Welcome to Hell
Welcome to Hell is the 1981 debut album bi the Inglis hivy metal baund Venom. The soond o the album wis vera noisy an rough, aiblins in pairt acause the baund thocht thay wur recordin a demo when thay recordit the album ower a period o anerlie three days. Geoff Barton statit in his 1981 five-starn review o Welcome to Hell the album haed "the hi-fi dynamics o a 50-year-auld pizza" an it "brought a new meaning tae the wird 'cataclysmic'". Housomeivver, thae comments compared it tae ither hivy metal frae the early aichties.
| Welcome to Hell | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio album by Venom | ||||
| Released | December 1981 (UK) | |||
| Recordit | August 1981 at Impulse Studios in Newcastle, Ingland | |||
| Genre | Speed metal, proto-thrash | |||
| Lenth | 39:26 | |||
| Label | Neat | |||
| Producer | Keith Nichol an Venom | |||
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| Review scores | |
| Springheid | Ratin |
| Allmusic |   [1]
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The album is aften describit as "speed metal", awtho it haed a great influence on the then-emerging thrash metal style.
The first vinyl pressin includit a poster an a pink leerics sheet.
Track leetin eedit
LP eedit
Aw tracks written bi Bray/Dunn/Lant.
| Side A | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Teetle | Lenth |
| 1. | "Sons of Satan" | 3:38 |
| 2. | "Welcome to Hell" | 3:15 |
| 3. | "Mayhem With Mercy" | 0:58 |
| 4. | "Poison" | 4:33 |
| 5. | "Live Like an Angel" | 3:59 |
| Side B | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Teetle | Lenth |
| 1. | "Witching Hour" | 3:40 |
| 2. | "One Thousand Days in Sodom" | 4:36 |
| 3. | "Angel Dust" | 2:43 |
| 4. | "In League With Satan" | 3:35 |
| 5. | "Red Light Fever" | 5:14 |
CD eedit
| No. | Teetle | Lenth |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sons of Satan" | 3:38 |
| 2. | "Welcome to Hell" | 3:15 |
| 3. | "Schizoid" | 3:34 |
| 4. | "Mayhem With Mercy" | 0:58 |
| 5. | "Poison" | 4:33 |
| 6. | "Live Like an Angel (Die Like a Devil)" | 3:59 |
| 7. | "Witching Hour" | 3:40 |
| 8. | "One Thousand Days in Sodom" | 4:36 |
| 9. | "Angel Dust" | 2:43 |
| 10. | "In League With Satan" | 3:35 |
| 11. | "Red Light Fever" | 5:14 |
| Bonus tracks in 1985 rerelease bi Combat | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Teetle | Lenth |
| 12. | "In Nomine Satanas" | 3:28 |
| 13. | "Bursting Out" | 2:56 |
| Bonus tracks in 2002 rerelease bi Castle/Sanctuary | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Teetle | Lenth |
| 12. | "Angel Dust (Lead Weight version)" | 3:03 |
| 13. | "In League With Satan (7" version)" | 3:31 |
| 14. | "Live Like an Angel (7" version)" | 3:54 |
| 15. | "Bloodlust (7" version)" | 2:59 |
| 16. | "In Nomine Satanas (7" version)" | 3:29 |
| 17. | "Angel Dust (Demo)" | 3:10 |
| 18. | "Raise the Dead (Demo)" | 3:29 |
| 19. | "Red Light Fever (Demo)" | 4:51 |
| 20. | "Welcome to Hell (Demo)" | 4:57 |
| 21. | "Bitch Witch (Oottak)" | 3:08 |
| 22. | "Snots Shit (Oottak)" | 2:06 |
Comes wi a 12- page beuklet. Some versions hae slipcase kiver.
Credits eedit
References eedit
- ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Welcome to Hell - Venom". Allmusic. "Make no mistake: Welcome to Hell, more than any other album, crystallized the elements of what later became known as thrash, death, black, and virtually every other form of extreme metal".