Everything about Venom was sacrosanct to the second wave of BM, or the practitioners of True Norwegian Black Metal, from the lo-fi aesthetic, the Satanic imagery, the desire to alienate the ...

Anna correctly identified last week’s logo as belonging to the band Morknatt ... The highly-influential Venom are teaming up with Back on Black for vinyl reissues of three of their albums — 1984’s ...

as you can hear from his cover of Venom’s proto-extreme metal classic “Black Metal” and the corpse-paint press photo of Daniel above. Listen to it below. Why Do The Heathen Rage 6/17 via ...

Nearly 40 years later, Venom have endured a myriad of lineup ... open for them in 1984 as well as the moment the term "black metal" was born. Check it all out below. The thing that immediately ...

Venom's classic turned into an industrial house track. The Soft Pink Truth is an experimental side project from Drew Daniel, known for his work in electronic duo Matmos. Drew loves black metal and ...

Black Flag, or Black Metal? These are the wholly unnecessary question fans across the internet will be asking themselves today as they choose sides in the ongoing war between Henry Rollins and Venom.

Venom can lay claim to inventing and naming Black Metal and setting up the sound and genre conventions of several others including speed metal and thrash metal with their first two albums alone.