Black Metal (album)

Black Metal
Studio album by Venom
Released	1 November 1982
Recorded	1982 at Impulse Studios in Newcastle, England
Length	47:49
Label	Neat
Producer	Keith Nichol and Venom
Venom chronology
Welcome to Hell (1981) Black Metal (1982) At War with Satan (1983)

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Black Metal is the second album by the English band Venom. It was released in November 1982 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][2] Although lending its name to the latter genre, today the album is often regarded as thrash metal rather than black metal.^[3] The All Music Guide described it as "proto-thrash".^[2] Nevertheless, its lyrics and imagery were a major influence on the Early Norwegian black metal scene.

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

It has been listed as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Track listing

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.	"Teachers' 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

Bonus tracks on 2002 Remaster
No.	Title	Length
12.	"Bursting Out (60 Min+ version)"	2:58
13.	"Black Metal (Radio 1 session)"	3:08
14.	"Nightmare (Radio 1 session)"	3:27
15.	"Too Loud for the Crowd (Radio 1 session)"	2:09
16.	"Bloodlust (Radio 1 session)"	2:44
17.	"Die Hard (12" version)"	3:06
18.	"Acid Queen (12" version)"	2:31
19.	"Bursting Out (12" version)"	2:59
20.	"Hounds of Hell (Outtake)"	3:20

Bonus tracks on 2009 Remaster
No.	Title	Length
21.	"Bloodlust (7" Single A-Side, NEAT 13)"	2:59
22.	"In Nomine Satanas (7" Single B-Side, NEAT 13)"	3:26

Credits

• Cronos – bass guitar, vocals
• Mantas – guitar
• Abaddon – drums

Covers

• Alchemist covered "Black Metal" for a tribute album.
• Blitzkrieg covered "Countess Bathory" on the album Unholy Trinity.
• Cradle of Filth did a cover of "Black Metal."
• Dark Forest, a black metal band from Brazil, covered the song "Black Metal" on their demo Sodomized By Depraved Goat from 2003.
• Dimmu Borgir covered the song "Black Metal", as the Japanese version bonus track on their album, In Sorte Diaboli.
• Hypocrisy did a cover of the song "Black Metal" on the album Osculum Obscenum.
• Isegrim made a cover album called "A Tribute to Venom"
• Machetazo covered "Black Metal"; it appears on the compilation Ultratumba.
• Mayhem, whose guitarist and bandleader Euronymous hailed Venom as an important black metal band, covered "Black Metal" on their Pure Fucking Armageddon demo.
• Messiah Marcolin did a cover of "Countess Bathory."
• Necrodeath made a cover of "Countess Bathory" on their album Draculea released in 2007
• Obituary covered "Buried Alive" for their greatest hits compilation, entitled Anthology.
• Sigh covered multiple songs off of this album (as well as other Venom albums) on To Hell and Back: Sigh's Tribute to Venom in 1995, and on A Tribute to Venom in 2008, along with other EPs and splits.
• Unleashed covered "Countess Bathory" on Shadows in the Deep from 1992.
• Vader covered "Black Metal" on their album Necropolis.
• Macabre covered "Countess Bathory" for their album Grim Scary Tales.
• Warpath covered "Black Metal" for their album When War Begins.
• Kazjurol covered "Countess Bathory" for their ep Body Slam.

Legacy

• In 2005 it was voted the 68th best British album of all time by Kerrang! readers.
• The title track was featured on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

References

MusicMight.com: Venom: MusicMight Biography

1. ^ Kahn-Harris, Keith. Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge. Oxford: Berg (2007). ISBN 1845203992
2. ^ ^{a b} http://www.allmusic.com/album/r21130
3. ^ Dome, Michael (2007). Murder Music – Black Metal. Rockworld TV.