Music video by Venom performing Witching Hour. (P) Sanctuary Records Group. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by Sanctuary Records Group.
it's comforting to know that even if they're from the very depths of hell, they still have the common courtesy to refer to us as " ladies and gentlemen ".
Well Sir, What you have to know is that in Hell we all have class, and you are very wellcome to enter. You will have a 50 year old Glanfiddich on sterile glass here.
I saw Venom, Slayer & Exodus at The Hollywood Palladium in 1985. It was every thrash metal-head’s wet dream. About half way into Venom’s set, Cronos proceeded to do a bass solo for 10 mins that consisted of making his bass sound like a revving motorcycle while forking his tongue at the audience. The set ended with an encore of ‘Witching Hour’ where they completely destroyed their equipment, full smashing of guitars through their stacks, drums thrown everywhere and continued even after the house lights went on. There was actual electrical smoke rising up from their broken gear afterward.
I was there and it was Merciful Fate. King Diamond was doing that ritual nonsense with little altar. Exodus was at the Pomona Valley Auditorium. (I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure) I was at both. I remember Cronos saying "Soon, America will be Black Metal Country!" and everyone starting chanting SLAY-ER SOOOO Loud. Am I remembering this right? I was pretty wasted. I got jumped by The L.A.D.S. in the parking lot at the Palladium that night. Did you go to all the Fender's Shows too?
@pauliescott : The concert I attended was Slayer, Venom and Exodus at Hollywood Palladium 1985. Mercyful Fate was not on the bill. I never made it to Fenders Ballroom. Wish I did.
@@richmoreno9938 yep my bad. The show with Merciful Fate was Motorhead and Exciter. The Pamona show was Dark Angel. I went to all the shows but I was loaded for most of the 80's. Were you at the venom Slayer and Dark Angel show at the palladium?
@pauliescott : No, wasn’t at that show, but saw Slayer and Dark Angel at Reseda Country Club in ‘85. Also saw Dark Angel play again in 1985, in a tiny warehouse in Van Nuys, with one of the most brutal slam pits ever.
with that east-germany style moustache it might be wise to get the fuck outta the picture every now and then so people don't laguh them selves to death.
Your a poser! I read a comment from someone saying" roses are red ,violets are blue when I listen to SLAYER the neighbors do to! Be more original you fucking poser🖕
Metal church and other bands were too synchronized, saw them with Metallica in 87 or 88 on acid and seemed like a Broadway production where as venom is just chaos wish I saw venom back then.
@@angelripper_420Only Cronos can still do this in 2023 brother. Cronos: Eeevil? Crowd: "In league with satan". It's the Venom song everyone sings on. lol. Love it.
Sometes I wonder if the reason I don't have a lick of common sense is because I possibly sniffed a shit ton of glue when I was really little and probably just got stupider and stupider without noticing
Looking back at my teenage years, i had a quite the record collection. Venom, Celtic frost, king diamond, mercyful fate, motorhead, diamond head, accept and hellhammer were just some of the great names i had in my collection. What time to be a teenager!
man i love hellhammer, and accept kickstarted my love for heavy metal, one of the first riffs i learned was balls to the wall, i probably cant even play it anymore lmao it's been so long
semiserioussam: freedom of speech, assembly and the right to reproduce should be re-evaluated for those sluts and those stocky, 4'2" muscular, weird talking guys are even more irritating. Working out is good but if you're only 1 meter 40 it looks weird.
Back in the 70’s I was at the same school as Cronos in North Shields, that was when he was still Conrad Lant. He seemed like a quiet sort back then, certainly nothing like what you see in this video.
To have a Venom back patch in 1985 with full pentagram and goats head would scare the shit out of people. I wore my Venom tshirt back then and would get stares. Even the light weight metal heads were afraid.
@@taylortaylor7634 actually it was not recorded live it is just the bloodlust studio track and a rerecorded version of witching hour most probably from the Black Metal album sessions and they made this videoclip with these tracks.
