Venom, a band that has been neglected by the mainstream society for a long time, has created black metal music that has achieved great success in today's society. When people talk about modern black metal bands such as Emperor, MAYHEM and Cradle of Dirty, I'm afraid not many people can think of this band in the 1980s. The terrible thing about modern media is that most of the information people can know is only of interest to most people, that is, fashion dominates people's thinking. More unfortunately, music has also been manipulated by industry and has become a part of fashion. It is because of the media that there are so many music that can be easily heard, and people no longer have to work hard to find and explore. As a fashion slave, can you think of an evil band like Venom besides those media darlings? The most regrettable thing is that the world is too big, where can I get news outside the media? The following part of the text is compiled from bits and pieces of information collected from the internet, not a complete biography of venom.
The wind blows over the hills of Newcastle, and 1979 England is in a turbulent spring and autumn period. After a short period of punk, heavy metal music continues to exude exuberant vitality. With the birth of a large number of British New Wave Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) bands, there are three evil freaks: one is Conrad Lant, nicknamed Cronos, the lead singer and bass; One is Jeff Dunn, nicknamed Mantas, guitar; One is Tony Bray, nicknamed Abaddon, the drummer.
They were a little abrupt in the metal trend at that time. At that time, the strongest bands were motorcycle gangs and Judas priests, but there were still some things missing. Who will lead metal music into the sacred (evil) stage of further development? As the saying goes, do it yourself and have plenty of food and clothing-this is exactly what the Rand/Dunn/Bray evil alliance is going to do. They don't want to wait any longer, they just want to be the first people to eat crabs. [
In fact, VENOM's predecessor was a five-person band called OBERON. When Abaddon, a drummer in oberon, met Mantas, a stage worker at a Judas priest concert, they found that they had a lot in common and decided to form a band. The name of the band comes from Mantas, when he was a member of wild one, where his nickname was Venom. Soon after, kronos joined the venom as a guitarist. However, when Mantas wrote "Live Like an Angel and Die Like a Devil", he asked kronos to audition this song, and everyone liked it very much. At the same time, Abaddon contacted some clubs to perform, but the bass player of the band left the band because of his marriage, so kronos tried to play the bass player and found it not difficult to play with him. Now everyone is satisfied with this lineup, so it has been like this.
After the lineup was determined, the band gradually became famous through a series of underground performances. Through the vigorous battle of NWOBHM, Venom also got the record company's order, and the band's first album came out in 198 1 year.
This is a terrible album. The first is the cover design, a huge inverted pentagram inlaid with Satan's goat head. Up to that time, the only band that ever mentioned Satan was the Black Sabbath, but Venom felt that the Sabbath was not dark enough, so they boldly adopted such a shocking cover at that time. Musically, this album is even more terrible. Venom was undoubtedly the heaviest band in the world at that time. Many followers of NWOBHM think that this album can only be described as noise, not music. Of course, the production of this album is really poor, but this is only a small shortcoming. What really makes this album a classic is its dark and evil atmosphere.
Welcome to Hell is a wonderful work in the early 1980s. When other bands tried to make a little rough metal music from punk music, venom advanced the times for nearly 10 years in this song "Welcome to Hell". No one can believe the feeling when listening to this album 198 1: everything is so heavy, so evil, real black metal!
The next year, they released a truly immortal work, probably one of the best metal albums ever: Black Metal. Many of these famous songs are masterpieces of metal music, and many songs will be covered by tens of thousands of bands in the future, which has fully promoted metal music. That is, from this album, one of the most evil and extreme branches of heavy metals was officially announced. Its name is: black metal, black metal. Black, hell, evil, hatred, anti-God ... all these come from Abaddon's fast and exciting drums, Mantas's violent and deep guitar, and kronos's hoarse and vicious voice. [color=#333333]
This excellent album raised their status to the same level as the Iron Lady in the eyes of underground bands and real metal fans at that time. Although the development of the two bands in the future is very different, the most important force in the 1982, NWOBHM movement is venom and iron lady. [color=#333333] All rights reserved: paranoid metal mesh.
1984, the band released a new album "War with Satan". The most unique feature of this album is that there is only a 2 1 minute war with Satan on the A side of the album. No metal song was so long before, and even today, it is still the longest song in Thrash Metal. Yes, although this album is still great, its style has begun to feel a little heavy metal. Perhaps it is because SLAYER and METALLICA made great achievements in this bulldozer-like music form at that time, and even the venom on the other side of the ocean was influenced and impacted by the younger generation. [color=#333333]
[/color] Venom has different performances on the tour. They wear leather armor, tights and wrist guards with nails, and the props on the stage are three halberds, Satan's head and bloody calligraphy and painting. Mantas's appearance in a performance speaks for itself. "If you're here to listen to poison, then go home and listen to fucking records, because tonight you will experience an hour and a half-100% hell!" [color=#333333]
1986 witnessed the appearance of many excellent bands and albums, such as The Rule of the Killer in Blood and The Puppet Master of the Metal Band. This year, Venom released the "Possession" album, but at this time, Venom has been difficult to compare with these two American bands. These two bands were undoubtedly the best in the metal field at that time. The achievements of "Go greener" can't be compared with previous albums, and the music has rapidly declined to ordinary thrash metal, which is not what they are really good at. Venom may have realized the wrong music direction in the album Possession, so although they recorded another new album Deadline with the same style as Possession, it has never been released. [color=#333333]
The lost venom seems to be ending. When Mantas decided to leave the band for personal development, everyone thought that the end of venom had finally arrived. [color=#333333]
[/color] The following history is complicated. Abaddon and kronos didn't want to dissolve the venom after Mantas left, so they found two new guitarists, one is Mike Hickey from the United States, and the other is Jimmy Claire from the local area. The venom of these four people released the album "Calm Before the Storm" on 1987. This is a very good album. Some songs were written before Mantas left, but it sounds strange: these songs are not very poisonous. Of course, you can hear that it is still poisonous, but it is much more dull than its previous works. The worst news is that shortly after the release of this album, kronos left Venom to form his own kronos band with two guitarists, leaving Abaddon alone. At this time, Abaddon decided to keep the powerful name venom.
