Tag: Venom Inc
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Venom Inc. + Goatwhore @ The Mod Club, Toronto, 5 September 2017
Venom are among the most influential heavy metal artists even to this day, responsible for imbuing metal with Satanic theatrics. Venom Inc. is a reunion of three members from the English band’s 1989 ‘Prime Evil‘ album, namely Demolition Man, Mantas and Abaddon. Fans spout the praises of the original group’s mainman Cronos but credit should…
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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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Mayhem & Dragged Into Sunlight (2017 tour diary)
Heavy metal’s grandfathers Black Sabbath set the genre’s tone of darkness with their music, visual aesthetic and energy, and it seems that the acorns haven’t fall from the tree at all. Their fellow countrymen—as varied as Cathedral, Paradise Lost and Cradle of Filth—have followed suit and branched off while remaining true to that ominous core.…