At 13 years old in early 1982 a local high-school radio station (WPHS) played a Venom song called Warhead. I Immediately picked up the phone and called my guitar player who managed to catch the last 4 minutes of the song. I say last 4 minutes of the song because the next day my guitar player purchased "Welcome to Hell". Only after playing the album did we realize that the local high school station previously was playing Warhead at a slower speed. I recon they must have had a single and was playing it at 33.4 vs 45 rpm.
real science I’m sure they’d very much appreciate that comparison. they’re all huge fans of Rush. 2112 was their inspiration to make At War With Satan so long
@@user-cb1yb9sk8x Venom only named a genre by accident but nothing of their sound is what became Black Metal. So only three things Venom contributed to "Black Metal": pseudonyms, genre name and satanic lyrics but not the sound. Bathory were the Black Sabbath of Black Metal's sound...
LOL. I love how people ascribe all kinds of virtuous intents to the results obtained by Venom. This one with Argento is like when people state that the sound of their early albums recorded at Impulse was intentional. In actuality the albums sound the way they do because nobody involved knew what the hell they were doing. The colors in this video likely have a similar genesis.
Come hear the moon is calling, The witching hour draws near, Come hear the bell is tolling, Mortals run in fear, Prepare the altar now and hear the virgin cry, Hold fast the sacrifice, For now it's the time to die, All hell breaks loose, Hell's breaking loose. Unveil the pentagram, And feel the demons lust, Come watch the holy men, Who look on in disgust, Come taste blood, And feel the heat of Satan's breath, Look in the sky's and see, The warriors of death, All hell breaks loose, Hell's breaking loose, Witching hour. Our work is now complete, The blood runs fast and free, And Satan takes his bride, And cry's of blasphemy, All hell rejoices at the child, That she will bear, And Satans only son, Shall be the worlds despair, All hell breaks loose, Hell's breaking loose, Witching hour.
A friend of mine found their first record in a shop under the letter E. The clercs can't read the logo correctly and put it in the E shelf instead of V. They invented everything, the sound, the horror logos and the stage outfits of Black 'fuckkin' ' Meddal!
In the good ol´Moral Panic days in the early eighties they showed a few seconds of this show on Swedish tv. That was the talk of the schoolyard for weeks.
Xogroroth666 venom did that before they named the band venom in 1978. It means nothing, when you record something (and they recorded everything later then venom). I can't even find a video from them in 79. only from 1982.
I first saw this video back in 1985 on The Ultimate Revenge VHS release. Had already sold my soul to Venom before that with the purchase of Black Metal and Welcome To Hell. And here I am, all of these years later, telling complete strangers of my love for this NWOBHM-but-not-NWOBHM band!
Yo...i was at that show...mantas did not play that night. He supposedly was under quarentine in Canada. Which explains the lsck of venoms love performance on the video...one of my most memorable shows...alpng wirh metallica anthrax and raven at the roseland ballroom
Ahhh, 15yo,. smoking weed for the second time when I heard this,, hiding in the stormwater pipe with a "ghetto blaster" still listening 38 years later, fuck yeah 🤘🤘
Back in the mid 90s (95?) I saw slayer and machine head perform this at the state theater in Kalamazoo, Michigan and it just established in my mind then how much they appreciate this! Awesome song! Awesome band of musicians!
Man i remember this like it was yesterday,wen my neibor kid brought over this album,the dude had spiked wrist bands the hole 9 yards,84,n that was it,i was hooked,rip kam,thanx
Among my first Metal memories. I actually saw this live performance on a VHS copy from my local mom & pop video rental / variety store. Pioneers. I was hooked and bought Welcome to Hell on vinyl. I remember it was this and Madonna’s Like a Virgin tour. :P
Kinda the first black metal song. It’s got the tremelo picking, and the chorus progression during the ‘hell breaks lose’ is pretty black metally. Plus that ending. Very atmospheric
Thanks to Tipper Gore, my mother threw out my first Venom album. The next time we drove down the highway, i threw 2 cartons of her smokes out the window.
What I wouldn't give to have been around in the 80s, to have been able to see these epic bands in concert. Does anyone else agree that the world today is LONG overdue for a metal renaissance?
