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Horrible, just horrible.
My favourite genre of humour is 'let's pretend to be satanists and make deeply shit, boring and repetitive metal albums all about it.' Honestly hilarious. Rolled about laughing at that for a good hour this morning.
Not for me
Why? My ears.
just not a metal guy, it all sounds the same
Nope!
1 - TERRIBLE
It didn’t last too long at least. Good for them for having so much influence but not my thing. Found it very lame. Rating: 1.3
This may be the most accurately-titled album on the list. Musically it is just ok, although it wasn't until almost the end of the album that a track rose above the gravel into actually interesting territory. The lyrics are ridiculous, but that too is just an expected part of the genre. I'm sure that there are better examples to show this off. Favorite track: "Don't Burn the Witch" was OK
Metal is not my thing.
Jeg er en snydepels. Jeg kan simpelthen ikke lytte til hård metal i en time. Af alle genre nogensinde tror jeg faktisk godt jeg kan sige, at jeg hader metal mest.
hated this
Lyrics are repetitive, predictable, and at times cringe-worthy—“put it down towards her mound”? Vocals shout the same way through nearly every track, and the raw, chaotic energy just didn’t land for me. I can see why metal fans love it for attitude and influence, but as a casual listener, it’s a tough slog.
I really couldn't make it through the album.
Meh. Admittedly, I am not a big metal fan, but I can appreciate it. This just wasn’t my favorite of the genre.
This is another one of those albums that has obviously been included because it was massively influential, but which has been completely eclipsed by those followers and has nothing more than historical significance.
Er Diavlo
Just no.
Just a 1/5 through and through. Metallica is on this list a few times, so this record gets invalidated. Vocals that are so painfully on the nose. Really poor mix/master work, at least for the current version on Spotify. Couldn’t take it seriously after an honest 5 song effort
Truly horrible and unpleasant to listen to.
I like metal, especially nwobhm, but was never a fan of Venom
Tf is this shit
kut herrie
Oh no thank you. Dark and angry and way metal-y. Nothing for me here.
It’s just like modern country music but swap the cold beer for hail satan
Nope
My favorite song was the one where he screamed about death and hell over the loud guitars. Yeah, that one was really original.
I'm not a fan of metal, no matter what color it is. Some of the songs had some good guitar work, but I really wish this guy would stop screaming at me. Best song: Raise The Dead
Nope
I can understand the case for this album being influential for the development of metal, but that doesn't make it an enjoyable listen. Maybe this points to its influence, but too many of the songs play like a mashup of the worst stereotypes of metal music (mercifully without the growling that hadn't taken hold yet). Venom comes off as the lovechild of Motorhead and a satanist, but they must have missed out on the musicality genes, which was never too strong with Motorhead to begin with. If the music was any good maybe I could get behind the satanic obsession, but in the absence of much interesting going on musically it just seems goofy. Realistically, what am I supposed to make of the lyrics? Am I supposed to relate to any of this stuff? Of course, the one song of any interest to those committed to the land of the living is Teacher's Pet. The bluesy interlude in this song was a nice departure from what came before and afterwards, but in an album full of bad lyrics this one really stands out. Did they think they were being clever, rhyming "pet" with "wet"? It's horrible. If this song and Hot for Teacher were horny high-schoolers, Hot for Teacher would be the popular class clown, and Teacher's Pet would be the incel lurking in the back row, devoid of any charm or sense of humor. And that lack of charm is ultimately the overarching problem throughout the album - not much of it is outright offensive, but there's also nothing to like. Some songs have good elements to them, but the good is outweighed by the bad in almost every case. And even if I was inclined to go for this kind of sound, or if I was in to human sacrifice, just about every aspect of what Venom did on this album has been done better elsewhere. Maybe this is one of those albums that everyone should hear once, but needless to say, I won't be returning to it.
I keep getting stuck on this album. I want to like it but it's not hooking me. Probably best to skip
My musical nightmare: an Unlistenable wall of noise. I honestly lasted one track before I couldn't take it anymore.
I don’t even want this album on my algorithm. Stopped it immediately.
No thanks
Utdaterat tycker jag
i rebuke
😐
Boring and repetitive
押し入れから聞こえる呻き声
1,1/5
Getting through this album felt like a chore is the only way I can describe this album. The guitar is good, but the drums leave much to be desired. Vocally it’s meh. It’s not the best, but not the worst. It’s just there and it sounds like it was recording on an answering machine. At one point I asked myself, how is this still going? My final verdict: this is an album that exists.
funniest shit I've ever heard
This album sounded like a parody of metal. So bad but also quite funny
Really really not for me, but that is expected. I can tell the guitar is incredible throughout, so I wish I could handle listening to it more.
