Venom
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Interview by Ian Ravendale, Kerrang!, September 1981
CORRECT ME if I'm wrong, but I do believe it was that well known heavy metal entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren who gave "Don't let the public ...
Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 27 February 1982
GARRY BUSHELL enjoys a noisy pint (of blood) with VENOM ...
Venom: Black Metal (Neat) *****
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 20 November 1982
OH LORD forgive them for they know not what they do. ...
Venom: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Geoff Barton, Kerrang!, 14 June 1984
"AAROOGAH! AAROOGAH!! F**KIN' AAROOGAH!!!" ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Sounds, 10 November 1984
THE AVARARD Hotel is a very grand affair. Tucked deep into the heart of Lancaster Gate, it is resplendent with all that is associated with ...
Overview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 4 July 1992
STEFFAN CHIRAZI charts the history of all those supposedly Satanic bands — anyone out there remember VENOM and their 1982 classic Black Metal, or the ...
NWOBHM: Never Mind The Bollocks
Retrospective by Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2007
Threatened by punk, Led Zep, Sabbath and Purple came under fire in 1977. A year later Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon led a New ...
Venom: "This is the devil's music"
Profile and Interview by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 27 June 2008
Credited with inventing an entire genre and influencing some of the world's biggest metal bands, Venom are still seen as a bit of a joke ...
Forging Black Metal: Cronos Of Venom Talks About The Genesis Of A Genre
Retrospective and Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 14 January 2010
Helping create extreme metal as we know it today, as well as naming Black Metal, Venom have always been the antidote to musical boredom, says ...
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, Financial Times, 15 February 2022
AS INELEGANT acronyms go, NWOBHM was at least onomatopoeic: an approximation of metal's thudding, bludgeoning bass registers. Certainly the "New Wave Of British Heavy Metal", ...
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