I was - I saw lots of thrash shows in LA during the mid-80's, including Exodus and Slayer opening for Venom at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1985. Awesome show!
@@hinjurock70 I'm so envious! It's kind of disappointing how despite the 80's aesthetic being a big trend now (especially with movies like Ready Player One, Stranger Things, It, etc) that metal hasn't made a big comeback. I want to go to a concert in a massive, Madison Square Gardens sized venue and get my ass kicked in a giant mosh pit goddammit!
@@Thegr8MC Thrash was underground during the 80's - bands like Slayer, Exodus, Testament, Overkill, etc. played 500 to 2000 seat venues, not huge arenas and stadiums like Madison Square Garden. Even Metallica wasn't at that level of popularity until the Black Album. Glam/pop metal bands like Motley Crue, Poison, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, etc were what was huge in the 80's.
@jonstiffer4994 Priest and Madien were at their peak popularity during the early-to-mid 80's - from 1986 to 1989 it was all glam as far as popular mainstream hard rock went.
OMG - when you listen to "modern" Black Metal - you can hear the echoes of VENOM - the guitar riffs, the drums - even the vocals to an extent - these guys really were pioneers and creators of a genre - so ahead of their time. Back then it all seemed a bit "cheesy" and "cliche" - but now it all makes sense......
I have to watch a couple Venom videos whenever i start feeling depressed, they're hilarious. I love the random screams, explosions and everything else in the beginning, there's no rhyme or reason for it. Then the guitar player starts his solo with disjointed arpeggio tapping like an imitation EVH. ", Just play fast, doesn't matter if it doesn't match up with the rest of the music."
Lmao me too. I don't if it was intentional or not, but they were fucking hilarious as shit. I don't know why any parent would be afraid of them. They're so fucking camp. They're like the guys that didn't really bother getting too good at their musicianship, but invested a lot of money in stage presentation and gear. I fucking love them for that. I legit do love their music but you can't deny their comedic value
@@obscurebandfan I was a founder member of Venom, it was just fun to play but the way it went it became a fuckin chore and i really didn't fit in and kind of drifted away, we parted company fairly quickly lol. i do remember we talked about not being very good musically so lets put on a good show, well the show part is there ;)
Loreley Metal Hammer Festival 1985... after Metallica, the Headliner: VENOM! It was complete UNREAL, ABBADON throned 4 or 5 meters above the stage; the rest was just a dream...! BLACK METAL!!
it's comforting to know that even if they're from the very depths of hell, they still have the common courtesy to refer to us as " ladies and gentlemen ".
Well Sir, What you have to know is that in Hell we all have class, and you are very wellcome to enter. You will have a 50 year old Glanfiddich on sterile glass here.
David Flower 🤣
@Midnight Lightning Radio Hahaha
Wow such maturity
They're english gentleman
I saw Venom, Slayer & Exodus at The Hollywood Palladium in 1985. It was every thrash metal-head’s wet dream. About half way into Venom’s set, Cronos proceeded to do a bass solo for 10 mins that consisted of making his bass sound like a revving motorcycle while forking his tongue at the audience. The set ended with an encore of ‘Witching Hour’ where they completely destroyed their equipment, full smashing of guitars through their stacks, drums thrown everywhere and continued even after the house lights went on. There was actual electrical smoke rising up from their broken gear afterward.
Was it this? th-cam.com/video/MROyGsNszcw/w-d-xo.html
I was there and it was Merciful Fate. King Diamond was doing that ritual nonsense with little altar.
Exodus was at the Pomona Valley Auditorium. (I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure) I was at both.
I remember Cronos saying "Soon, America will be Black Metal Country!" and everyone starting chanting SLAY-ER SOOOO Loud.
Am I remembering this right?
I was pretty wasted.
I got jumped by The L.A.D.S. in the parking lot at the Palladium that night.
Did you go to all the Fender's Shows too?
@pauliescott : The concert I attended was Slayer, Venom and Exodus at Hollywood Palladium 1985. Mercyful Fate was not on the bill. I never made it to Fenders Ballroom. Wish I did.
@@richmoreno9938 yep my bad.