There's better metal than this. Also the production is atrocious and most of the riffs are just Motorhead
I found out I hate metal music
Not my style
terrible
La verdad no lo escuché porque tenía al diablo y yo no lo voy a escuchar gracias
Oh blimey! I have brain ache, there’s no excuse for this, the fact they influenced new Metal genres means nothing, crap influencing crap. Ultimate low point was chants of ‘Get Your Tits Out For The Lads’…yeah, deep
I’m all for finding new music but is it sad that for Venom - Black Metal I’m unsure which is the band and which is the album? Quite possibly the longest hour ever and an audacious start of this project for me... For most of the album I wondered if this site allowed ratings lower than 1* but there were one or two songs that weren’t horrible so I guess 1* will do…
Laughable
La, la, la ,al ,la la, la la, la la... My cherie amour, lovely as a summer day My cherie amour, distant as the Milky Way My cherie amour, pretty little one that I adore You're the only girl my heart beats for How I wish that you were mine......la la la, la la la..la la la la la la..
Not my tempo
This did not need to be on the list. I can think of a fair few metal bands that could have easily taken the spot that this album took up
Not for me
This album means nothing to me except as a reminder why I find most metal incredibly annoying and boring.
it's astounding that this album had as much of an impact on metal as it did when it's pretty much garbage. it all sounds like shit. one of the muddiest albums i've heard in my life so i can't even appreciate the energy of the riffs. the whole album sounds like i'm hearing it through the wall to my neighbor's apartment. it's unclear to me if this is a creative choice or a skill issue but it's nigh unlistenable. the lyrics are hilariously cringe so of course the biggest nazi dullards on the planet in norway took it and ran with it.
Absolutely not my kind of music. I can appreciate that Venom pioneered a sub-genre of music, but I am not their intended audience.
Would I listen to it again? No. Def not my vibe, but I can appreciate the musical abilities and the guitars are dope.
Absolutely, no thank you. Also, not interested in music promoted with so much satanic imagery.
Can't say it was my speed exactly
Absolute shit.
No. Extreme metal .. nope. More than an hour? Nope. Sameness
Not my thing
i had a phase like this in high school too i just didn't insist on making it everybody else's problem
It's an alright metal album. It's not very musical, more like noise in the background with some growling and grunting. It's a solid 3/10
Terrible. Rock for nerds. There is nothing authentic about this at all. Feels so fake and forced
I just laughed my way through this. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just so freakin corny. Guttural screams, singing about satan and hell and sacrificing Luther or something. lol * After skipping through the album again, I'm changing my rating from 2 to 1
Keech!
so bad
Nah.
Nope!
Unnecessary goth metal.
Not my thing
This is actual garbage, no redeeming qualities
Not my taste
I know someday I’m going to hear a metal song and suddenly understand why people like it so much. My eyes will be open to the power of the darkness. That day is not today.
Just noise
Historically significant perhaps, but really not enjoyable in any way.
Not my style
Do they have any idea how cringe this is? “Oooh, Satan, we’re so edgy”.
Not a fan of metal
I love rock and heavy metal music but this is mostly kind of boring. Guitar is innovating thrash metal but drums are not doing anything interesting and it's jarring to have those put together like that. The sound engineering is awful, which I assume is on purpose but makes for a significantly less enjoyable listen. I am starting to understand why this era of metal bands was called New Wave (of British heavy metal), hearing how the vocals are performed with little regard for being in tune (in this instance clearly valuing the sound of the growl over the pitch of the note) and then being drenched in reverb, which only lengthen and highlight the imperfections.
I've yet to find a metal album I enjoy. This didn't help.
Not my cup of tea.
terrible mixing these guitars are too quiet also for metal these are some boring drums my 108th album and my first 1 so long and all the songs sound the same and are about the same things except for teachers pet where I wish they were singing about Satan again
Diabolic.
So this is the satanic devil-worshipping stuff parents didn’t want their kids listening to. I honestly think that is the only reason anybody would ever listen to it, because their parents didn’t want them to. Cuz I see zero artistic or aesthetic appeal to this at all. Took my ears on a journey to the bottom of the ninth level of hell and back. Yikes this was abysmal. Or should I say abyssal.
I can recognise how the album would have a certain impact on metal, but to be honest, it's not my thing. Even the satanism part of it doesn't really raise my eyebrows or wow me particuarly. It's very much what you would expect, lots of heavy riffs, pounding drums, quick rhythms, 'shouty' singing.
