Christians React VENOM Black Metal!!

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[@shaitanlavey]

Chronos (vocalist for Venom) famously once said, "We're not Satanists. We're Venomists!"

[@goatpunk]

cronos

[@rf-ec1ef]

Lolz, awesome

[@kevinmitchell4778]

Tht is fuxking hilarious

[@shaitanlavey]

@@goatpunk So sorry... I should have just said CONRAD.

[@TheMetalWarrior1993]

Actually he said "We're not Satanists, we're Metalists"

[@Mgla__]

this was 1982, no subgenres, no bullshit, only dirty sound, some mixture of heavy metal, motorhead and dirty punk. they were probably the dirtiest and the most extreme band of their time. some people do not share the opinion, but venom actually were the first band that moved the creation of black metal. yes bathory formed it and shaped it with their debut album, but venom is the one that started it all. same as black sabbath did for the metal genre in general.

[@JayBurrd]

Adi I feel the same about Possessed & Death. Possessed started it & gave the name Death Metal but Death took the name and ran with it into a new sound.

[@ArdensSedVirens1]

Adi- I will never understand people that will say Venom isn't black metal but say Bathory's self-titled is. Bathory at that point was basically a better and even more grimy version of Venom (and I mean that with no disrespect towards Venom at all, the scrawny Swedish kid just did their shtick a bit better).

[@user-yh3st1vt9z]

Love when people say Black Sabbath started Metal lol, really people need to listen, other bands, Deep Purple as an example

[@Mgla__]

+Aesir Asgard you have to draw the line somewhere. deep purple did play very progressive rock music on their albums released before black sabbath debut, but they had very little to none to do with forming metal sound. listen to any of those albums and then listen black sabbath debut. the difference is too obvious. honestly, uriah heep had more metal sound than very early deep purple, under that hippie sound they did have some very heavy and melancholic riffs. specially on sweet freedom lp. you can recognize some doom music roots there. sir lord baltimore also played very heavy music for their time. album kingdom come was way ahead of its time. for me american band pentagram and black sabbath were true foundations of metal music.

[@user-yh3st1vt9z]

as you said for you they are the founder but for me, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin created the first step for Metal

[@LOLcifer_]

Sori confirmed true kvlt-- time to buy her a sleeveless Venom shirt, bullet belt, and pentagram necklace. EDIT: Vin your analysis of the culture and music at the time, and Venom's place in it, was pretty accurate!!

[@gcruz1028]

The album Black Metal from Venom gave the genre its name. The black metal movement is divided into several waves the first with bands like Mercyful Fate/Venom/Bathory/Celtic Frost/Hellhammer in the early 80's and the second wave in the 90's Mayhem/Emperor/Darkthrone/Burzum and some more Swedish bands.This second wave took the philosophy, image, religious belief toa new extreme.

[@olavrell]

People tend to forego everything else that happened in Black metal, during the late 80's early 90's, which is unfortunate, The Finnish scene was brewing, The US, Canada, Australia,The Philippines, Brazil, France, Italy, the Czech Republic (Or rather Czechoslovakia, as it was still known as then.) Poland, Japan and so on. Some ended up having more fruitful bands than others, but the scene was brewing in more places than Scandinavia, unfortunately, Norway especially gets way too much credit and way too much attention. (And I say that as a Norwegian, who enjoy quite a few black metal bands from Norway.)

[@IntergalacticApeMan]

Guess it's just natural, cause Norwegians who were clearly influenced by a scene that was more underground, had that successful public relations campain going and so got familiar to a whole new audience that had never heard of the stuff before.

[@olavrell]

Or a review of a song from Bathory's Black Metal-period. I mean I'm a fan of Hammerheart, but it doesn't exactly capture the spirit of their earlier works.

[@sheepnoisebah]

and then it flirted with popularity with Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir

[@onsesejoo2605]

Kreator as well musically speaking.

[@shmick6079]

Also a big impact on the likes of Metallica and Slayer.

[@kinematograficznie]

For sure, they were first thrash metal band

[@L-Slayer]

Metallica shit.........venom fucking slayer

[@shmick6079]

@@L-Slayer whoa you’re too brutal for words 🙄

[@jegkegofrhum9357]

@@kinematograficznie seeing on KZbin at METAL TEENS HEARING PINK FLOYD

[@TraphouseSlutbunny]

Most of Metallica's Kill 'Em All album is exactly what you're attributing to Venom here. Songs like "Hit the Lights," "Whiplash," "Motorbreath," and "Metal Militia" are all about setting the metal culture and talk about playing instruments and singing. :)

[@attilabarsi8682]

It is really funny, that Vin doesn't really realise that :D

[@shmick6079]

Yeah, which was probably influenced by this song as well as a lot of anthemic NWOBHM songs.

