Venom News

Moore, Blindfold the Devil and Born in Winter Friday, December 11, 2009 Gothic Theatre Better Than: A lot of metal shows I've seen.

Back On Black , which specializes in vinyl editions of classic metal albums and is dedicated to providing top-quality releases for record collectors and metal fans worldwide, will re-release the first three classic albums from the original black metal band VENOM a ' 1981's "Welcome To Hell" , 1982's "Black Metal" and 1984's "At War With Satan" .

One of the Midwest's most legendary extremists, ORDER FROM CHAOS will reunite for six nights of hellish brutality beginning on January 2, 2010 at The Riot Room in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Mosh Pit 11.27.09: Black Friday Posted by Dan Haggerty on 11.27.2009 On the most commercial day of the year, the Mosh Pit looks at the three most noncommercial albums that would shape extreme metal: Venom with Black Metal , Celtic Frost with To Mega Therion , and Possessed with Seven Churches .

TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick has posted the following message on his official blog : "Recently a writer from The Quietus , Mark Eglinton , asked for my thoughts on METALLICA 's James Hetfield .

Reformed old-school death/doom metallers DIVINE EVE will release a split seven-inch single with VEX through Horror Pain Gore Death Productions in January 2010.

Canadian metallers CRADLE TO GRAVE have commenced work on their long-awaited, third studio album and follow-up to 2007's "Texas Medicine" . The veteran band a ' which features in its ranks Denis "Sasquatch" Barthe of AGGRESSION and Matt Fowler of ASSAULT / KARRION a ' just completed pre-production with producer Clay Haluk and has entered Screen ...

British black metal pioneers VENOM will embark on a tour of Mexico and South America in December.

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DRYLL , the U.K.-based band featuring former guitarist VENOM and founding member Jeff "Mantas" Dunn , will perform at Jeff Fest on Thursday, September 17 at Trillians Rock Bar, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England.

WEDNESDAY: Liturgy , an excellent ambient black metal band of the Wolves in the Throne Room variety, puts a hex on the Talking Head with Janitor --Baltimore's Throbbing Gristle, basically--and Baby Venom .

In the primordial days of heavy metal, right as the heshers were coming into their own, there were the salad days of band names-- monolithic names so obvious and menacing they would have been snatched up by every garage band from coast to coast, were the music not so cutting edge and verbotten.

Japanese extreme metal band SIGH has completed work on its eighth studio album, "Scenes From Hell" , for an early 2010 release via The End Records .

The new ChthoniC album release Mirror of Retribution has finally hit the streets, the long anticipated follow up to the 2005 musical fury that was Seediq Bale .

"49 Theurgy Chains" , the new video from Taiwanese metallers CHTHONIC , will make its online debut tomorrow .

All right, so, get this. So, Nicolas Cage's son? Totally into black metal. For real.

Rochester, New York's ultra old-school raw black metal band CRUCIFIST has completed work on its debut album, "Demon Haunted World" , due late September via Profound Lore Records in North America and FETO Records in Europe.

Scott Carlson is featured in Amoeba Music 's "What's In My Bag?" segment in which he talks about his favorite records.

A vintage 1984 three-page photo-comic depicting the epic battle between Thor and Cronos of VENOM has been posted online at the Bazillion Points Blog .

As if Master wasn't enough of a reason to like Paul Speckmann , the dude credits this humble little magazine with boosting his career! In early 1984 Speckmann had just left War Cry and craved something faster, more aggressive, and more evil.