#92
April 16 1984
Venom
At War with Satan
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Women Leather and Hell
Aaaaarrghh
Oh, Venom. It what can only be seen as a 20 minute moment of Spinal Tapian hubris, the opening track, well, the only track on Side One is a bloated metal mess extolling Satan. It’s confused, epileptic and an almost complete waste of time. They must’ve sat back after laying all those thunderclaps and groans and wails and thought, “Yeah. This is the one. This is gonna put us on the map in a big way!”
Boy would they have been wrong.
There are like 9 songs in this opus and none of them ever get to their point before they are interrupted by another epic idea that goes nowhere. And AND!!! after 20 minutes…it fucking FADES OUT!!! You couldn’t figure out how to end this garbage fire??? Did you think you had more to say but ran out of room?
This is awful.
Side Two is more focused and calls to mind the Venom I remember from Black Metal but it’s just not very good as a collection. I do immensely enjoy the lunatic asylum that is “Aaaaarrghh”.
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