[@TraphouseSlutbunny]

Oh, I don't doubt that. NWOBHM is FULL of anthemic songs. Diamond Head has a ton of them just themselves and we all know how big an influence they were on early Metallica.

[@rachelshadowblade268]

23 Metallica songs done by V&S Only 1 from Kill em All. It seems that Vin is avoiding it.

[@lug23]

@@attilabarsi8682 because he's a newie, i've heard him say «i never heard this before» to many classic stuff

[@frankspeed2665]

Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger. Enough said

[@Barney_rubble983]

Second that

[@fosforomatutino]

Still waiting

[@solidsk8er]

What about QUINTESSENCE

[@anonymous._.euronymous._.1349]

VENOM-DON'T BURN THE WITCH

[@bcg6760]

Venom and the UK wave of black metal has become known as "Black N Roll" or "Black Rock n Roll" as a sub genre of Black Metal all together

[@kimlayman4742]

Check out these songs: Death : Symbolic Death: Evil Dead Morbid Angel: God of Emptiness Cannibal Corpse: Evisceration Plague Six Feet Under: Lycanthropy Immortal: Damned In Black

[@frozennppls905]

Symbolic and damned in black are bangers

[@silafuyang8675]

Badass! This is VENOM. You won't get more badass than this.

[@mikeyd4828]

The mighty VENOM!!!!!

[@pedroprado5628]

Venom is the foundation of thrash, death and black metal

[@gp365y]

Exactly!

[@sputhoor96]

Venom is more thrash to me than black

[@ArdensSedVirens1]

Sharpoop Puthoor- They're dirty, satanic speed metal, not thrash at all.

[@Delandos]

speed metal isn't a genre

[@rupe82]

Perkunos Yea. They're not black metal tho, Hellhammer are the first black metal band I think.

[@christhegeekbowman]

Venom was founded in 1979, if i'm correct.

[@DukeHalliday-cv4fx]

Yup

[@youmasajp]

Now that you did "Black Metal", you should do "In League With Satan". The text is one thing (about a vampire?), and the catchiness of the music is just incredible.

[@hmpz36911]

Venom were a very visual band. You should check out the video for Bloodlust so you can see them just go nuts.

[@obi-wannabekennotbi2418]

Venom is influencial to many extreme metal bands, one of them is the band Mantas (or later known as Death - which you have reacted to), the name for that band derived from Jeffrey Dunn's stage name which was Mantas (Jeffrey being the guitarist for Venom)

[@JayBurrd]

Shiver yeah they listened to Flesh & the power it holds, but I want them to hear Leprosy! I bet they’d like them more after it. That whole album is the shit.

[@kevinmitchell4778]

Thts cool info,im a huge fan of both bands& never knew tht

[@JerffersonManoel]

It's impossible to talk about black metal without talking about Sarcofago (a Brazilian band). Even Darkthrone, a band which is a part of the so called "Second Wave of Black Metal" (or simply "Norwegian Black Metal"), say that Sarcofago was to them one of their main influences. Euronymous and Wagner Lamounier (former Sarcofago's vocalist, who now is a professor) used to send letters to each other. If I could suggest a song in particular, you should listen to "Satanic Lust" (from the album "I.N.R.I." (1987)). This particular song is quoted by Fenriz (from Darkthrone) as one of their main influences. Great work! :)

[@Zaratustra_88]

Correto!!

[@Zaratustra_88]

INRI pra mim foi o álbum que definiu o Black Metal.

[@imhendriyantonasution2511]

the foundation for black n roll

[@josephroiml]

Sarco.. who?

[@chinmoysarma9564]

Since you liked this, check out a similar one. Celtic Frost - Circle Of The Tyrants

[@pietrayday9915]

Celtic Frost is my favorite band, and "Circle of the Tyrants" is their signature song - highly recommended!

[@Haxprocess]

Love the opeth cover also \m/

[@realscience948]

I saw venom in I think in 1982.....London ....The Double Anchor......Hamersmith! About 50 people..........I was 14! I had no idea they would become the grandfathers of some modern metal genres, and had no idea I would become one of their very first fans!!

