Black Metal (album)
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| Studio album by Venom | ||||
| Released | 1 November 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1982 at Impulse Studios in Newcastle, England | |||
| Genre | Speed metal, thrash metal, first-wave black metal | |||
| Length | 47:49 | |||
| Label | Neat | |||
| Producer | Keith Nichol and Venom | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Sounds | [2] |
Black Metal is the second album by English heavy metal band Venom. It was released in November 1982, during the great flourishing of metal music in the UK that was the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and is considered a major influence on the thrash metal, death metal and black metal scenes that emerged in the 1980s and early 1990s.[1][3] Although lending its name to the latter genre, today the album is often regarded as thrash metal rather than black metal.[4] All Music Guide described it as "proto-thrash".[1] Nevertheless, its lyrics and imagery were a major influence on the early Norwegian black metal scene.
The original cover art was made by the band's bassist and singer Conrad "Cronos" Lant.
Track listing
| Side A ("Black") | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Black Metal" | 3:40 | ||||||||
| 2. | "To Hell and Back" | 3:00 | ||||||||
| 3. | "Buried Alive" | 4:16 | ||||||||
| 4. | "Raise the Dead" | 2:45 | ||||||||
| 5. | "Teacher's Pet" | 4:41 | ||||||||
| Side B ("Metal") | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 6. | "Leave Me in Hell" | 3:33 | ||||||||
| 7. | "Sacrifice" | 4:27 | ||||||||
| 8. | "Heaven's on Fire" | 3:40 | ||||||||
| 9. | "Countess Bathory" | 3:44 | ||||||||
| 10. | "Don't Burn the Witch" | 3:20 | ||||||||
| 11. | "At War with Satan (preview)" | 2:14 | ||||||||
| Bonus tracks on 2002 Reissue | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 12. | "Bursting Out (60 Min+ version)" | 2:58 | ||||||||
| 13. | "Black Metal (Radio 1 session)" | 3:08 | ||||||||
| 14. | "Nightmare (Radio 1 session)" | 3:27 | ||||||||
| 15. | "Too Loud for the Crowd (Radio 1 session)" | 2:09 | ||||||||
| 16. | "Bloodlust (Radio 1 session)" | 2:44 | ||||||||
| 17. | "Die Hard (12" version)" | 3:06 | ||||||||
| 18. | "Acid Queen (12" version)" | 2:31 | ||||||||
| 19. | "Bursting Out (12" version)" | 2:59 | ||||||||
| 20. | "Hounds of Hell (Outtake)" | 3:20 | ||||||||
| Bonus tracks on 2009 Remaster | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 21. | "Bloodlust (7" Single A-Side, NEAT 13)" | 2:59 | ||||||||
| 22. | "In Nomine Satanas (7" Single B-Side, NEAT 13)" | 3:26 | ||||||||
Credits
Covers
- Alchemist covered "Black Metal" for a tribute album.
- Blitzkrieg covered "Countess Bathory" on their album Unholy Trinity.
- Cradle of Filth covered the song "Black Metal" on the special edition of their album Cruelty and the Beast.
- 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.
- Isegrim made a cover album called A Tribute to Venom.
- Machetazo covered "Black Metal"; it appears on their compilation Ultratumba.
- Mayhem, whose guitarist and bandleader Euronymous hailed Venom as an important black metal band, covered "Black Metal" on their Pure Fucking Armageddon demo.
- Messiah Marcolin did a cover of "Countess Bathory".
- Necrodeath made a cover of "Countess Bathory" on their album Draculea released in 2007.
- Obituary covered "Buried Alive" for their greatest hits compilation, entitled Anthology.
- Sigh covered multiple songs off of this album (as well as other Venom albums) on To Hell and Back: Sigh's Tribute to Venom in 1995, and on A Tribute to Venom in 2008, along with other EPs and splits.
- Unleashed covered "Countess Bathory" on Shadows in the Deep from 1992.
- Vader covered "Black Metal" on their album Necropolis.
- Macabre covered "Countess Bathory" for their album Grim Scary Tales.
- Warpath covered "Black Metal" for their album When War Begins.
- Kazjurol covered "Countess Bathory" for their EP Body Slam.
Legacy
- In 2005, it was voted the 68th best British album of all time by Kerrang! readers.
- It was included in Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
- The title track was featured on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Venom: Black Metal review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ↑ Bushell, Garry (20 November 1982). "Venom: Black Metal (Neat)". Sounds.
- ↑ Kahn-Harris, Keith. Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge. Oxford: Berg (2007). ISBN 1-84520-399-2.
- ↑ Dome, Michael (2007). "Murder Music – A History of Black Metal". Rockworld TV. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
External links
- Black Metal (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)
- Venom: MusicMight Biography
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