The show with Merciful Fate was Motorhead and Exciter.
The Pamona show was Dark Angel.
I went to all the shows but I was loaded for most of the 80's.
Were you at the venom Slayer and Dark Angel show at the palladium?
@pauliescott : No, wasn’t at that show, but saw Slayer and Dark Angel at Reseda Country Club in ‘85. Also saw Dark Angel play again in 1985, in a tiny warehouse in Van Nuys, with one of the most brutal slam pits ever.
Venom always seemed to me like Motorhead had a little brother who swore one day he was going to be faster, louder, and meaner.
They might not have but their children were certainly faster and meaner!
It's like when you mix "the chase is better than the catch" by motorhead with judas priest's "Exciter"
and useless....
@@juliancromwell6909 at least they created the whole extreme metal
@@l.i.v.v4835 yep.. it was fun back in the day,,, then came Slayer,,,,
When Venom came out, there was nobody else that sounded like them. A truly groundbreaking band.
The real birth of Black Metal, Even Mayem will admit that.
Back in the day, as Punks, we really loved Venom, Motorhead, and Maiden, and were welcome among their fans, at their gigs
I remember when they opened for Herman's Hermits.
@@FariesWearBoots1970I don't get why people are calling Venom black metal. Its pure thrash but with satanic lyrics.
@@mlody969Venom called their own music Black Metal,it was also the title of their second album.
gotta love when the fog is so thick the guitarist disappears
with that east-germany style moustache it might be wise to get the fuck outta the picture every now and then so people don't laguh them selves to death.
@wlod nat "wlod nat"
Mantas is the boss he does what he wants 😅
Black Magic!
... 😅
Guy: "so how much fog do you need?"
Venom: "YES."
All the fog.
The only prescription is more fog
Gay comment, dude.
posers
🤣🤣🤣
Im 13 and i got into metal when i was 8. Venom is my favorite band of ALL TIME ( thank you dad)
You have a great dad
Welcome to the metal world my friend
Your Dad got you into Venom. When I was your age, after walking 3 miles barefoot in the snow, I had to hide my Venom cassettes from my Dad.
Run away.
@SomboonCM just admit that you want him to run into your arms so you can see his lil booty you m0leßter.
I don't listen to Venom every night, but when I do the neighbors do, too!
Go Team Venom
Your a poser! I read a comment from someone saying" roses are red ,violets are blue when I listen to SLAYER the neighbors do to! Be more original you fucking poser🖕
Like one does not smoke alone, one does not Venom alone.
Way to go, brother:
Rock on!
How original
@@serpentinefire921 kill Satan for mommy?
I just Love the unsynchronized hairshaking at 2:22 So wild and raw.
Metal church and other bands were too synchronized, saw them with Metallica in 87 or 88 on acid and seemed like a Broadway production where as venom is just chaos wish I saw venom back then.
I still love Venom after 40 years.
We all do brother we all do 🤘👊👍👈
@@angelripper_420Only Cronos can still do this in 2023 brother.
Cronos: Eeevil? Crowd: "In league with satan". It's the Venom song everyone sings on. lol. Love it.
Fuck yes! Im 53 and got into Venom at 12. I scared the Motley Crue fans at school. Haha!
@@Fire_ov_RenewalGood times. Hehe
I wish I could say the same. It’s been a mere 30 years for me.
I used to skip school and sniff glue whilst listening to the Welcome To Hell album. Character building.
We've all been there.
Sometes I wonder if the reason I don't have a lick of common sense is because I possibly sniffed a shit ton of glue when I was really little and probably just got stupider and stupider without noticing
@@onutube6392 crystal clear krylon (see ghosts) paint the best in my opinion.
@@onutube6392lmaooooo. 😅😅😅
We did car starting fluid.
Looking back at my teenage years, i had a quite the record collection. Venom, Celtic frost, king diamond, mercyful fate, motorhead, diamond head, accept and hellhammer were just some of the great names i had in my collection. What time to be a teenager!
man i love hellhammer, and accept kickstarted my love for heavy metal, one of the first riffs i learned was balls to the wall, i probably cant even play it anymore lmao it's been so long
You said had. Where's that collection now?