[@ARB2345]

The álbum Black Metal was the one that gave life to today's Black Metal bands Like Venom with their Black Metal álbum Bands Like Bathory, Venom, Celtic Frost And HellHammer brought Black Metal to life

[@davidsomerville7868]

My first taste of dark metal was in 1984 (14 years old) when I skipped religion class to run across town to borrow Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath and Venom's Welcome to Hell (1981). Like you're finding now, they were foundational. Next came Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. Check out Hellhammer's Triumph of Death. They added doom to a Venom inspiration. Lastly, the invention of the automobile is credited to Karl Benz of Mercedes Benz in the 1880's. There were some others but the Benz is what others built upon. Henry Ford was the first auto maker to fully embrace the assembly line after witnessing the processes at a slaughter house were one worker did the same cut over and over.

[@chris666boss]

According to Chronos (the singer/bass player) they were always tounge in cheak, to shock parents basically.

[@MrAlek888]

I mean if you guys want a full Mayhem experience try "Mayhem de mysteriis dom sathanas (live)" from their live album. "Mayhem de mysteriis dom sathanas alive" That's what they're all about. Very important song for black metal. ;)

[@MrAlek888]

Somebody help me get likes lol 😿 it wont disappoint u guys

[@ayeewtasko2601]

Satyricon - The Pentagram Burns!

[@thenecrosanct4906]

If you want to hear where the stereotypical Black Metal sounds came from, you should listen to any song of either 'Under the Sign of the Black Mark' or 'Blood Fire Death' by Bathory. It's the sound the majority of the second wave based their sound on, and ironically became known as the Norwegian sound, even though Bathory was a Swedish act. The main difference between Venom and the second wave bands is that Venom was a shock band for entertainment value, while the second wave were serious in their attempts to scare, shock and terrorize the mainstream. They took the sound seriously, the lyrical content, the corpsepaint image, all to differentiate themselves from the relatively safe sound and image of the rest of the Metal genre. Venom never took it seriously.

[@gp365y]

Euronymous worshiped Venom though.

[@chunguss180]

🔆🔆🔆

[@datolapauri2918]

Genre has venoms albums name so good luck debunking venom

[@thenecrosanct4906]

@@datolapauri2918 I never claimed to debunk Venom. Only a fool would deny their considerable influence on the Black Metal scene at large. I'm just saying that both musically and ideologically Venom are very much unlike what came to be considered "true" Black Metal in the late 80's/early 90's. Musically speaking their influence became much more direct in what is now called "Black 'n Roll", something that started much later than the 2nd Wave of Black Metal. It's the same with Mercyful Fate. No one will argue that their music is far from Black Metal from a technical standpoint. But they are also considered to be a big influence on the Black Metal scene, but for lyrical content and aesthetics. But from a purely musical standpoint, Bathory is the one with the strongest influence on what came to be known as "the Norwegian sound".

[@rufussamsquanch_6547]

@@thenecrosanct4906 ill agree with that.

[@ARB2345]

Venom - Welcome To Hell Or Venom - To Hell And Back

[@boscxx1447]

to hell and back.. good choice friend. shit rips

[@ARB2345]

@@boscxx1447 thanks Man Metal Forever 😎

[@MrGruntman13]

Lady lust and arghhhhhh have to be my choices

[@leotoledo5568]

iron maiden-infinite dreams or dance of death, is pure magic

[@florisbiezeman3800]

Dance of Death oeh one of my favourite songs by them!

[@sanny8716]

I honestly thought you wouldn't like it that much, but I glad you did. Vin pretty much nailed the importance of this band. Notice tho, that it's before Metallica, so it's roots of all the extreme metal music too. Next in your black metal journey would be Hellhammer and early Bathory (apparently the one song you reacted to was from their later Viking Metal period)

[@JamesHolmez]

Totally hear the Metallica influence in this song. Agree 1000%

[@aranox]

AT WAR WITH SATAN 19MIN EPIC BY VENOM! MAKE IT HAPPEN! xD #srycaps

[@grantnelson9268]

You guys nailed this!!

[@samdoo1433]

Septicflesh - Enemy of Truth

[@paulh6673]

Manowar did plenty of songs about their mastery of metal. "Blow Your Speakers" was the first song I heard from them. Judas Priest, Kiss, Twisted Sister, Motorhead and Metallica ("Metal Militia") have all written those 'self-aware' (meta-l?) types of things too.