Uhhh.....nope. I'm all for heavy metal....but this? No thanks.
My heavens that was dumb. And yet so demanding of my attention. I see on Wikipedia they were critically assessed as "a trio of buffoons" around this time, and that tracks. I do appreciate the audacity of Teacher's Pet even if I do not condone it.
Oh wow. So bad. One dimensional. My ears are bleeding. Copy and pasted this review from the Black Flag album review.
Wtfwt?
fuck this. don’t put bands like this on the list as a joke, it’s not funny.
Mega oof right here
Not my thing.
can't vibe with this
I see that its a precursor to thrash. I see why people would like it, I dont. Those lyrics....
What torture for my ears. I like a good metal album but this wasn't it.
Oh I didn't care for that at ALL
This is not for me fam.
Désolé je n'aime pas le métal
struggle cityyyyyy ugh cmon with this one
the only album thus far that i've genuinely struggled to get through. not only is this heavy/black metal genre just not my cup of tea, the recording and production sounds terrible. i understand why it's been included on this list in the sense that it was highly influential album for this style of music, but i just thought it was quite bland in comparison to other metal albums out there. the lyrical content was a major turn-off for me - i know they've said that it's unserious and they don't actually do/believe what they sing about but i just though it was super odd, far too literal and somewhat offensive in parts.
awful. parody of itself
Metal is always a tricky genre for me—it has to be really good metal for me to even give it a chance. So what exactly is Black Metal by Venom all about? Let’s find out. On my first listen, I genuinely couldn’t work out whether this was meant to be taken seriously or if it was some sort of parody, closer to Spinal Tap or Tenacious D than a serious metal record. At times, it felt almost cartoonish in its attempt to be dark and heavy. The whole experience was odd, confusing, and ultimately not for me. It’s safe to say this isn’t my thing—I won’t be coming back to it. There’s too much focus on Satanic theatrics and too much noise for the sake of noise. Favourite track: I couldn’t pick one. Least favourite track: Most of the album—I really didn’t enjoy much of it at all. Album artwork: Dark and grim, not something I’d ever want hanging on the wall.
Demasiado heavy para mi
Erster Song zu Ende.. und ich will schon nicht mehr. Unglaublich gammelig produziert (ja gut ist alt, aber wenn es so wichtig ist, warum gibt es dann nicht mal ein Remaster davon?). Ich lebe Metal zwar, aber nicht den Kram hier. Mal sehen, wie viele Songs ich aushalte. Joa hat mir absolut nichts gegeben. Nach Song 10 habe ich das Album dann für mich beendet. 1/5
Maybe it was a pioneering album, but in a vacuum, meh 1*
Can I speak to the person who created this list?
minus -100
• 1/5 • Sounds like the soundtrack of a death metal mockumentary
Couldn't finish even pretending I was listening to Retsko at karaoke
No es para mi
I don't think that I found any redeeming quality in this album. Sad.
More like Wack Metal
did not like
Egentligen bara en ganska medioker heavy metal platta, har ingenting musikaliskt att göra med black metal förutom att genren tog sitt namn härifrån. Kanske lite mer ondska och ockultism än average heavy metal från denna tid men mest tramsigt. Lyssna hellre på Judas Priest "British steel" eller nåt med Saxon från samma tidsepok.
Det blir så lätt fel när ett band bygger sin musik på tuffhet. Vem tycker att satanisms är tufft? Blev någon annan än Siewert Öholm provocerad. Tomma poser och dålig teater. Låter som en gäng rollspelsentusiaster som vill spela punk. Rätt trist rakt igenom.
01) Black Metal - 4,0 02) To Hell and Back - 3,5 03) Buried Alive - 5,0 04) Raise the Dead - 4,5 05) Teacher's Pet - 4,0 06) Leave Me in Hell - 4,0 07) Sacrifice - 4,0 08) Heaven's on Fire - 3,5 09) Countess Bathory - 5,0 10) Don't Burn the Witch - 4,0 11) At War with Satan (Preview) - 1,0 TOTAL: 3,86 (39/100) After the first song, I can already see that this will be a well-deserved one star album.
Heavy metal, like Rap, is beyond my understanding of what music should be. I didn't waste my time listening to this.
Ah, so this is the music that Spinal Tap was making fun of. Got it. I don’t mind heavy metal, but this album is just hell and death on every song, with guttural yells in place of singing. I couldn’t wait for it to end.