"From the very depths of hell."
So they are from Newcastle, then.
yup, same thing.
Fuckin' Geordie Shore. I say hanging's too good for them.
semiserioussam: freedom of speech, assembly and the right to reproduce should be re-evaluated for those sluts and those stocky, 4'2" muscular, weird talking guys are even more irritating. Working out is good but if you're only 1 meter 40 it looks weird.
Hahaha
Newcastle Utd.!!!!
80’s Metal is the epitome of mankind can’t get better than that
If Venom did not exist it would be necessary to invent them.
On the eighth day Satan created Venom lol
RIP Warrell Dane!
Thank iron maiden
@@guddergo7116 lol @ the fact you have quoted iron maiden. even more lol @ the fact you have quoted iron maiden only
not sure ! lol
It's hard to believe Cronos was only 18 or so at the time.
we all been 18 someday
Dude looks way older and way buffer for a 18 year old
@@user-ol7bt4wp1j Today 18-yrs old look like babies and sissies, that's why 18-yrs old Cronos from the '80 looks older and far more masculine.
Back in the 70’s I was at the same school as Cronos in North Shields, that was when he was still Conrad Lant. He seemed like a quiet sort back then, certainly nothing like what you see in this video.
Yeah all these "I love Lucifer he's my daddy" types in these bands are just actors
My first black metal was Venom back in 1984 welcome to hell. They made every other metal sound like pop music.
Classic Venom! Had a back patch on a jacket "Welcome to Hell" in 1985, had also the three albums. Loved Venom in the 80's, still do!
To have a Venom back patch in 1985 with full pentagram and goats head would scare the shit out of people. I wore my Venom tshirt back then and would get stares. Even the light weight metal heads were afraid.
This tour was absolutely KILLER!!! (Venom, Slayer and Exodus)
this is from a video recorded in the theatre in Jesmond in 1982, not from the 1985 tour :)
@@taylortaylor7634 actually it was not recorded live it is just the bloodlust studio track and a rerecorded version of witching hour most probably from the Black Metal album sessions and they made this videoclip with these tracks.
My favourite band of all time, 30 years of this sound..the best
Mark Serainidis kii
Peppino Dicorrado what about judas priest? huh
hornswoggle lover39 crap metal
hornswoggle lover39 punk rockhardcore grunge
hornswoggle lover39 venom what a fuckn joke
The inventors of extreme metal. No one was doing stuff like this in 80-81
Exactly.
1981, WHEN HEAVY METAL WAS OODLES OF FUN!
People were scared back then
Hilarious
_"...but your kids will gonna love it"_
th-cam.com/video/ZzAgacFBr48/w-d-xo.html
Still is
2020, WHEN IT STILL IS!!
This is like a time capsule from 30+ years ago, I must have watched this 20 times on VHS!
When I was a kid in the 80’s. this band scared me. 🤣🤣🤣
#metoo 😱😰😬
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Me too a friend played Black Metal and Buried Alive for me.
Yup. Same here! Then I heard Possessed and the scare factor went up a notch. Metallica and Slayer didn't seem all that nuts after all
Still sounds better then most of today's MeTaL.. And I even wasn't a Venom fan back then.. my bassist drove me crazy with his venom... 😛🤘
@@juancarloshuapaya7014 WTV you Genius!😏👎
True metal today sucks so hard, only screaming and noise guitar.....
Welcome To Hell is easily the most important album for extreme metal.
Most fucking metal intro ever.
Without Venom, there would be no Slayer, no bathory, no Celtic frost, No death/doom metal today.
Doom? I’ll agree with death metal and black metal (they fuckin’ created it, after all), but they have nothing to do with doom metal
There would, it just would've gone in a slightly different direction.
There be none of all of this without Sabbath
@@joeyuzwa891 probably he meant death/doom, not trad doom.
Necroctulhu ok that’s fair, but they weren’t as directly responsible for it as they were for black, death, and thrash
mercyful fate...venom...bathroy....hell hammer....celtic frost
Black fuckin' Metal. \m/
Sinister King slayer was also called black metal, so add them
Tormentor, Sarcofago
Sodom! Fucking witching metal!
