Style: 1st wave black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: A bit more refined, but still a chaotic mess of an album
Thoughts: I bought this album in the early 90's from a local record store. It's one of the few albums I have left from back then. I wish I had more, but this is the ones I have. Do I like this album? Not really, but I also don't want to get rid of it because of the history we share together. It's the definition of nostalgia.
The highlight here is the 21 minute title track. This is the best thing that Venom ever wrote and I don't know where they got the inspiration for it. Over the course of the epic the band goes through many twists and turns and yet it still is as chaotic as the band's history would imply. The rest of the songs retain the shorter shock rock/metal feel that they had for the first two albums.
Is At War With Satan an inherently special album? No it's not. I don't think I would go out of my way these days to pick up a copy of it. Is THIS copy of At War With Satan special? You bet your ass it is.
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