Horrible
Just annoying
Discounting Hissing Sids, venom means to me a spiteful malicious feeling or extreme ill will which describes my view of this lot and this album. 1/5 23/6/25
As I listened to (all of) this album I thought maybe the app should be re-named “1001 albums to listen to before you complete puberty”.
Pretty terrible. I should have loved this but it just wasn't there. Admittedly, I only listened to the first few songs so it may have gotten better? But I doubt it.
Metal
Influential album, but I don't like metal at all and I don't like this album. It's satanic, the drumming is bad, the production is just weak. There is nothing to like here. p.s. about the bad lyrics: in "Countess Bathory" the charges against her have been described by historians as a witch-hunt, and its purpose was to destroy her family's influence in the region. She was a powerful noblewoman and her family was a big threat to big empires, like the Habsburgs. The lyrics are just silly and often satanic.
Obnoxious, unnecessary and generally shit kind of music. Go away.
Not worth my effort typing out a review
Rather unpleasant
In a nutshell: the genre had to start somewhere (shoulder shrug) Can definitely hear the Motörhead influence. Is it me or does the frontman (Conrad) sound like Otto from The Simpsons? Overall: 2/10
The recording sounds so so weak.
Always amazing at the diversity of music people are able to enjoy.
This is the hundred twelfth album I’m rating. I haven't listened to a lot of metal so I'm looking forward to this album. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Black Metal, To Hell and Back, Buried Alive, Raise the Dead, Teacher's Pet, Leave me in Hell, Sacrifice, Heaven's on Fire, Countless Bathory, Don't Burn the Witch, and At War with Satan (Preview). All in all I liked 0/11 songs. I hate Black Metal. Awful awful genre.
This album was horrible unless you were a satanist, I guess.
A real head scratcher
Well that was awful. Y’all need Jesus. TBH in a lot of this album it was kinda cheesy, felt very much like they wanted to seem super hardcore so they included a bunch of satan worship. This was trash.
Terrible
This is why people think metal is a joke. Nothing about this feels genuine or authentic. This is all a performance. Every single song title invokes some kind of horrible imagery, and brings to mind images of despair, violence, or else some kind of twisted concept. And I know, I KNOW, I can hear you saying - "but that's the point! It's supposed to be over the top, it's supposed to be shocking!" Sorry, I don't care. When every song is just relentlessly about the same thing, and when the thing feels so goddamn performative that it definitely isn't authentic, I just don't care. I have no belief that the guys in this band are Satan worshipers. Like, sorry but I cannot imagine people living their lives like that. It's an image, and it's a really shaky one. Maybe that doesn't matter to metalheads, but it's never sat well with me when a band writes lazy ass lyrics about worshiping Satan or whatever. Like at least try to be creative with your lyrics, regardless of the topic. One star. Standout Track: Black Metal
Blows chunks
Weer zo'n vaag, nietszeggend album. 1.4
Apparently this was a trailblazing hard core speed metal offering. As much as I like heavy metal, the grim, dark nature of the themes is a bit much for me. I won’t be listening to this again.
This spot really should/could have gone to someone more deserving, like, say, Liberace, or the Chipmunks.
Schlock. Over the top satanism with bad music. I like metal, and this is kinda just noise around edgy lyrics.
Ooooof, definitely my least liked genre. Spoiler alert: these guys aren't black. The lyrics are hysterical, actually. It's like they asked ChatGPT to write shock-value satanic verse in the voice of a troubled 12-year old boy. I'm gonna pass but thanks for sharing your anger.
not a lot of redeemable qualities here
This sounded like every lame metal album I've ever heard. Did it basically create this genre or something? Cool I guess, but still not interested.
Based on the album name alone, I knew this was going to be a MASSIVE struggle. And boy was I right. I don’t care if this is influential, it’s horrible.
36/1001 As someone who spent my first couple of years as a guitar player locked in my room trying to learn widdly-widdly solos, mistakenly thinking the end goal was to become some kind of Steve Vai guitar hero, I have listened to a lot of metal albums. This is not one of them - and I wasn't missing anything. It's puerile, repetitive, and musically really rather dull.
Too black for me. Dnf.
Lay down your soul to the gods rock and roll/Metal tenfold through the deadly black hole/Riding Hell's stallions bareback and free/Taking our chances with raw energy/Come ride the night with us, rock hard and fight/United my legions we stand/Freak hard and wild for us, give up your souls/Live for the quest Satan's band It's gonna be one star for me Clive.
