ VENOM!!!!

|\/|Y H0RDE 0V |\/|!|\|!0|\|z AWA!+ J0R SKR3AM!NG S0UL W/SKARY !MPL3MEN+S 0V T0RTuR3. JEAH#@!!!! PH34R!!!!!

"Lay down your soul to the Gods' rock and roll!"

Proof of Alex in NYC's continued love, as just posted on the thread about his daughter:

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-05-19%2013.01.35%20-0700/Image-F143CB0CA9CE11D8.jpg

I must share with you this marvellous Amazon review of their 2006 album, 'Metal Black':

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
COMEBACK ALBUM OF THE DECADE, July 2, 2006
By old school alice fan "Matt" (Vancouver BC Canada)

This album will blow your head clean off. Oh sure, you have wimp friends who say, "Oh, VENOM can't play, they can't sing." That's because your friends are a bunch of idiots who have neither brains nor taste. They do what they are told, and they listen to what they're told. They are sheep. They own Nine Inch Nails albums. Why do you hang out with such losers? Discard them. Threaten them if they call or try to come over. Then... Do yourself a huge favor by educating yourself about rockn'roll. Discover that only rarely bands come along that influence and in effect jumpstart entire forms and genres of popular music. Like Buddy Holly. Elvis. Arlo Guthrie. The Beatles. The Mamas and Papas. The Doors. Alice Cooper. Kiss. Nirvana. VENOM. Yes, VENOM. This unholy trinity trio from Jolly Old didn't just jumpstart the whole 80's. 90's, and beyond for hardcore death black noise thrash speed metal, they rammed a trident straight up the gulliver of the mainstream and we have been wallowing in a myriad of awesome heavy thrash in the decades thus ever since. VENOM did it all first. They are the godfathers of anything you're probably listening to now and never got the respect they deserve. Cronos rules. Cronos is God. That voice. The charisma. The talent. The presence. The lyrics. Nothing can touch VENOM when they are at their best. Nothing. And this album is VENOM AT THEIR BEST. This album kills. This album is everything great about WELCOME TO HELL, AT WAR WITH SATAN, POSSESSED, CALM BEFORE THE STORM, CAST IN STONE, and RESURRECTION all rolled into one killer, I mean, one FREAKIN killer album that you won't believe. Mike Hickey has recorded, along with Count Cronos himself, of course, the deadliest licks this side of Hades. His solos will astound you. What a great guitarist. A few listens, and the riffs will effen haunt you. They are that brilliant. And Count Cronos, the Vampire Supreme Himself, By Holy Order of the Satanic Majesties Request, what can I say. On his shoulders rests the responsibility of creating the greatest of all subgenres of music, BLACK METAL. ASSASSIN will ring in your ears over and over and over. ANTICHRIST is one of the greatest songs ever written, never mind one of the best VENOM ever written. REGE SATANAS should be #1 on the Billboard Charts. HOUSE OF PAIN will have you wanting to destroy everything you see without knowing why. DARKEST REALM is probably Western Civilization's greatest cultural achievement since AT WAR WITH SATAN. MALEFICARUM will make you do anything, even sell your grandmother to gypsy slave traders, just for the pleasure of hearing it again. And again. When you hear Count Cronos cry, "Maleficaruuuuuuuuuuuuummmmm" you'll understand. It is paradise. Unbound. Rise. Fall. Into Hell. Maleficaruuuuummmmm...... This album rules. This band rules. Cronos rules all. Listening to this album will make you feel like a forty foot tall rampaging gorilla made of steel and Jack Daniels with the self confidence of Godzilla. You will conquer anything with VENOM in your stereo. Tell your wimp friends to listen to some real metal... V E N O...freakin' M Thank you dark lords for granting Cronos a miraculous recovery to release this gem. This is one of the greatest albums of all time. I have spoken. I'm gonna listen to it again right now. "I bear the soul of Satan, I wear the seal of Death...ANTECHRIST!" If you don't know who VENOM is or don't think VENOM is the greatest band of all time, then you are a cultureless and clueless idiot. We feel sorry for you. Why do you live? VENOM RULES.

haha, "why do you live?"

The review itself attracts this equally excellent comment from another Amazonian:

DoctorBass says:
"Matt," I love the flesh-shredding brutality of your review! You pulverize the clueless with the kind of ruthlessness that would make VENOM most proud. What a crushing, articulate condemnation of those who dare blaspheme the Dark Lord's court musicians. Damn, you are clearly not just a death and black metal mega-lover: You are a bona-fide Luciferian. I never thought I'd meet a real one here @ Amazon.com! This makes me quite happy. Keep the evil in top form. You know how.

I think I will buy this album.

50 Used & new from $2.99!

you're wild man! wild!

It really does make me want to hear the record. And I don't like Venom.

Their first album has the highest pulls-to-plays ratio in my collection.

If not for AT WAR WITH SATAN (and specifically "Rip Ride") I might've gone all Columbine back in high school

That was remarkably tasteless of me. ugh.

if anyone has not yet heard the Venom answerphone messages tape should visit the link (starts at 2:00)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRVPFvwi_e8&feature=related

hilarious! especially as Venom saw fit to release them officially..

those are great! i'm trying to find them for download, but no luck

Venom fucking rules

BULLDOZER BASS

there is no better sounding metal record from the 80s than welcome to hell.

REIGN IN BLOOD? REIN IN THE BASSPLAYER MORE LIKE.

REVIVE IN THE NAME OF SATAN

Let the fervent Venom praise rain down like a plague of locusts!

BLACK METAAAAAAAAAAAAL
BLACK METAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL

black fucking metal

LAY DOWN YOUR SOUL TO THE GODS ROCK AND ROLL

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