Venom

[skeptik]

Yet he knows a bunch of punk bands. God you fucking people. You of all people Erik. I love Quorthon as much as you but it's more than obvious that he's spun a couple Venom albums during the Bathory writing sessions.

 

[Hammer of Might]

this has turned into a thread about Bathory

Anyway, who has seen Venom live before? Were they satisfying? What sort of range of their material did they play?

 

[skeptik]

They're bound to play the vast majority of the time from the first three albums and the new album, since they're trying to recapture the early Venom aesthetic.

 

[Under The Oak]

What sounds better, if you invent a genre or expand it. It's so much better to be the father of then genre with no influences than just a continuing porponent.

I can't stand it when people have this mindset. Invent a genre, expand a genre, who gives a shit? If the music is something you like, does it really matter who came first or who copied who? Everything in music has been done, and there were probably guys tapping out guitar solos in garages long before Eddie Van Halen made it famous on a record. The "pioneers" of different genres are no better or worse than those who take it that extra step into something slightly different.

 

[Intoxicator]

you have to realize that living in SWEDEN in 1982-ish -- and to put shit into perspective here, there were VERY FEW swedish heavy metal bands around in 1982 and certainly there would be no real extreme metal bands until bathory popped up -- it is by no means unimaginable that your average metalhead had NOT heard of venom. motörhead, maiden, priest YES but venom? probably very underground back then.

Yeah, I read an interview with Quorthon once where he said it was hard to get a drummer because everyone was into stuff like Europe, not the extreme shit he was doing.

 

[Priest of Evil]

this has turned into a thread about Bathory

Anyway, who has seen Venom live before? Were they satisfying? What sort of range of their material did they play?

Not Live but I've watched the Seven Dates of Hell video more times than I care to think. I still love that video to death! Maybe they'll tour Australia one day

Oh and TaylorC makes a good point!
But I've always found it hard to believe that Quorthorn never heard of Venom.

 

[Priest of Evil]

BTW Geographical location makes no difference - back in the day of Venom, Cronos n' crew were all the fucking rage influencing everyone around the globe. The fact that Sweden had more melodic bands back then means nothing, other than the fact the Swedes are more inclined to writing melodies. Cue Gothenburg...

 

[metal paddy]

Overkill were the first band to make thrash metal. Not Venom.

oh shut it you harry potter

 

[Erik]

Yet he knows a bunch of punk bands. God you fucking people. You of all people Erik. I love Quorthon as much as you but it's more than obvious that he's spun a couple Venom albums during the Bathory writing sessions.

so? which was more fucking popular at the time, PUNK or UNDERGROUND HEAVY METAL?

 

[metal paddy]

so? which was more fucking popular at the time, PUNK or UNDERGROUND HEAVY METAL?

punkthen thrash metal that is the long and short of it

 

[Susperia]

Oh my god there weren't any smiley faces.

 

[Mort Divine]

Oh my god there weren't any smiley faces.

<3 Yay.

 

[metal paddy]

Oh my god there weren't any smiley faces.

this because patsy o the metal him has gone very adult about him metal music him is now a teacher

 

[skeptik]

so? which was more fucking popular at the time, PUNK or UNDERGROUND HEAVY METAL?

Quorthon loved himself some Venom and because of that he wrote Bathory. You know it, so shut up.

 

[Hammer of Might]

btw - Suffocation have cancelled now so that simplifies the whole Venom or Suffocation controversy!

 

[Carcassian]

btw - Suffocation have cancelled now so that simplifies the whole Venom or Suffocation controversy!

...but now in the vein of daddy or chips, Venom or chips?

Make mine with fish and mushy peas.

 

[Stormwatch]

...but now in the vein of daddy or chips, Venom or chips?

Make mine with fish and mushy peas.

Will anyone outside the UK get that?

Venom are amusing, but from what I've heard they're not exactly black metal.

 

[Hammer of Might]

What has that old, irrelevant and shit advert got to do with Venom?

 

[metal paddy]

<3 Yay.

DO YOU FINK IAM BOVVERED

 

[The Winnipeg Warrior]

This Monday, March 20th. Wooooo Hooooo!