Welcome To Hell is a Metal album by Venom, originally released in 1981. On Gatefold: 86 pressings tracked, owned by 9 collectors.
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A 1981 bridge between old-school U.K. metal of the Motörhead/Saxon stripe and thrash, death, and especially black metal yet to be born, Venom’s debut sounds like it was cranked out in a bomb shelter with dirt falling into the instruments. The superbly slimy “In League With Satan” and “Welcome to Hell” are no less catchy for their demonic subject matter, while “Live Like an Angel” and the brothel-hopping “Red Light Fever” give bikers and street punks something raunchy to die for.
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Tracklist
- 1Sons of Satan3:37
- 2Welcome to Hell3:13
- 3Schizo3:30
- 4Mayhem with Mercy0:59
- 5Poison4:30
- 6Live Like an Angel3:58
- 7Witching Hour3:40
- 8One Thousand Days of Sodom4:35
- 9Angel Dust2:39
- 10In League with Satan3:31
- 11Red Light Fever5:14
- 12Angel Dust (Lead Weight Version)3:02
- 13In League with Satan (7" Version)3:31
- 14Live Like an Angel (7" Version)3:53
- 15Bloodlust (7" Version)2:59
- 16In Nomine Satanas (7" Version)3:28
- 17Angel Dust (Demo)3:10
- 18Raise the Dead (Demo)3:29
- 19Red Light Fever (Demo)4:50
- 20Welcome to Hell (Demo)4:57
- 21Bitch Witch (Outtake)3:08
- 22Snots Shit (Outtake)2:06
Sound DNA
- Metal
- Black Metal
- raw
- aggressive
- primal
Original released in U.K. on December 1981.
Debut album recorded in 3 days, it wasn’t really an album but a collection of re-recorded demos with a sleeve, which is why there’s such a huge difference in sound quality between 'Welcome To Hell' and the next album.
Venom recorded the first 6-track demo (in 1980) that got them signed with Neat Records for their first 7’’ ‘In League With Satan’ / Live Like An Angel - Die Like A Devil. Here it must be said that the initial mix of the tracks was made by a Neat engineer that he didn’t understand Venom’s sound and in result it didn’t really sound like them, so Cronos stole the initial tape and replaced it [before the pressing of the EPs] with one of his own mix!
First pressing includes pink insert + poster.
Side B Neat Records label, released on: Silver (opens in a new tab), Blue (opens in a new tab), Green (opens in a new tab) and Red (opens in a new tab) variants.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- AbaddonDRUMS DRUMS, OTHER
- CronosBASS BASS , VOCALS BASS , VOCALS, ARTWORK
- MantasGUITAR GUITAR , OTHER
9 collectors on Gatefold own this · 86 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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