Black Metal (album)

This article is about the Venom album. For the Dean Blunt album, see Black Metal (Dean Blunt album).
Black Metal
Studio album by Venom
Released 1 November 1982
Recorded 1982
Studio Impulse Studios in Newcastle, England
Genre Thrash metal, black metal
Length 47:49
Label Neat
Producer Keith Nichol and Venom
Venom chronology
Welcome to Hell
(1981)		 Black Metal
(1982)		 At War with Satan
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[2]
Sounds[3]

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][4]

Although lending its name to the latter subgenre of heavy metal music, today it is still debated if the album's genre is thrash metal or black metal.[5][6] AllMusic has described it as "extreme metal",[1] while Moynihan & Søderlind in their book affirm that the album "carved in stone some of (black metal) essential features".[7] Nevertheless, its lyrics and imagery were a major influence on the early Norwegian black metal scene.[8]

The original cover art was made by the band's bassist and singer Conrad "Cronos" Lant.

Legacy

Covers

Track listing

All tracks written by Bray/Dunn/Lant. 

Side A ("Black")
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")
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

Credits

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Black Metal - Venom". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
  2. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 395–396. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  3. ↑ Bushell, Garry (20 November 1982). "Venom: Black Metal (Neat)". Sounds.
  4. ↑ Kahn-Harris, Keith (15 January 2007). Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1845203993.
  5. ↑ Dome, Michael (2007). "Murder Music – A History of Black Metal". Rockworld TV. Archived from the original on 14 October 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
  6. ↑ Sharpe-Young, Garry. "Venom Biography". MusicMight. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
  7. ↑ Moynihan, Michael; Søderlind, Difdrik (1998). Lords of Chaos – The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. Port Townsend, Washington, USA: Feral House. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-922915-48-4.
  8. ↑ Moynihan, Michael; Søderlind, Difdrik (1998). Lords of Chaos – The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. Port Townsend, Washington, USA: Feral House. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-922915-48-4.
  9. ↑ "The Kerrang! 100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Rocklist.net. Retrieved 2016-11-24.
  10. ↑ Dimery, Robert; et al. (2005). "Venom - Black Metal". 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. New York City, New York: Universe Publishing. p. 498. ISBN 978-1844033928.
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