Cringe
Okay don’t get me wrong. I like rock but not like this.
There’s a difference between music and loud sounds. This just convinces me more about how much hard metal is not my type of music genre.
I don’t like metal and this is no exception
A slog - that I did not finish. Sounds like a demo tape. Surprisingly for metal the vocals are very clear and so unfortunately can hear all the nonsense that they are singing / shouting aback.
A group of edgelords made an awful album
No
Nah non fa per me
Not for me.
in fairness, the "get your tits out for the lads" bit is fucken hilarious
I wish the people who made this album discovered therapy before they made this mistake. Unfortunately, they are now just goths who live in their mom's basement and worship Satan. If you can't tell, I think this album is trash!
This is great said no one ever.
Only listened to one song but not my kind of thing at all. Probably okay live but not at midday on a Monday. 2/10
horrible, hate it though only listened to first song ( and im DONE )
The only way I could tell it wasn't a single, incredibly monotonous song was by the occasional youtube ad (and the 'video paused, are you still watching' message about 2/3 of the way through). It doesn't say much for this album that I actually started looking forward to the ads as highlights. I've enjoyed a lot of other metal albums on this list, so it's not a musical preference thing - this was just a shit album. I intentionally didn't listen to the last couple of tracks so I could give it 1 star - a kind of musical opposite to a chef's kiss, a chef's punch? a clef's punch?
Shitty metal album. I could not get through it
Tuffa och arga grabbar!
No thanks
Not for Chad.
Not for me
Wow - that was painful.
saw the song teacher's pet, looked somewhat promising 30 seconds in: "teacher's pet, teacher's pet, teacher's wet" oh hell nah
Espera aí, num tem necessidade de colocar uma versão estendida do disco, não tem como seguir com mais de 30 minutos com as tentativas de ser pesado, que fica enfadonho.
Well, I sure thought THAT was horrible! I guess if you’re into devil worship, you might like this, but otherwise… Anyway, is it possible to give an album zero stars? I would’ve been able to tolerate this, if not for the so-called singing and lyrics, but I suppose that’s a lot of the appeal for its audience. I did make myself listen to at least one minute or so of each of the songs. Needless to say, this is just not for me.
No. It just hurts.
I thought this was awful. It reminded me of a technically proficient high school band of misfits whose singer owned the mics and PA so he got to be the vocalist.
Crap sounding like crap
This sucked - it was not good. Sometimes when I get the squirts it sounds better than this.
No. Trash.
Eew metal
Not my genre
Ja ok, es hat ein ganzes Metal-Genre beeinflusst. Wenn nicht sogar gestartet. Meinetwegen. Trotzdem nur organisierter Lärm.
Goth kids in the '80s probably ate this shit up. All the hell, satan, demon talk got old reeeally fast. Every song sounded so similar and repetitive. There were a couple cool guitar solos, but that's it Also the production quality is absolute trash. Maybe that's just the style of the music. I'm sure Venom was genre-defining in the 80s, but this album does not hold up today imo.
Id love to know people who like this album… mainly so i can put them on a list and stay as far away from them as possible.
It does sound really terrible. so hard to listen to. They couldn’t fix this mix?
Nah
The words are quiet and the instrumentals are loud. I tried listening to it really loud. I didn't really feel it and it didn't work for me.
Got half way through... Good guitar Shut music
No thanks. 1/5
I hope to never hear it again
Well that was an album.
Still trying to like black and thrash metal, still not.
Somewhere... Dante Alighieri is rolling over in his grave.
not enough devil worshipping
My ears are bleeding. Not a fan
It's like Judas Priest, but without most of the good stuff, and mixed to sound like it was recorded in any empty underground garage with a single mic a couple of levels away. Wikipedia says it's an extremely influential album for various sub-genres of metal. Good to know (so I can avoid those sub-genres). Honestly, much like the sound mix, each song sorta blended together into a muddy pit. I actually completely missed the transition from "Black Metal" into "To Hell and Back" and yet didn't realize I was listening to a different song. What's up with the last song on the album being called "At War With Satan (Preview)"? And it fades out mid-song? Is it like an after the end-credits scene at the end of a Marvel movie that sets up the next one? I did find the song Teacher's Pet interesting and I'm glad Van Halen "payed homage" to it and made a much, much better version. (if you tell me they hadn't heard this song, I call BS) . For whoever this hits in the right place, I'm glad it exists, but it's not for me.
N O P E …
I tried two songs. It's just not my thing.
Once I finish this I will never ever listen to this again. It's crap. Why is the production so so bad?
