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The 10 Greatest Releases from the North East New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NENWOBHM)!

That's quite the mouthful!

Venom – Welcome To Hell (1981)

Track Listing:

1. “Sons of Satan”
2. “Welcome to Hell”
3. “Schizo”
4. “Mayhem with Mercy”
5. “Poison”
6. “Live Like an Angel (Die Like a Devil)”
7. “Witching Hour”
8. “One Thousand Days in Sodom”
9. “Angel Dust”
10. “In League with Satan”
11. “Red Light Fever”

This trio of unruly Satan-devoted Geordie’s were single-handedly responsible for birthing each and every key sub-genre of the 1980s. From thrash to speed metal, black metal, and, of course, death metal, it’s all Venom‘s fault….and we’re eternally grateful!

Taking everything to the extreme, Venom took rock and metal by the throat and shook harsher vocals, an obsession with Satanism and the occult, and spine-severing tempos out of its bloodied corpse and everyone who would go on to play a part in death metal’s eventual resurgence was listening.

If Venom taught the metal world anything it was that to create something new, you had to go harder, faster and not give two shits about what people thought of you…and anyone with an interest in taking metal to its extremes would go on to take a leaf out of Venom’s devilish book!

About Chris Jennings (1963 Articles)
I love metal. Always have. Always will. As editor of Worship Metal - a site dedicated to being as positive about metal and its myriad of sub-genres as possible - my aim is to 'worship' metal through honest reviews, current news and a wide variety of features; offering the same exposure to underground bands as we do to mainstream/well known acts. Our mantra; the bands are partners and we exist to serve the bands \m/

1 Comment on The 10 Greatest Releases from the North East New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NENWOBHM)!

  1. Hi. The Hollow Ground tracks on the Roksnax album aren’t the same four from the ‘Warlord’ EP (those tracks were Flying High/Warlord/Rock On/Don’t Chase The Dragon). Apologies if this has been pointed out before.

    I mention it only because I was lucky enough on Saturday to find a copy of the original EP on Guardian with the picture cover.

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