Thursday
• O C T. XIV. • Venom — “Buried Alive / Raise the Dead”
Two tracks from the 1982 album Black Metal.
Despite being highly influential, Venom is one of those bands that always gets shit from all sorts of people—on one hand, from fans of traditional metal, because they clearly weren't technically proficient (guitarist Mantas once proclaiming on stage “A lot of bands are out there tonight, waiting for Venom to make a mistake. Well, we are the fucking mistake!”), and on the other, from fans of “extreme” metal, because Venom are clearly having way too much fun with it all.
Personally, I can't get enough of 'em, and their deliberately campy videos and guest spots in comics only endear them more to me. Albums like Welcome to Hell and Black Metal are evil party music of the first order, and every time I hear them, they make me want to get totally shitfaced and smash things in a motel room.
By a nifty coincidence, this is a fan-made vid featuring a clip from the 1981 Italian horror film Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror, a movie that was actually just mentioned a couple of days ago by X-E's Astro Zombie. I haven't seen it yet, but from this clip alone, I'm totally sold.
LAY DOWN YOUR SOUL TO THE GODS' ROCK AND ROLL.
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As far as I'm concerned, bands like Venom and Mayhem pretty much are the epitome of proper Black Metal. It wouldn't exist as it is today without these guys.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree. I'm sold on this clip too. How have I not seen this yet!?
I'm a big fan of black metal, but I'm really picky about it. First wave stuff like Venom, Bathory, Sarcófago, and Parabellum really floats my boat (side rant: why the FUCK is Parabellum not mentioned more when people talk about early black metal? They wipe the floor with most modern black metal bands in terms of sheer brutality, and had one of the ugliest guitar tones ever. That's some wild shit for '85/86), second wave stuff is a bit more hit or miss... I love Darkthrone, Burzum, and Mayhem, but once bands like Emperor and Dimmu Borgir started getting all keyboard-y, they kinda lost my interest. Things have been getting interesting again in the past decade, though, especially the French scene, with weirdos like Peste Noire spicing things up with something a bit different...
ReplyDeleteYeah, you can't really lump bands like Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, or Cradle of Filth into the same category as the earlier ones. Sure, there are some black metal influences there, but that's not real black metal. It's kind of its own, specific hybrid thing that they sort of invented. I like those bands for what they are, but I could see how a purist would be really annoyed by them.
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