[@bschuler6216]

Yeah. There were only so many themes and premises that metal generally covered. After society's ills, violence and mayem, war and killing, women and cars/bikes, there was always the obligatory "how we rock/making the badass music" song. Nobody did it like Manowar though. Other bands play; Manowar kills!

[@pietrayday9915]

I'm tempted to add Manowar in there as another huge influence on black metal: I wouldn't call them a "proto-black metal" band, but they recorded more than one proto-black metal song, and it's hard to unhear the Manowar influence over the viking-obsessed Bathory and Norwegian black metal bands once you hear it. Black metal was one of the oldest metal subgenres (even if it took a few years for Venom to give it a name), and that self-aware aspect was always part of it. Maybe it's a reaction to the prog-rock, space-rock, shock-rock, and heavy-pschedelic schools of lyric-writing that influenced other forms of metal? (It's kind of hard to imagine the likes of Alice Cooper, Iron Butterfly, Jimi Hendrix, or Black sabbath singing about how much weirder and more psychedelic and sci-fi they are than anyone else....) Early metal was kind of a strange animal: you had aspects of it coming in from the decidedly middle-class prog and hippie backgrounds from one side, and the decidedly working-class aspects borrowed from shock rock, arena rock, and proto-punk from the other side. You could see a bit of that schizophrenic combination in Manowar's ability to sing completely in-character a sword-and-sorcery-themed epic in one song, then a belt out a thoroughly self-aware foot-stomper about being a true metal fan and rocking hard and playing loud and not putting up with posers and fools in the next.... I think that concrete, realistic, self-aware (working-class?) element fell out of fashion for metal alongside thrash: black metal carried it over for a while before purging it all in favor of prog, avant-garde, and symphonic metal, but I don't think I can think of anything after the "tr00 kvlt" '90s Norwegian second wave that would compare....

[@keithholm7493]

Kings of Metal

[@TrueMetalBrother]

Joey's Speech on The Bridge of Death

[@robertgarofalo8330]

Definitely a black metal anthem, yes it's straight forward and simple, other Venom songs you should react to are Buried Alive, Welcome To Hell, 1000 Days In Sodom, Rip Ride, Women, Leather And Hell, At War With Satan (Title Track), Die Hard, just to name a few. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎶🎤🎸

[@ryanmiller167]

Don't burn the witch and bathory are good as well

[@robertgarofalo8330]

@@ryanmiller167 Indeed Countess Bathory!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎶🎸🎤

[@hmpz36911]

Finally someone else said BURIED ALIVE 🤘

[@fosforomatutino]

Sori is starting to figure black metal out in a huge level. So proud!!!! :')

[@ezioaltair2194]

This one is in my top 10 best metal songs ever, i really love this master piece!!! lml

[@IntergalacticApeMan]

Also, if you're into the culture thing, compare Saxon's "Denim and Leather", it's about how the NWoBHM started out. And of course Exodus' "Bonded by Blood" and Thrust's "Posers will die" are some of those metalhead bonding songs.

[@markblaauw4961]

Allegaeon: Proponent for sentience III the Extermination or Grey matter mechanics. Doesn't matter what you choose. It's all amazing. Edit: Venom are pioneers but saw them once playing games at a festival and they stood there without inspiration. It was a pity because I had high expectations. That was my first impression of the band unfortunately.

[@cometnine]

Sori is getting the hang of this! You two rock :D

[@michaelcooper7989]

Good stuff! Venom, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Mercyful Fate were huge influences on black, thrash and death metal! Check out Messiah by hellhammer and Into The Crypts Of Rays by Celtic Frost.

[@megaherd619]

Iron Maiden-Phantom of the Opera (live at the Rainbow or live at Ullevi)

[@sinergy111]

That is Maidens best song.

[@erotensa5937]

Venom finally....

[@blakejohnson7148]

You're welcome! Glad you got off on Venom. I've been getting off on them since 1982.

[@mertyilmaz9951]

Venom-Hell and Back. You' ll love it

[@Banglum]

Check out Welcome to Hell by Venom. It's the title track off the first lp. Black metal is their second. Nice job with this!

[@peeweewallabowski7084]

Helloween - Keeper of the seven keys 🎃 EDIT: Next Venom song should be At War With Satan. If you want more satanic lyrics 😁

[@tombelanovic7686]

I listened to that album a lot back in the day. So did my neighbours, bless 'em.