Who's Roy?
Now THAT"S the way to open a show. Great job!
The amount of fog coming out of those machines is as epic as this song.
This freaked some folks out in the early 80's. I just call it a good time.
The smoking machine worked fine that night.
It is not smoking machine, that is real fog
one of my favorites of all time.28years I listened to this epic band
At 13 years old in early 1982 a local high-school radio station (WPHS) played a Venom song called Warhead. I Immediately picked up the phone and called my guitar player who managed to catch the last 4 minutes of the song. I say last 4 minutes of the song because the next day my guitar player purchased "Welcome to Hell". Only after playing the album did we realize that the local high school station previously was playing Warhead at a slower speed. I recon they must have had a single and was playing it at 33.4 vs 45 rpm.
A lot of noise coming from just three lads.
Ah I found a british in the comment section
@@ChristianVBlue3 and I found a Mexican lol
The Rush of Black metal!
Ben Rosteski *venom would like to know your location*
real science I’m sure they’d very much appreciate that comparison. they’re all huge fans of Rush. 2112 was their inspiration to make At War With Satan so long
Stage manager: we have this recording of screams, but for a few more quid we can torture real people.
Venom: Yes.
As a youth man in HS I grew up with Venom, and was fantastic... Nowadays I love venom. I'm 51
Without Venom Black metal would have never existed
Fact.
Nah, Bathory
@@marccavalera9180 Bathory couldn't exist without Venom too, 'cause Venom are the pioneers of that Black Metal move
nor slayer or Metalica
@@user-cb1yb9sk8x Venom only named a genre by accident but nothing of their sound is what became Black Metal. So only three things Venom contributed to "Black Metal": pseudonyms, genre name and satanic lyrics but not the sound. Bathory were the Black Sabbath of Black Metal's sound...
Awesome! I forgot how crazy cool these guys were, and how much fun we all had going to see them live. It was a great time in music.
2:15 to 2:19 is possibly the greatest single moment in the history of extreme music. Pure genius.
Venom is my life!!! FOREVER!!!
Well you really need to get a life you sound fk pathetic
This used to scare parents back in the day.
Corpsie still does
They fuckin scared me !!Loved it.
Ikr n now I'm a granddaddy
Corpsie it was a different time hip hop scares me more then this
This album was illegal in 15 states and numerous countries
Brilliant memories. When anybody could be a metal god and Venom were metal gods.
Fuckin A...Venom had the good shit before everybody else.
Will forever be the best version of this sing
The over saturated colours are a nod to horror movie master Dario Argento.
and to sisters of mercy; they still have that lighting style to this day !
Argento was good over saturation of blood was bitchen
LOL. I love how people ascribe all kinds of virtuous intents to the results obtained by Venom. This one with Argento is like when people state that the sound of their early albums recorded at Impulse was intentional. In actuality the albums sound the way they do because nobody involved knew what the hell they were doing. The colors in this video likely have a similar genesis.
Only a bleak and grim city like Newcastle could raise a band like Venom!
Distiller71 Lots of fog there in Newcastle?
What the UK does to a mf:
12 years late. Some might say hell broke loose.
HELL BREAKS LOOSE WOOOOOAAARRRGHHHHHHH
I saw this back in the 80s. I was on mind altering soda and it was unbelievable. My eyes were wide open.
Come hear the moon is calling,
The witching hour draws near,
Come hear the bell is tolling,
Mortals run in fear,
Prepare the altar now and hear the virgin cry,
Hold fast the sacrifice,
For now it's the time to die,
All hell breaks loose,
Hell's breaking loose.
Unveil the pentagram,
And feel the demons lust,
Come watch the holy men,
Who look on in disgust,
Come taste blood,
And feel the heat of Satan's breath,
Look in the sky's and see,
The warriors of death,
All hell breaks loose,
Hell's breaking loose,
Witching hour.