This situation lasted until 1989, when Mantas finally came back with two new members, guitarist Al Barnes and lead singer and bassist Tony Dolan of ATOMKRAFT. Venom was also called Venom II at that time. They recorded Prime Evil on 1989, an excellent album. However, what makes people feel very bad is that Dolan, the lead singer, is not as good as kronos, and lacks the vicious sense that venom music needs. Kronos himself has heard this album. He said that when "Worse than Evil" played this song, he seemed to hear Dolan mutter "I'm not kronos, I'm not kronos" during the intermission ............................................................................................................................. [color=#333333]
After Prime Evil, VENOM performed some small warm-up performances, which were named the sons of Satan (a song title in the album Welcome to Hell). In the next few years, the band recorded two albums, The Temple of Ice and The Waste Land, and a CD, Tearing Your Soul. These albums didn't attract the attention of fans, and many people didn't even know they existed. Of course, this is the credit of the media, because these albums are not as bad as those of the cover band. [color=#333333]
Due to the unsustainable economic situation, the band stagnated for several years until 1996, when kronos returned to the devil's arms. This is a news that makes the venom fans who have been lost for many years rejoice, because the original lineup of venom has finally returned. In this reorganization, the most unexpected thing is the attitude of Dolan, the lead singer who will be replaced by kronos. He didn't argue with the band as people imagined, but left the band happily, because he thought that kronos's rejoining would make Venom regain its former glory, which was what he really cared about-Dolan was undoubtedly the most loyal fan of Venom. [color=#333333]
Venom, the original crew, participated in some music festivals, made a small tour in different countries, and then released a new album "Breaking the Rock" on 1997. The album includes two CDs, one is a new song, and the other is a reinterpretation of the venom classic. This is a pretty good new album. At this time, the metal world has been composed of modern death/black metal bands, and both technology and arrangement are much better than venom. Venom can't compete with the younger generation in these two aspects, so this album is still a quasi-death/black metal style with a strong smell of NWOBHM. After listening to modern death/black metal, it will be fresh after listening to this album. This is the best work of Venom in recent ten years. [color=#333333]
[/color] After that, Venom released some features and live albums. In fact, various record companies have been releasing the band's special albums. 1999, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Venom, the band started a new tour and began to write a new album. The new album "Revival" was released in April of the new millennium, but this is the only album in which Abaddon, the drummer of the band, did not participate, and it was replaced by Anton. Although the name was "Resurrection", the band actually broke up at 200 1 or stopped its activities. It was not until February 2004 that kronos decided to form a band again. He found guitarist Mykus and began to prepare a new album. At the same time, Mantas gathered a group of musicians under the name of MANTAS 666 and recorded a new album "Zero Tolerance". [color=#333333]
I wonder when the Three Venom Elders will gather in Satan's arms again. [color=#333333]
The 1980s was a dark period in human history, because Christianity, which claimed to be sacred, went crazy killing people everywhere!
Tens of thousands of people died in Qian Qian ~ even if they didn't die, they were brutally persecuted! This ironclad historical fact, Christianity
Never apologized! About the brutal history of the Christian church, it will be
A chapter on the history of Christian atrocities (including historical events of persecution such as Bruno, Servit, Copernicus and Galileo).
At that time, many people who lost their families hated the atrocities of Christianity! At this time, the famous antichrist appeared in the United States and Norway respectively.
Bands-Venom (Poison) and Fog Castle Band, this is anti-Christ black metal! !
They use the voice of black metal to reflect their strong dissatisfaction with Christianity! Christian atrocities! Christian lies! Everything is made of black metal.
Strong voice to express it. And the lead singer's voice is like an animal growling, a fast and broken guitar, and the drums are constantly beating. In addition, most of the lyrics revolve around the "epic" war.
Topics such as the Holocaust, resentment, blasphemy, world-weariness and natural disasters. Put the devil Satan and the five-pointed star on the cover of the record. Shaglas, the lead singer of the Fog Devil Castle Band, once said:
They want to spread anti-Christ thoughts through art forms, "asking people to wake up, think about themselves and not blindly follow the leaders." ... we have every reason to be anti-Christ, especially Norway, because we
The country was forced to convert from a foreign religion to Christianity. 」
Maybe people will think they are extreme ... but when you know what kind of religion true Christianity is, it is not difficult to understand their feelings.
In order to maintain their wrong teachings, the church will slaughter people who hold opposite opinions everywhere! Or even claim that it is God's will to slaughter heretics everywhere and lose their loved ones.
It is a very sad thing, so the antichrist of Black Metal Band is not extreme! They also have many.
Supporters! It can be seen that people at that time could not see the evil degree of the church!
The earth is devastated and full of disasters-> Voltaire < < honest man ><
There are many unpleasant things on earth. It turns out that many of them were created by the Christian church, which has always been known as friendly! This is an ironclad fact!
No wonder Voltaire also said: Who thinks who is not a believer! Christian ~ I know many of you don't know these facts,
But I also deeply hope that you must find out before accepting Christianity!
Stay in the office, eat enough, order1100,000 people to kill, and then ask them to have a solemn sense of ceremony.
Thank god. -> Voltaire
This is true Christianity!
What a terrible cult-> Nietzsche < < Death of God ><