[@nelsongollarza8617]

Vin sir, you hit exactly in the point. They said we are here, we looks ugly, we are not the best in instrumentation but we do what we like and everybody like it. Fuck the haters

[@daniellstn]

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of a Seventh Son

[@gothnick21]

In fact VENOM are responsible not only for Black metal but for Thrash, Death etc. For extreme metal music in general...

[@name1181]

and they were influenced by Black Sabbath, the Sex Pistols and Judas Priest. It's evolution..

[@hmpz36911]

Motorhead

[@gothnick21]

@@hmpz36911 of course Motorhead...

[@pvilches06]

Amazing reaction and review Vin and Sori. One of the forefathers of Black Metal indeed and the most historic song for the genre at its early inception. Now that you have reacted to Venom and Mercyful Fate, you need to react to the third part of that unholy trinity: CELTIC FROST!! Please react to "Into Crypts of Rays" or "Nocturnal Fear". Love you both and hope you enjoy your show.

[@dewaynemobley3049]

Vin is finally getting it. I find you often disappointed when music is lacking great solos or deep meanings. A lot of early thrash was just for releasing frustration and angst. You are right about the culture and Sori is dead on the “car” comparison. I actually clapped and cheered. Take it for what it is. Compare it only to what was prominent in 1981 or its contemporaries, not to the modern. Proud of you two, you need to get out more often, lol.

[@crow666ification]

Shining nor -I won't forget Katatonia- for my demons

[@grotesquebeauty]

Katatonia, yes

[@eyebrowsoffreedom1728]

Hell yea Venom! Is it time for Iron Maiden - Powerslave yet?

[@cirith100]

I’m 50 and was into the scene at that time , there wasn’t all of these names for metal genres just rock / hard rock / acid rock , which is what the media and most people not into rock music called all heavy music / heavy metal , thrash metal , a term used by Kerrang magazine to describe the band Anthrax , it was called speed metal before that , death metal , called that because of the band Death , they were trying to sound like a corpse if one could sing , and black metal was called satanic metal for the most part but the record labels and music stores didn’t want to have the word satanic as a label in there stores so black metal came about , bands like Bathory and Emperor and Celtic Frost took Slayer’s speed Megadeth’s unorthodox song structures and mixed it with Mercyful fates style image and corpse paint and that’s more or less it

[@seanegglesden5702]

YEEESS! I love Venom, Hellhammer next though.. Awesome review and discussion as always... However please may I ask you two to review more AMON AMARTH it has been far too long now since your last reaction: Father of the Wolf, Death in Fire, One Thousand Burning Arrows, Blood Eagle, Thousand Years of Oppression, Under the Northern Star, On Northern Shores, Pursuit of Vikings, Raise Your Horns.🤘🏻 🤘🏻

[@Yankes28]

Death - ''Without Judgement'',''Symbolic''...Death is the best death metal band of all time !

[@zodijackyl2525]

Venom, nice, makes sense you'd do this song, since it gave Black Metal it's name, I was just thinking about it recently when Vin said he wanted to go to the "roots" of Black Metal. Although if i'm being honest, I'd rather see you react to Venom - Countess Bathory... or some Celtic Frost, hehe. Anyway, time to play the video. EDIT: Finished it, i didn't expect Sori to react so well to it. She reacted as I did when I first heard it. I didn't care for Black Metal like Mayhem, and I expected Black Metal like Mayhem.. and then I got this. It's just fun, man. I was saying "i'd rather see Countess Bathory", which is also from that album, and is also.. just fun, that album is fun. And then I heard Celtic Frost's "To Mega Therion", also expecting some fucked up shit.. and what I got was some good fun well played Thrash Metal. Safe to say I like these "origins of black metal" more than the first albums from the norwegian wave with mayhem, darkthrone etc. In the off-chance you read this, You could check out Venom - Countess Bathory, the Hammersmith live version (since you love live version), from 1985 I believe... It's a short song like this, and gives you a visual of what they were like.

[@Evl_1]

Zodijackyl Countess Bathory live where Cronus destroys his bass at the end. OMG It’s my favorite VENOM song

[@hmpz36911]

The energy and build up in BURIED ALIVE

[@AndrewMartinez1776Redux]

Venom "In League with Satan" next please.🙏

[@kittenblossom2794]

Great playing. Simplistic and repetetive lyrics. Thank God this has evolved.