Our work is now complete,
The blood runs fast and free,
And Satan takes his bride,
And cry's of blasphemy,
All hell rejoices at the child,
That she will bear,
And Satans only son,
Shall be the worlds despair,
All hell breaks loose,
Hell's breaking loose,
Witching hour.
lol waste of time..you should write out all the notes for the guitar and bass, and the rhythem patterns for the drums
as long as you bought their merch all is good
That riff at 4:05 is the foundation of all black metal.
Gus Bauer no doubt 🤘🏻
Thats the true Mayhem
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
FROM THE VERY DEPTHS OF HELL.
*VENOM*
Best. Intro. Ever.
I love the amount of "smoke" they have on stage.
Venom definitely rules the galaxy!
A friend of mine found their first record in a shop under the letter E. The clercs can't read the logo correctly and put it in the E shelf instead of V. They invented everything, the sound, the horror logos and the stage outfits of Black 'fuckkin' ' Meddal!
These guys were metal pioneers.
Troy Adamson Sure!!! Bands like Slayer and Metallica liked them and still do
They still are...
The True pioneers of metal where Black Sabbath.
They've outlasted Slayer.
They sure fuckin were.
Stunning and intense music, brutal and revolutionary and unforgettable.
In the good ol´Moral Panic days in the early eighties they showed a few seconds of this show on Swedish tv. That was the talk of the schoolyard for weeks.
metal was so much fun back then!!
Venom started it all!
hailrealfknmetal By all do you mean the fog overdose epidemic?
With my 54years old you was my GENERATION..
One of my favorite bands of all time! We used to play this song with my old band from the eighties Massattack!
one of the best metal bands ever
hells breaking loose
This is the band that made me go Black Metal in '79...
Their first albums were an absolute BLAST.
And they STILL RULE.
Regie Satanas,
Regie Venom.
+Xogroroth666 the band recorded their first demo in 1980 and their first album in 1981, so that must be impossible.
+shag stars They toured England in +79, doing few small events.
Don't be a wiseguy.
Xogroroth666 venom did that before they named the band venom in 1978. It means nothing, when you record something (and they recorded everything later then venom). I can't even find a video from them in 79. only from 1982.
So what the fuck does that have anything to do with the fact I saw them in '79???
Serious moronic idiocy from you there.
+Xogroroth666 You're just a fucking liar. End of story.
I first saw this video back in 1985 on The Ultimate Revenge VHS release. Had already sold my soul to Venom before that with the purchase of Black Metal and Welcome To Hell. And here I am, all of these years later, telling complete strangers of my love for this NWOBHM-but-not-NWOBHM band!
Yo...i was at that show...mantas did not play that night. He supposedly was under quarentine in Canada. Which explains the lsck of venoms love performance on the video...one of my most memorable shows...alpng wirh metallica anthrax and raven at the roseland ballroom
I can't believe these guys slipped under my radar for so long. Venom is fucking awesome!
Love it, saw Venom at Hammersmith back in the day.
I still love my VHS "Live at Hammersmith" Fuckin' awesome!
Hammersmith in London is like the Rainbow bar and grill in L.A. It's the place to be!
Cronos is an incredible songwriter.. he has that power within him. Venom rules.. Thank you Cronos.
Ahhh, 15yo,. smoking weed for the second time when I heard this,, hiding in the stormwater pipe with a "ghetto blaster" still listening 38 years later, fuck yeah 🤘🤘
I liked the part where cronos shouts "Witching Hour"!!!!!!!
MYM РУЛИТ
Dave Mustaine I liked the part where you let me back in the band
Marty Friedman HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Dave Mustaine Impossible, you are a born again christian.
They sound like a bunch of dumbass devils.Worshipping the dumb ass devil.
Venom is a awesome group i use to listen to them all the time good 80's metal
This fucking video is so badass. I have the original VHS of this.
Man I took these guys for granted back in the 80's
Just wow! This was amazing!
One of my first metal bands I listened to.
Back in the mid 90s (95?) I saw slayer and machine head perform this at the state theater in Kalamazoo, Michigan and it just established in my mind then how much they appreciate this! Awesome song! Awesome band of musicians!
Dude I was at the same show !
One of the best songs and bands ever..
