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Venom is tagged as: black metal, thrash metal, heavy metal, nwobhm, metal

Venom is a metal band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1979.
Coming to prominence towards the end of the ‘New Wave of British Heavy Metal’, Venom’s first two albums – Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982) – are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Venom’s second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of an extreme metal subgenre: black metal.
Venom’s original personnel came from three different bands: Guillotine, Oberon and DwarfStar. The original Guillotine featured Jeffrey Dunn and Dave Rutherford on guitars, Dean Hewitt on bass guitar, Dave Blackman on vocals and Chris Mercaters on drums. Blackman and Mercater were replaced by drummer Anthony Bray and vocalist Clive Archer of Oberon and soon after, Dean Hewitt was replaced by Alan Winston on bass. Around the summer of 1979, Conrad “Cronos” Lant from the bands DwarfStar and Album Graecum replaced Rutherford. Around this time, the band adopted the Venom moniker.
Prime influences of the formative band were Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motörhead and Kiss. Other bands cited by Venom as an inspiration are Queen, The Who, Deep Purple, Sex Pistols, Van Halen, The Tubes and The Rolling Stones.
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Top 10 Venom Songs
Black Metal
Countess Bathory
Welcome To Hell
To Hell And Back
Buried Alive
Raise The Dead
In League With Satan
Leave Me In Hell
Witching Hour
Heaven's On Fire
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Top 10 Venom Albums
Black Metal
Welcome To Hell
Metal Black
Fallen Angels
At War With Satan
MMV
Resurrection
Calm Before The Storm
Possessed
Prime Evil
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