[@khellendross3573]

Celtic Frost and probably Helhammer are the last two I would say that form the foundation of what Black metal would come to be. I think less people know about Helhammer but they are no less important because Helhammer BECAME Celtic Frost. So I think Helhammer is the next place to start, and then Celtic Frost. Worth noting that Mayhem's drummer called himself helhammer as a homage to this hugely influential band. For Celtic Frost I would recommend The Usurper (interestingly the album this is from is To Mega Therion which inspired both the band Therion and their song To Mega Therion). For Helhammer its tougher to pick a song. But I would probably say the song Eurynomos simply because of its ties to Mayhem (Euronymous was the guitar player killed by Varg)

[@skelmskellington9236]

Danzig - Long Way Back From Hell Danzig - Devils Plaything Danzig - Thirteen

[@uBoBaMnupa]

*ManOwaR* - Metal Daze, Army Of The Immortals, All Men Play On Ten, Blow Your Speakers, Kings Of Metal, Metal Warriors... just a few ManOwaR tracks about the metal music as a culture.

[@xjosebusaidx]

Hi Vin & Sori, I would like to congratulate the channel, but must of all for being really good persons as a holistic view. I'm an Atheist, an watching your channel makes me think there's hope no matter what religion you practice or which ideology you have. You being so open to everything and the most important part of all is that your open to conversation or debate. I would like too if you can do a reaction on deafheaven, any song you want. My best regards to you.

[@corpazilum5352]

I can see how this evolved into it. Musically, anyway. Lyrically, it reminds me of Kill 'em All.

[@DethronerX]

Metallica greatly influenced by those bands and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal

[@juangil9628]

yeah, mostly Whiplash and Metal Militia lyrically

[@DethronerX]

as for the sound, i think it was that era of late 70s and early 80s, when a lot of rock/metal had the same tone and distortion effect, which sounded more like Overdrive. The bass in the 70s was also raw sounding with mid and highs and less lows, until the 80s gave a lot of low end to overall music, including the kick drum.

[@shaitanlavey]

Metallica opened for Venom to support Kill 'Em All. Metallica openly references Venom as an influence... not the other way around.

[@juangil9628]

yeah, I've seen that, the little I know from KISS has the same kind of lyrics though. just rocking out. a bunch of young bands in all genres did those kind of lyrics for a couple of songs.

[@MB-oc1nw]

Other good Venom songs... Countess Bathory Witching Hour Seven Gates Of Hell Buried Alive

[@oliverlambert1727]

Venom, in my opinion, were a thrash band that brought the initial ideas of darker themes; eventually evolving into black metal. I am open to any other ideas however! So please let me know

[@abominog888]

This was a cool video. And your right it's the attitude and Venom definitely established the culture!

[@tarcisiojunior511]

Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith.

[@ingsoc_8295]

Tarcisio Junior good one

[@tarcisiojunior511]

Indeed bro, would be groundbreaking.

[@styrkjarsteibjorn1860]

Great one

[@TopKek115]

Wow did not expect this....you've simply got to check out Venom's other songs .Welcome to hell .Live like an angle die like a devil .In league with Satan Edit: Judging by the replies maybe add "Teachers pet" to that list & maybe one of my personal favourites "Schizoid"

[@ArdensSedVirens1]

Acid Queen, Witching Hour, and Raise the Dead are fantastic tracks as well.

[@sanny8716]

Also Witching Hour and Angel Dust

[@mertyilmaz9951]

Don't forget Hell and Back

[@BongEyedBastard]

Bloodlust Satanachist The Seven Gates of Hell

[@ramtheix]

What about "teacher's pet"?

[@allephdacosta6760]

Vin, if you want to hear more metal songs about metal I highly suggest Dream Evil - the book of heavy metal. Badass song I think you’ll both love

[@BongEyedBastard]

Venom were the band that got me right into metal back in the day, especially loved the song "The Seven Gates of Hell" from their Eine Kleine Nachtmusik live album. Years later their drummer Abbadon ended up playing with my band for around a year. Smashing lad, not the greatest drummer we ever had but most definitely the LOUDEST. A real nostalgia trip this but I'm 30 odd years older now and grown out of this tripe a long time ago.

[@DevilPS3player]

Band Yob doesn't sound like anything else you reacted to before. It's just pleasure to ears and soul (if you have one). This trio stands out of others in stoner/doom genre with inspirations in black metal and psychodelic rock and it also has eastern music type vibe. I receomend their song called In our Blood but any other is just as good to begin with.

