0070. Venom
Black Metal
Ooh, from yesterday's satanical puppy love to whole-out worship today? Venom's second album managed what few has managed neither befor nor after: naming a whole subgenre of music. It also managed to lay down the lyrical rules for the same with pleas for virgin sacrifices, ressurection of the dead, time in Hell and (of course) Countess Bathory.
However, the execution of the album is more of a garage band's demotape than a studio-recorded full-length album as Cronos' singing sounds like your big brother trying to scare you in ninth grade (it'd be a long time 'til someone invented growling I guess), Mantas' solos almost without exception feels very out of place and Abbadon's drumming seems to wander between punk and boogie-rock. Wierd.
The strangest moment on the album is Teachers Pet (yes, the whole song) where they for some reason break off into a football-hooligan-style chant and then returns to the (very not-black metal sounding) song.
It's an album you probably have to listen to at one time or another to be able to check the box "important music", but not for the sake of listening to something good (although it is amusing).
