Style: 1st wave black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: A noisy, thrashy, fun romp of an album
Thoughts: Venom. The originators of black metal. The original bad boys that sung about Satan. This is the album that started it all.
I'll be honest here, the only reason I still have this album is for pure nostalgia. The music that's on here is not generally to my liking, but it's Venom so I keep it. This is essentially NWOBHM on steroids with a huge distorted bass and the band playing as fast as they can. It's sloppy. It's messy.. and it's not very good.
That said this does have a place in black metal history that no other band can claim: the originators. Are they the ones who started the current black metal sound? Of course not. But they are the ones that set the stage for what would become my favorite genre. For that they deserve a spot in the collection.
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