[@richardbell2816]

Quantum mystic

[@DevilPS3player]

#Yobislove

[@jon9428]

Bathory - Oden Rides Over Nordland/A Fine Day To Die

[@danielsimeonov3504]

I enjoyed this reaction as much as Sori enjoyed the song at the beginning! really entertaining - and good drill down into the vive and the lyrics. You should finally do some Darkthrone - say Kathaarian Life Code, or Quintessence... Or maybe finally Key to the Gate By Burzum? 😜

[@BlackieNuff]

Yeah, this song is perhaps an exception rather than the rule for them ; others would include Cry Wolf, Countess Bathory, Bloodlust, Schizo, Angel Dust, Powerdrive, Stand Up And Be Counted, and the insanely hilarious Aaarrrggghhh, and more. Normally, most of Venom's songs are all Satan, all evil, all darkness. Some lyrics can even be a bit disturbing, such as in Possessed, Sacrifice, Leave Me In Hell, In League With Satan, In Nomine Satanas, and more. They also have an array of sexually-charged songs with a humorous edge with Voyeur, Poisoned, Red Light Fever, Muscle, Women, Teacher's Pet, Lady Lust. Their big epic song is a 20+ minute conceptual piece called At War With Satan, from the 1983 album of the same name (Venom was already doing what Dream Theater is now famous for - songs that take up half a CD or a whole side of a cassette or vinyl LP). Its prelude/intro is featured closing out the previous album (1982's Black Metal), tacked onto the last track (Don't Burn The Witch). The prelude and the full song have been mixed together as one complete piece, getting bumped up to almost 25 minutes, and has been featured on compilations that followed over the years. Given how well Black Metal was received here, I think you guys may like it - just try to include the prelude as well. for the complete experience.

[@Svartsejd]

🤘S E P T I C F L E S H🤘 Portrait of a Headless Man (official video) Anubis Prometheus (official video) Virtues of the Beast Vampire from Nazareth Martyr (official video) Sangreal Communion Pyramid God. Sunlight/Moonlight. Five-pointed star. Therianthropy A Great Mass of Death Mad Architect 🤘PLEASE!🤘

[@benbaer3525]

Arch Enemy - We Will Rise + Fields of Desolation (LIVE Tyrants of the Rising Sun)

[@donnysanders5518]

that was awsome!

[@mergenbeen]

You definitely should do a video on Celtic Frost. Circle of the Tyrants or maybe Into the Crypt of Rays. That is totally one of the major first wave of Black Metal bands.

[@SKULLEDBUICK]

Good, great, fantastic, you know the roots of black metal now. Yay. Now do some gotdamn SepticFlesh, my dudes. Portrait Of A Headless Man, 3rd Testament, Vampire From Nazareth, Order Of Dracul, it don't even matter lmao. Just anything at this point.

[@SKULLEDBUICK]

Also, I think the production here is bad, because it's an underground metal band from the early 80s lol. They didn't really have state of the art recording studios at their disposal. At least, I don't think.

[@SKULLEDBUICK]

Also also, you hear a lot of stuff that sounds like this lyrically in thrash metal and some power metal bands (like Hammerfall & Grave Digger).

[@SKULLEDBUICK]

@Ella Watson THAT'S THE WRONG VENOM, YOU DINK. Damn bots.

[@user-so6lt8uv9y]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIKamHl3hb5sbM0 they reacted to Lovecraft's Death. Don't know if you've seen it, but there's the link anyway

[@pariskotsaros]

throw some Rotting Christ in that list

[@valtterivainio6677]

Iron Maiden Paschendale

[@everlastingsaturnalia3096]

Really glad you guys dug this stuff! I left a comment on the last Mercyful Fate video about the history of black metal in case you guys missed it with some song recs. For more Venom you should check out - Live Like an Angel (Die Like a Devil), Teachers Pet, Poison, To Hell and Back. For more like Venom - Sodom (Outbreak of Evil), Midnight (Lust, Filth & Sleaze), Exciter (Heavy Metal Maniacs - Not black metal, it's speed metal, but you'll probably dig it too) Mayhem can be tricky to get into. But also keep in mind the only reason they are as famous as they are is because of the ridiculous shit that went on in Norway in the early 90's. Pagan Fears and Deathcrush are worth a listen I guess

[@attilabarsi8682]

The origins of Black Metal. Venom was legendary, I got to them because of Witching hour via Slayer. Keep on looking these are real gems :)

[@olavrell]

