Venom

The story

Venom were an English heavy metal band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM), Venom's first two albums, Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982), are considered major influences on black metal, thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Their second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of the black metal genre; as a result, Venom were part of the first wave of the genre, along with Mercyful Fate and Bathory.

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Stories

Beyond the records: books, other lives and interviews, from the band and its members.

Watch

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Records

• Dying Hard in London: London, June 1st, 1984 · 2024 · live
• US Possession Tour 86 · 2024 · live
• Lay Down Your Soul! Live 1991–1993 (live radio broadcast) · 2023 · live
• In Nomine Satanas · 2022 · compilation, live
• Sons of Satan: Rare and Unreleased · 2020 · compilation
• In Nomine Satanas – The Neat Anthology · 2019 · compilation
• The Singles · 2018 · compilation
• Assault! · 2017 · compilation
• Live From the Hammersmith Odeon Theatre · 2017 · live
• Bitten (Live) · 2011 · compilation
• Witching Hour (Live) · 2009 · compilation
• The Seven Gates of Hell (The Singles 1980-1985) · 2008 · compilation
• MMV · 2005 · compilation
• Witching Hour · 2003 · live
• The Seven Gates of Hell: Singles 1980–1985 · 2003 · compilation
• Bitten · 2002 · live
• Lay Down Your Soul · 2002 · compilation
• In League With Satan · 2002 · compilation
• Darkest Hour · 2002 · compilation
• Kissing the Beast · 2002 · compilation
• The Collection · 2000 · compilation
• The Court of Death · 2000 · compilation
• Buried Alive · 1999 · compilation
• New, Live & Rare · 1998 · compilation
• The Second Coming · 1997 · live
• From Heaven to the Unknown · 1997 · compilation
• Black Reign · 1996 · compilation
• Skeletons in the Closet · 1993 · compilation
• Kissing the Beast · 1993 · compilation
• In Memorium · 1993 · compilation
• Old, New, Borrowed and Blue · 1993 · compilation
• Leave Me in Hell · 1993 · compilation
• The Book of Armageddon · 1992 · compilation
• Radio Hell: The Friday Rock Show Sessions · 1992 · compilation
• Acid Queen · 1991 · compilation
• Official Bootleg · 1986 · live
• The Singles 80–86 · 1986 · compilation
• Japanese Assault · 1986 · EP · compilation
• Eine kleine Nachtmusik · 1986 · live
• From Hell to the Unknown… · 1985 · compilation

Records from MusicBrainz, completed with the release lists of Deezer and Apple. Sleeves from the Cover Art Archive and the same lists.

Members

• 1978 to 1993
  Abaddon
• 1979 to 1986
  Mantas
• 1979 to 1988
  Cronos
• 1986 to 1987
  Mykvs
• 1989 to 1991
  Al Barnes
• 1989 to 1992
  Tony “Demolition Man” Dolan
• 2000 to 2009
  Antton
• 2007 on
  Stuart “La Rage” Dixon
• 2009 on
  Danny “Dante” Needham
• Dave Young
• Mike Hickey
• Steve White
• Conrad Lant
• Jeffrey Dunn
• Anthony Bray
• Tony Dolan
• Danny Needham
• James Clare
• Antony Lant
• Hannah Mai Young
• Clive "Jesus Christ" Archer
• John Stuart Dixon

Members past and present, each with their own page. From MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Also plays on

Records by other artists with Venom in the credits, from the song and record credits of MusicBrainz and Discogs. Their own bands are above.

Playlists with Venom in them: Sonic Architects selections and Pause & Record tapes from linr listeners, Deezer’s editors and curators, radio shows on Mixcloud and ListenBrainz playlists. Every tile opens on linr first, with the original one link away.

If you like Venom

• Celtic Frost3 sources agree
• Sodom3 sources agree
• Kreator3 sources agree
• Exodus3 sources agree
• Slayer3 sources agree
• Overkill3 sources agree
• Destruction3 sources agree
• Anthrax3 sources agree
• Bathory2 sources agree
• Motörhead2 sources agree
• Testament2 sources agree
• Mercyful Fate2 sources agree

Where the listeners of ListenBrainz, Last.fm and Deezer agree, with the circle of Venom’s own bands. A source that names other people with the same name is left out.