Vinyl Record

Venom - Black Metal

Venom - Black Metal on LP vinyl. A 1982 Metal record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · Metal · 1982

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1982 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Metal shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Black Metal is Venom's 1982 detonation point, the album whose title became bigger than a title. Coming after Welcome to Hell, it pushed the Newcastle trio's speed, grime and blasphemous theatre into a form that felt too crude for classic heavy metal and too mythic to dismiss as noise. Cronos, Mantas and Abaddon play with a reckless urgency that helped sketch the language later taken up by thrash, death metal and black metal scenes, even though the record itself is rooted in punky speed metal and the raw end of the new wave of British heavy metal. Buried Alive, Raise the Dead, Leave Me in Hell, Countess Bathory and the title track turn horror, Satanic provocation and teenage extremity into a sound that is both primitive and catalytic. Black Metal is not polished darkness; it is the moment where distortion, image, speed and bad intent became a blueprint.

It matters because an entire extreme-metal vocabulary took shape around it. Black Metal lent a genre its name, intensified Venom's influence after Welcome to Hell and gave later bands permission to value atmosphere, aggression and shock over technical cleanliness.

For collectors, this is one of the foundational extreme-metal albums: a second Venom record with historical weight far beyond its original underground scale. Its importance rests on the songs, the iconography and the way later metal movements kept returning to its raw charge.

Primitive speed metal with punk force, dirty guitars, clattering drums, shouted bass-led vocals, occult horror imagery, rough production and a gleeful refusal of refinement.

Recommended for: Collectors building an extreme-metal origin shelf; Listeners tracing the roots of black, thrash and death metal; Fans of raw NWOBHM records with maximum attitude.

When was Black Metal originally released? Venom originally released Black Metal in 1982 as their second studio album. Did the album create the black metal name? Yes. The album title became the name later used for the black metal genre, even though Venom's own sound also draws heavily from speed metal and punk. Which songs are central to Black Metal? Black Metal, Countess Bathory, Buried Alive, Raise the Dead and Leave Me in Hell are among the tracks that define its reputation.