Something worth noting, the version of Freezing Moon by Mayhem that you guys checked out, is a poor recording for a few reasons, most importantly cause it was a demo recording, and not an album release. And the production values of it was low due to lack of funds as much as wanting a certain sound. You would have been much better off checking the version of Freezing Moon that was on actual album release of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. But since people have such and over-enthused love for Dead, who departed this world and the band long before De Mysteriis could see fruition. That version was more requested, despite being somewhat inferior, and the worse option to check out as a newcomer to the band. If you ever were to give Mayhem a new try, I would suggest going with Life Eternal (perhaps even the live-version from when they performed the album De Mysteriis... in it's entirety, which is something they several times a couple years ago,) or De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas from that album. Or something newer like the songs Chimera, Symbols of Bloodswords, My Death, In the Lies Where upon You Lay, or A View from Nihil I & II. Which all will present you with something quite different from what little you've sampled from the band with Freezing Moon.

[@davidvanwagenen8623]

olavrell I’d also recommend the song Watchers by Mayhem. Even though it’s a lot newer, I think it’s a good and fun introduction to Mayhem that’s heavy as hell!

[@olavrell]

I just haven't listened to their last album, and Ordo Ad Chao, never struck me, hence why I omitted any songs from either album. Despite De Mysteriis... being my favourite album by Mayhem, I honestly think I want the song Chimera to be the one they check out.

[@davidvanwagenen8623]

olavrell although I prefer Watchers over Chimera due in part to the the freaky music video, both are great songs that show a different side of Mayhem. So, I don’t care which song they watch. Both are awesome!

[@MetallIstKrieg]

Agreed... studio version off "De Mysteriis..." with Atilla on vocals is superior...

[@edybocman76]

@@MetallIstKrieg just because is the album.version

[@gludeklis]

The only Mayhem video you watched was not the album recording but some awful demo version of "The freezing moon". You should really check out the live show of their all-time classic "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" in Brutal assault festival. This might change your opinion. /watch?v=uNPJwyxPaIc

[@marcusmccabe7712]

Whoa Live in Leipzig is the definitive Mayhem LP. All the other LP's have atrocious vocals that sound comedic.

[@gludeklis]

Live from Leipzig sounds super raw, and that's totally fine. But for me Attila creates a unique atmosphere which no other Mayhem vocalists have done, and that adds a mysterious vibe.

[@adrathemetaloutlaw754]

Classic. Love the band Venom.

[@brendonsturgeon6413]

Imagine if you will, that you were back in time when this came out-there was nothing else like it, the new wave of metal had began, and this band stepped outside of the " norm"

[@sweynskarilsen9105]

Hypocrisy - Adjusting the Sun!!!

[@mightyears8578]

🤘S E P T I C F L E S H🤘 Portrait of a Headless Man (official video) Anubis Prometheus (official video) Virtues of the Beast Vampire from Nazareth Martyr Sangreal Communion 🤘PLEASE!🤘

[@samdoo1433]

Чпуньк Чпуньк one day they'll listen and respond...

[@mightyears8578]

@@samdoo1433 i'm sure they will 🤘😊

[@121manos]

Im suporting you homie. they will listen sometime!!!!

[@mightyears8578]

@@121manos thank you a lot

[@moroii5620]

Underwater garden?

[@soareslopesrhobert]

To complete your knowledge of the Black metal root, you must listen to Hellhammer or Celtic Frost

[@MadProphet666]

Venom did help to start the sub genre . You are right about that. Plus they arent actually satanic and did just use the imagery to help get them noticed and to be more brash and raw to the close minded masses

[@Alucard9853]

Alcest - Écailles de Lune

[@m.a3711]

Holy crap... I've never clicked on a video so fast!

[@gp365y]

Me too holy shit

[@hmpz36911]

Yes I have been desperately waiting for this one. V & S always seem to Pioneer in the most important and yet forgotten about songs.

[@jwelsh84]

While She Sleeps - Silence Speaks The O.G. black metal roots right here with Venom!

[@saradoskapourelakos4309]

you are both extremely correct. Thank you for understanding music.

[@yashshinde8888]

Fear of the dark by Iron Maiden live flight 666.

[@hahmo1292]

Septicflesh - Portrait of a Headless Man

[@1uckywanderboy519]

I've had this song on my radar for like 10 years but never actually listened to it until now - the chorus is pretty poppy and catchy. Good song.

[@munkey7879]

@VinandSori I do believe that you can run a poll on your page. I don’t exactly know how to do it but I’ve seen it done before.