Venom "Metal Black" CD

Metal Black' is a play on their 1982 album, Black Metal.
This is the last album with Mike Hickey on guitars.

To tell you the truth, I wasn't expecting anything from this album, after the disappointing Resurrection who can blame me? add to that the fact that the 90's haven't been to kind to them either.
A few days earlier, I got a chance to get this album, I reluctantly picked it up, thinking that they can't do any worse... and thank the fallen one below, I was right, they didn't, they got back to their long lost (so it seemed) roots, and recorded one hell of an album. Satan himself must have produced this, I tell you the atmosphere is dark and sinister and very reminiscent of their old-school days, it is absolutely killer to say the least, believe me you'll be gasping for more than air when the riffs start buzzing and the drums start pounding.
Everything is right about this album, the drumming is as it should be, tight, thunderous and precise. The riffage owns your soul and the vocals are as vicious as they come: the old school thrashy, rough vocals come through really clearly on this album. The lyrics reveal a twisted sense of humour that Venom have always been renowned for. Take my word for it, they are meant for the depraved section of society. If anyone ever had trouble getting into Venom's earlier works cause of their lack of skill and technique you first need to go to hell... and later buy this album cause they finally sound like a pretty skilled band.
For all Venom fans, this is their best effort since "At War With Satan"or maybe even the godly "BLACK METAL", for all fans of Metal, this is one killer of an album from the guys who put Black and Satan in your Metal, so fucking bow down to the return of BLACK!!!

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