We and our partners use cookies to ensure that you get the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings we'll assume that you accept cookies.✔ Continue
8 July 2010
Photo: Mikael Olsson and Emma Svensson
More about the artist
Venom is a heavy metal band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1979. Coming to prominence towards the end of the 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal', Venom's first two albums – Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982) – are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Venom's second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of an extreme metal subgenre: black metal.