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This article is about the Venom album. For the skateboarding video, see
Toy Machine.
Welcome to Hell is the debut studio album by English heavy metal band Venom. It was released in December 1981, through Neat Records, at the culmination of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. The music of Welcome to Hell is often described as speed metal, but it had a great influence on the then-emerging thrash metal style, and crystallised the elements of what later became known as death metal and black metal.[1]
The sound of the album is very noisy and rough, perhaps in part because the band thought they were recording a demo when they recorded the album over a period of only three days. According to author Dayal Patterson, Welcome to Hell might be the first black metal album.
Critical reception
British journalist Geoff Barton stated in his 1981 five-star review of Welcome to Hell that the album had "the hi-fi dynamics of a 50-year-old pizza", and that it "brought a new meaning to the word 'cataclysmic'".[2] According to Allmusic's journalist Eduardo Rivadavia, highlights of the album include "Welcome to Hell", "In League with Satan", "One Thousand Days in Sodom" and "Witching Hour"; Rivadavia said of "Witching Hour": "Possibly Venom's single most important track, in it you'll hear a number of stylistic devices which would later pervade all extreme metal genres, indeed become their most regularly abused clichés."[1]
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Bray/Dunn/Lant.
| 1. |
"Sons of Satan" |
3:38 |
| 2. |
"Welcome to Hell" |
3:15 |
| 3. |
"Schizoid" |
3:34 |
| 4. |
"Mayhem with Mercy" |
0:58 |
| 5. |
"Poison" |
4:33 |
| 6. |
"Live Like an Angel (Die Like a Devil)" |
3:59 |
| 7. |
"Witching Hour" |
3:40 |
| 8. |
"One Thousand Days in Sodom" |
4:36 |
| 9. |
"Angel Dust" |
2:43 |
| 10. |
"In League with Satan" |
3:35 |
| 11. |
"Red Light Fever" |
5:14 |
| 12. |
"In Nomine Satanas" |
3:28 |
| 13. |
"Bursting Out" |
2:56 |
| 12. |
"Angel Dust (Lead Weight version)" |
3:03 |
| 13. |
"In League with Satan (7" version)" |
3:31 |
| 14. |
"Live Like an Angel (7" version)" |
3:54 |
| 15. |
"Bloodlust (7" version)" |
2:59 |
| 16. |
"In Nomine Satanas (7" version)" |
3:29 |
| 17. |
"Angel Dust (Demo)" |
3:10 |
| 18. |
"Raise the Dead (Demo)" |
3:29 |
| 19. |
"Red Light Fever (Demo)" |
4:51 |
| 20. |
"Welcome to Hell (Demo)" |
4:57 |
| 21. |
"Bitch Witch (Outtake)" |
3:08 |
| 22. |
"Snots Shit (Outtake)" |
2:06 |
Legacy
Credits
- Venom – producer, performer
References
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- ↑ The Dark Past.
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