Scary
i don’t have the enough angst to enjoy this. I’m also not 18 and living in a house with parents I hate in suburbia where no one gets me
So these guys are to blame?
These guys do not sound good
I did not hear any music, just satanic noise. Not my cup of tea, but others may enjoy.
Meh
Sorry, not sorry
You ever look at an album cover and say I don't need to listen to that? I just did.
No
Will never understand what makes metal music I would want to listen to. If I want energetic guitar music, I prefer the 'noise' like Foetus or the rhythms of early Velvet Underground, or Pixies or e.g. Viagra Boys. But this is just boring rhythms with boring singing and so on. Bless those who like this, I don;t
Album 424 of 1001 Venom - Black Metal Rating : 1 / 5 This is actually one of those satan worshipping records your parents warned you about. They get right to the point. Even with the subject matter aside, it pretty much sucks.
I feel bad for giving low ratings just because I don't like a particular genre of music, but for my own sake, I need to know to stay FAR, FAR AWAY from this! 1 star!
We have Megadeth at home:
Terrible
Don’t like the mix me don’t like the music
Noise
Habe mir die ersten zwei Songs angehört und entschieden, das ist nichts für mich. Musik und Text, rufen in mir Kopfschütteln hervor und ich meine damit nicht 'headbanging'. Ich wüsste keinen Grund, warum ich mir so etwas anhören sollte. Ich denke, das war mein erstes und letztes Mal. Eigentlich gibt es von mir '0' Null Sterne, aber da das nicht geht, halt einen '1'
Yeah not going to lie this was pretty bad. Gets plus one star for the unintentionally funny lyrics
Best case Iron Maiden, worst case Slipknot. Nope.
really did not enjoy 1/5
Guitars were decent. Disliked the voice of the lead singer and the songs in general. Not a fan of extreme metal.
singen kann der "Sänger" jedenfalls nicht; dann doch lieber Rap
Eigenlijk kan ik niet veel anders dan dit soort muziek enorm puberaal vinden. O, kijk mij eens eng doen. En me geen raad weten met emoties. En ik kan geen meisje krijgen. En ik heb energie teveel met mijn lange, lijzige lijf. En ik hou van pesten (na-na-na-na-naaa). Iets anders kan ik er niet van maken waarom je dit zou willen maken, en eerlijk gezegd ook waarom je het zou willen luisteren. Prima als het je ding is, maar ik kan er niks mee.
There's plenty of good metal missing in this book. Then you have shitty metal like this turd of an album that's in it. Yes I know it's a parody but then put Spinal Tap in here instead. At least they were funny. This was plain idiotic.
You couldn’t make this shit up
not4me
I was looking forward to listening to this....but it was awful! It reminded me of a comedy spoof band called Bad News: a deluded, self important group thinking they were much better than they were. However, Bad News was actually better than this! (Give Bad News a listen, it's worth it!) Really disappointed in this :(
Too much anger, not really music.
Laehlll - Get Me Out of Hell. Wait, didn’t I just hear this song? That took a lot of energy (to listen to, never mind make). An hour+ of the same thrashing song about hell and Satan. Didn’t like it, will avoid Venom in music and real life. (0.4*s)
Not for me
I guess this must be here because of it's influence rather than the merits of the music itself because it doesn't have many reasons to be on this list based on the music itself. High 1.
I prefer metal with better guitar riffs. This being early death metal, I can understand the lack of depth in the instrumentals. Sounded a little over dramatic and too much bloody hands in hell. Not my bag.
Why must I hear this before I die? I can just wait 'til after I'm dead and listen to it during an eternity in hell. Terrible vocal style and lyrics spoil what might otherwise have been some mediocre Motorhead tracks. For teenage boys only.
That's a nope from me. 1/5
Nope. It may be influential, but not in a good way.
Mucho metal
No
On the plus side, it seems like This is Spinal Tap and Tenacious D wouldn't exist without albums like this. On the minus side, most of this was headache-inducing. If there was a special classification of one-star metal albums for me, this would be toward the top of the pile. I can understand the lyrics, some of the guitar sounds pretty cool. But, like, attempts to sound hardcore and scary are ultimately sort of lame.
It's too loud and I listened too early in the morning.
No
It’s such a fine line between stupid, and uh... clever. Bailed before the first track had finished. Shocking.
