Black Metal (album)
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| Studio album by Venom | |||||
| Released | November 1982 | ||||
| Recorded | 1982 at Impulse Studios, Newcastle | ||||
| Genre | Black metal[1] Thrash metal[1] Speed metal |
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| Length | 47:49 | ||||
| Label | Neat Records | ||||
| Producer | Keith Nichol Venom |
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Black Metal is the second album by Venom, and the origin of the term "black metal". It was released in 1982 and is considered one of the most important albums to the extreme metal movement, most notably the emerging thrash metal, death metal and black metal scenes of the 1980s and 1990s.[2] Despite being a major foundation for black metal's lyrical emphasis and aesthetics, the genre itself has expanded and evolved a great deal since the album's conception.
The song "Black Metal" was featured on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
In 2005 it was voted the 68th best British album of all time by Kerrang! readers.
The original cover art was made by the band's bassist and singer, Conrad "Cronos" Lant.
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[edit] Track listing
Note: On the original vinyl LP release of 'Black Metal, side A of the album (containing tracks 1-5) was called "Side BLACK", and side B (containing tracks 6-10) called "Side METAL".
- "Black Metal" – 3:40
- "To Hell and Back" – 3:00
- "Buried Alive" – 4:16
- "Raise the Dead" – 2:45
- "Teachers' Pet" – 4:41
- "Leave Me in Hell" –3:33
- "Sacrifice" – 4:27
- "Heaven's on Fire" – 3:40
- "Countess Bathory" – 3:44
- "Don't Burn the Witch" – 3:20
- "At War with Satan" (Introduction) – 2:14
All tracks composed by Bray/Dunn/Lant
[edit] Bonus tracks in 2002 re-release by Castle Music/Sanctuary Records Group
- "Bursting Out (60 Min+ version)" - 2:58
- "Black Metal (Radio 1 session)" - 3:08
- "Nightmare (Radio 1 session)" - 3:27
- "Too Loud for the Crowd (Radio 1 session)" - 2:09
- "Bloodlust (Radio 1 session)" - 2:44
- "Die Hard (12" version)" - 3:06
- "Acid Queen (12" version)" - 2:31
- "Bursting Out (12" version)" - 2:59
- "Hounds of Hell (Outtake)" - 3:20
All tracks composed by Bray/Dunn/Lant
[edit] Credits
- Cronos – bass guitar, vocals
- Mantas – guitar
- Abaddon – drums
[edit] Covers
- Alchemist covered "Black Metal" for a tribute album.
- Burzum covered "Black Metal" on an early demo
- Cradle of Filth did a cover of "Black Metal".
- Candlemass did a cover of "Countess Bathory"
- Dark Forest, a black metal band from Brazil, covered the song "Black Metal" on their demo Sodomized By Depraved Goat from 2003.
- Dimmu Borgir covered the song "Black Metal", as the Japanese version bonus track on their album, In Sorte Diaboli.
- Hypocrisy did a cover of the song "Black Metal" on the album Osculum Obscenum.
- Mayhem, whose guitarist and bandleader Euronymous hailed Venom as an important black metal band, covered the title track on releases and live in their early years.
- Unleashed covered "Countess Bathory" on Shadows in the Deep from 1992.
- Isegrim made a cover album called "A Tribute to Venom"
- Necrodeath made a cover of "Countess Bathory" on their album Draculea released in 2007
[edit] Trivia
- The cover from the album ...Just A Few More Hits from Exit-13 parodies the cover art work from Black Metal.
[edit] References
Rockdetector.com: Venom: Rockdetector Biography
- ^ a b Allmusic.com Black Metal
- ^ Kahn-Harris, Keith, Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, Oxford: Berg, 2007, ISBN 1845203992
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