Black Metal (song)

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Black Metal is a song by the English band Venom . It was released in 1982 on the album of the same name .

Emergence

The song was recorded in the Impulse studios; it took the band three days to record the album, the time they were given by Neat Records . In addition to Keith Nichol, all members of the band were involved in the production. For the beginning of the song, a “steel beam was processed with a chainsaw and the part was totally scrapped”. Since other bands often lost their own sound in the studio, Cronos told his fellow musicians to tune their instruments as they would at concerts and use their live equipment.

Music style and text

Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic described the song as "proto-thrashing" . Lyrically the song is about the live performance, about “a satanic band (Venom) playing live! With amplifiers that are set to explode! "

Cover versions

The Norwegian band Mayhem released a cover version titled Black Metal (Total Death Version) on their demo recording Pure Fucking Armageddon in 1986 . Some versions of the bootleg The Dawn of the Black Hearts - Live in Sarpsborg, NORWAY 28/2/1990 contain a live cover from 1986.

A cover of the Swedish band Hypocrisy appeared in 1993 on their album Osculum Obscenum . The Australian band Alchemist covered it for the 1994 tribute album Promoters of the Third World War - A Tribute to Venom .

The song was covered by the Japanese band Sigh on Sigh's Tribute to Venom - to Hell and Back from 1995 and their EP A Tribute to Venom from 2008.

The British band Cradle of Filth covered Black Metal for the 1998 limited double CD edition of the album Cruelty and the Beast and the Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir as bonus tracks for the Japanese version of their 2007 album In Sorte Diaboli .

The 2009 album Necropolis by the Polish band Vader also contains a cover of Black Metal .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Venom Biography .
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Kupfer: Venom . Jesus had to go . In: Rock Hard , No. 304, September 2012, p. 40.
  3. ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: Black Metal - Venom , accessed October 13, 2012.