The worst album yet, after 146 days. It has all the worst elements of metal, but with one additional factor: you can actually hear the lyrics. Oh good! Let's see if actually metal singers have deep thoughts and emotions when it isn't just screaming. Wait. Why does he keep saying 'doth' and singing about trolls and goblins or whatever? Is he 14 and a nerd? Hang on, this one's a misogynist, back-seat-of-the-bus giggle about fancying your teacher. That's a gear switch. WHY IS THE NEXT ONE ANOTHER DOTH ONE? Genuinely makes you think that castrating all teenage boys is probably the best way to save the planet.
Not my cup of satanic tea
So... When Miles Davis released *Milestones* and *Kind Of Blue* he did not only release great albums a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. He also created a whole new music genre, known as "modal jazz", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when Bob Dylan released *Bringing It All Back Home*, he did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. He also created a whole new music genre, known as "folk-rock", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when The Who released *My Generation*, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new trend for "mod-rockers", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when The Beatles released *Sgt Pepper*, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created modern pop music, along with a whole new template for albums as a serious art form, and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when The Velvet Underground released their eponymous debut with Nico, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, known as "art-rock", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when Fairport Convention released *Unhalfbricking*, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, known as modern "British folk" at the time, and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when Marvin Gaye released *There's A Riot Going On*, he did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. 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Likewise, when Kraftwerk released *Radioactivity* and *Trans-Europe-Express*, they did not only release great albums a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, known as "electronic music", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when Patti Smith, The Ramones, The Damned and The Clash released their respective debuts, they did not only release great albums a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, "punk", and this almost singlehandedly (at least for each incremental steps leading to that style as it is known for and enjoyed today). Likewise, when Wire released their debut *Pink Flag*, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, known as "post-punk", and this almost singlehandedly Likewise, when Minor Threat and Bad Brains released their first EP, they did not only release great records a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, "hardcore punk", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when Kate Bush released her debut "*The Kick Inside*, she did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. She also created a whole new music genre, known as "baroque pop" (that she later brilliantly furthered in *Hounds Of Love*). And she did all this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when The Human League released *Dare*, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, known as "synth-pop", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when Talk Talk and Slint respectively released *Laughing Stock* and *Spiderland* on each side of the pond around the start of the nineties, they did not only release great albums a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, known as "post-rock", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when NWA released *Straight Outta Compton*, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, known as "gangster rap", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when A Tribe Called Quest released their debut LP, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, known as "new school hip hop" at the time, and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when Massive Attack released their debut *Blue Lines*, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, known as "trip hop", and this almost singlehandedly Likewise, when Daft Punk released *Homework*, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also created a whole new music genre, "French Touch", and this almost singlehandedly. Likewise, when The Strokes released their debut *Is This It*, they did not only release a great album a lot of people still hold dear to their heart in 2023. They also triggered the whole *rock-revival* wave, and this almost singlehandedly. And so on. There's probably a dozen of other similar examples left, and of course, there will be many other ones in the future. What about Venom's *Black Metal*, then? Surely, with an album title like that, it has spawned new generations of long-haired lovers of heavy riffs and extreme-sounding vocal ! Well, parts of the album's horror Z-movie-level Satanist imagery, clearly parodic here, might indeed have been influential for a few Scandinavian bands, most of them filled with naive teenagers who didn't have a clue all of this was mostly in jest. And yes indeed, parts of the objectively *terrible* music might have have been listened to by those same teenagers. So yes on both counts. The thing is, said music is so badly composed, so badly performed, and so badly recorded that it's just impossible to take it seriously in 2023. And more importantly, *most metal fans out there* don't take this music seriously either today!!! At least that's what my usual impressions about this band tell me, and the reviews in here mostly confirm them. You have literally dozens and dozens and dozens of album categorized in the same subgenres as Venom that have been recorded since 1982, and you can bet your boots they sound better than this pile of hot garbage. Plus, musically speaking, *Black Metal* isn't really "black metal". It's very much trash metal / speed metal and the likes. There's no high-pitched shrieking and the riffs are too slow. It's only the Satan thing that can make you tie this act with later ones using that same "brand'. And well... that Satan thing wasn't even invented by Venom. The Bible invented it, did it not? 😉 So even as a first example of a precise subgenre--no matter how good or bad that example is--this album doesn't hold water. Very few people enjoy it now, it has no "objective" merits, and the influence it might have had--stemming on a misunderstanding anyway--has little to no relevance in the long run. So next, please. Number of albums left to review: 336 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 299 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 161 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 213
Not my vibe
Couldn't stand the vocals at all. A few decent guitar solos, but that was it. Wouldn't listen to again. Min 1 out of 5
Dog shit bad
They really lean into the heavy death satanic metal theme. If they weren't pioneers of the genre I'd think they were a parody band.
