Venom

Genres: Metal, Speed Metal, Hardcore

Venom

Ranking

  • Rank: #106 of 411 bands on the BandRank leaderboard
  • ELO score: 1000
  • Record: 0 wins, 0 losses, 0 ties in head-to-head votes

Bio

Venom were an English heavy metal band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), Venom's first two albums, Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982), are considered major influences on black metal, thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Their second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of the black metal genre; as a result, Venom were part of the first wave of the genre, along with Mercyful Fate and Bathory.

Bio source: Wikipedia

Albums

  • Welcome to Hell (1981)
  • Black Metal (1982)

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