Vinyl Record

Venom - Welcome To Hell

Buy Venom’s Welcome To Hell on limited gold-and-black splatter vinyl LP from Kilmorna in Listowel—a fierce 40th-anniversary metal reissue.

LP · Metal · 1981

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1981 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection Metal shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel, ship within Ireland from EUR 5.95 per record or outside Ireland from EUR 12.00 per record.

Welcome to Hell captures Venom in raw, unruly form: distorted bass, slashing guitar, pounding drums and Cronos’s scorched vocal attack pushed together with little interest in polish. “Sons of Satan” and the title track establish the record’s hostile swagger, while “Witching Hour” and “In League with Satan” turn primitive hooks, speed and occult theatre into songs that feel both dangerous and sharply memorable. Released at the dawn of the 1980s metal underground, the album drew on heavy metal’s weight while driving its sound toward something harsher and more extreme. Its rough production is central to the impact; the noise, overload and sense of barely contained momentum give these performances their identity. The result remains a thrilling document of metal changing shape in real time. This 40th-anniversary reissue preserves the original eleven-track programme on one LP and gives it a suitably dramatic gold-with-black-splatter presentation.

Welcome to Hell gave extreme metal a crucial early blueprint: faster, dirtier and more confrontational than conventional heavy rock, yet packed with chantable titles and blunt-force riffs. Its imagery, sound and attitude became especially important to the development of black and speed metal.

This UK and European 2021 limited-edition reissue marks the album’s 40th anniversary with gold vinyl covered in black splatter. Issued by BMG with Sanctuary and Neat Records branding, it combines the complete eleven-track album on one LP with a colour treatment that suits Venom’s infernal aesthetic.

Raw, overloaded and abrasive, with filthy bass distortion, jagged guitar, hammering drums and rasped vocals; primitive hooks cut through the deliberate sonic chaos.

What colour is this edition of Welcome to Hell? It is pressed on gold vinyl with black splatter, created for the album’s 40th anniversary. Is this a limited-edition pressing? Yes. The supplied release is identified as a limited-edition 2021 UK and European reissue on a single vinyl LP. Does this edition contain the full original album programme? Yes. It includes eleven tracks, from “Sons of Satan” through “Red Light Fever,” across sides A and B.