This album sucks. I wouldn’t call myself a metal aficionado, but the vocals were bad, the instrumentals were uninspiring, and the production made it sound worse. DNF.
I do not like metal, and this did not change that. Struggled to get through this one.
Metal
Pas écouté en entier
Ok
I tried…could not get past the first song. Does it get better? I’ll never know.
Ég gaf Sepulturu eina stjörnu. Sem er synd, því ég myndi vilja gefa þessu mun lægri einkunn. Það jákvæðasta sem ég get sagt er að ég næ ekki nokkurri tengingu við þetta.
not interested
Awful
Just pretty boring angry metal, my least favorite kind of metal.
Not what I needed first thing in the morning
Horrible music. Did not get half way through the first song.
What's going on with the terrible production?
I think I just really don’t like metal
This shit SUCKS like actually i really don't like this kind of music couldn't even finish the thing. I'm not even sorry, screw you Venom
Nah
Not a big fan of this album, I feel like all the songs sounds similar. The instrumentals were good just not in love with the vocals.
I listened to 20 seconds of the first track, then 20 seconds of the second, and got the gist. C’mon…
Not a good album. I just can't do metal like this. 1/5
29th June 2023 Listened a day late throughout the day. Was in London for GD town hall. god this was a slog.
Is that Meg White on drums? This really isn't very good. I don't care if it's influential, the album itself is shit. Most of it sounds like that track on Dead Letter Office when REM were pushing about. I was expecting thrash. I didn't enjoy any of the songs, nor did I think it was musically good but just not for me. Hence it's a one star, sorry, those are the rules. Also, why does it end with a long intro to a song which then immediately fades out? Daft.
Nope
Nope
Seriously? This guy's voice is terrible and the songs are so basic. Devil rock? So cliche. I grew up listening to heavy metal. This is weak by most any standard. Worse, it keeps people from giving metal a chance. Maybe this album is on the list because it is early in the development of the genre? If not, I'm not sure why it's among the others.
Did not enjoy at all. Basic and boring. Listened to the end to see if my opinion would change. Wish I hadn't bothered.
Venom are still touring because Satan doesn't want them stinking up Hell with this terrible racket.
First listen Saved 1/11 Top track: Black Metal
That just felt silly
I had a root canal once.
God no
Just about every song sounded the same.
ахаха я боюсь этого альбома, как бабуся)) страшная обложка, страшные названия текстов (хотя даже смешно немного, когда одних и тех же типа страшных слов так много рядом и они повторяются (в общем-то просто темы одни и те же)): "в ад и обратно" - а нет, все-таки "оставьте меня в аду" - там я пойду на "войну с сатаной"), сама музыка страшноватая спасибо, что, как выразился один из авторов здесь, "the whole thing sounds like it was recorded in their bathroom" - так смешнее) и менее страшно но сначала похихикала, а потом все таки стало тревожно, так что досвидос, сатанисты ахах (не могу выбрать, 1 поставить или 2)
The production on this album is terrible which apparently is supposed to be part of its appeal? I don't get it. The lyrics are pretty edgy and hardcore, but I guess I just don't care about black metal. I am an atheist, too, so it's not the lyrical content that bothers me, it just doesn't really get me hyped for some reason, and I think that's what the artists were going for, so it missed the mark. The instrumentation seemed pretty generic to me and the vocals were just meh. I think part of it might've been the lack of production, but I don't know. I just didn't like it. Quiet the opposite, actually, which is why I give it 1 star.
Wow that was hard work. And this is a rough week.
Worse than awful.
Not very good
Aesthetically metal just is something that interests me from its emphasis on technicality over tune or it’s occult/satanic lyrical themes (boring and unrelatable). I can get a kick out of novelty stuff (Bodycount) or musically undeniable stuff (prime Metallica) but this is neither. They’ve more in common musically with hardcore like Black Flag than power metal, but unfortunately the lyrics are just as dumb as power metal. Look, I don’t buy the existence of satan, and I’m not convinced these guys do either; but they’re more than happy to sell it.
hmm..
Didn't like wouldn't listen again
Made it through 2 songs. No.
Nope. Not a fan.
Not at all my style
Too boring.
It's not even black metal. What we get instead is absolute trash.
Turd
This album made me wonder if I actually like metal as much as I thought I did. Favorite track: Don't Burn the Witch
No thanks
Not for me.
The music actually isn't so bad, but I can't get on board with the screaming vocals, it's all just a bit tedious.