Tag: Venom
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Essential Heavy Metal Christmas Songs
Over at CFMU, I co-host the metal show – Kill, Eat, Exploit the Weak – and we just finished our annual Christmas special. It’s always one of my favourite episodes to put together as the combination of heavy metal and the Christmas season brings two worlds together that normally don’t mix – the extreme speed…
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Venom Inc – Ave
Venom are, after Black Sabbath and Motorhead, the third most influential band in the history of heavy metal. Thrash metal, speed metal ,death metal, black metal… all owe a huge debt to Venom. The first four Venom albums, especially the first two – ‘Welcome To Hell’ and ‘Black Metal’ – are stone cold classics. This is…
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Satan – Atom by Atom
Usually each year we’re faced with much uncertainty when hearing new metal music, especially a band with veterans such as Satan. But we have been lucky this year to listen to lots of new material from the genre of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, such as Venom, Raven, Motorhead, Iron Maiden and now…
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Venom – From The Very Depths
Venom have always been weighted down by a very metal millstone: that of their own legacy. The classic Mantas, Cronos, Abaddon line-up is the one everyone thinks of when Venom is mentioned. Since that era, Venom have been all over the place, with various line-ups, none of them achieving any great success. The Welcome To…
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The Oath – The Oath
It says a lot for The Oath that their music actually matches the images created by the album’s cover. I’ve seen this album described as occult rock, but that’s beginning to become a catch-all term, it’s meaning worn out by over-use. Rather, to my experienced ears this a great modern take on the new wave…
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Amnesia Rockfest: outdoing themselves one year at a time
On some level, every show organizer and promoter wants to have the event that those who attended look back and remember as the most incredible thing they ever saw. The memories of seeing that moment when a band hit that perfect stride after having been mothballed for years or that chime when a baby band…
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Varga @ Club Absinthe, Hamilton ON, December 7, 2013
Laura Wiebe reviews the December 7th album release party performance by Hamilton metal veterans Varga at Club Absinthe. Live photos by Adam Wills
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Hellbound Radio: September 1, 2013 Playlist
Here is the playlist for the September 1, 2013 edition of Hellbound Radio, broadcast live from C101.5 FM, Hamilton ON Canada