VENOM In Nomine Satanas CD (2020)

Without Venom there is no black metal. That's not hyperbole, that's just the historical record. When Conrad "Cronos" Lant and crew put out Welcome to Hell in 1981 and followed it with Black Metal in 1982, they handed a genre its name, its aesthetic, and its entire permission structure for the next four decades of extreme music.

Released in 2020, In Nomine Satanas is a 2-disc digipak compilation that functions as both a career overview and an argument. The argument being that a band this influential, this gleefully foul, and this formative to punk, metal, and the entire dark alternative underground deserves to be in your collection in physical form. Bathory, Hellhammer, early Darkthrone, none of them happen without these Newcastle degenerates deciding that Motörhead needed to be more evil. Essential listening, essential ownership.

2-disc compilation digipak CD. UK. Released 2020.

Fans of: Bathory, Motörhead, Hellhammer, Sodom, Celtic Frost