I absolutely love the Welcome to Hell album because it just so fucking raw, thumbs up if you agree.
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Oh dude, Welcome To Hell is their absolute best!
@@richmoreno9938 LOL
@@ytr3488 lol lol lol lol dickheay
Hell yeah it's straight up coll
Bruh,my uncle remembers this band as satanic motorhead
He's not wrong
Venom certainly did "borrow" a lot of their sound from Motorhead....
Which in and of itself, ain't a bad thing.
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Man i remember this like it was yesterday,wen my neibor kid brought over this album,the dude had spiked wrist bands the hole 9 yards,84,n that was it,i was hooked,rip kam,thanx
Among my first Metal memories. I actually saw this live performance on a VHS copy from my local mom & pop video rental / variety store. Pioneers. I was hooked and bought Welcome to Hell on vinyl. I remember it was this and Madonna’s Like a Virgin tour. :P
This song RULES!!!! Classic VENOM!!! Kick-ass! :)
2:24 Me and my friends when we change the music at the party
What a delightful Christmas tune!😊
Kinda the first black metal song. It’s got the tremelo picking, and the chorus progression during the ‘hell breaks lose’ is pretty black metally. Plus that ending. Very atmospheric
Legion Rise! Jamming Venom since i was 16, im 50 now...
Definitely a classic!
For me , at this time: The hardest, heaviest and darknest... Venoms legions raise again.
Thanks to Tipper Gore, my mother threw out my first Venom album. The next time we drove down the highway, i threw 2 cartons of her smokes out the window.
What I wouldn't give to have been around in the 80s, to have been able to see these epic bands in concert. Does anyone else agree that the world today is LONG overdue for a metal renaissance?
I was - I saw lots of thrash shows in LA during the mid-80's, including Exodus and Slayer opening for Venom at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1985. Awesome show!
@@hinjurock70 I'm so envious! It's kind of disappointing how despite the 80's aesthetic being a big trend now (especially with movies like Ready Player One, Stranger Things, It, etc) that metal hasn't made a big comeback. I want to go to a concert in a massive, Madison Square Gardens sized venue and get my ass kicked in a giant mosh pit goddammit!
@@Thegr8MC
Thrash was underground during the 80's - bands like Slayer, Exodus, Testament, Overkill, etc. played 500 to 2000 seat venues, not huge arenas and stadiums like Madison Square Garden. Even Metallica wasn't at that level of popularity until the Black Album. Glam/pop metal bands like Motley Crue, Poison, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, etc were what was huge in the 80's.
@@hinjurock70 Maiden and Priest were pretty big too.
@jonstiffer4994
Priest and Madien were at their peak popularity during the early-to-mid 80's - from 1986 to 1989 it was all glam as far as popular mainstream hard rock went.
My favorite song of Venom
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Venom as well as Venom Inc are the Almighty Gods of all unholy Black Metal, they started the whole scene, true pioneers
OMG - when you listen to "modern" Black Metal - you can hear the echoes of VENOM - the guitar riffs, the drums - even the vocals to an extent - these guys really were pioneers and creators of a genre - so ahead of their time. Back then it all seemed a bit "cheesy" and "cliche" - but now it all makes sense......
I have to watch a couple Venom videos whenever i start feeling depressed, they're hilarious. I love the random screams, explosions and everything else in the beginning, there's no rhyme or reason for it.
Then the guitar player starts his solo with disjointed arpeggio tapping like an imitation EVH. ", Just play fast, doesn't matter if it doesn't match up with the rest of the music."
Lmao me too. I don't if it was intentional or not, but they were fucking hilarious as shit. I don't know why any parent would be afraid of them. They're so fucking camp. They're like the guys that didn't really bother getting too good at their musicianship, but invested a lot of money in stage presentation and gear. I fucking love them for that. I legit do love their music but you can't deny their comedic value
@@obscurebandfan I was a founder member of Venom, it was just fun to play but the way it went it became a fuckin chore and i really didn't fit in and kind of drifted away, we parted company fairly quickly lol. i do remember we talked about not being very good musically so lets put on a good show, well the show part is there ;)
@@obscurebandfan I watched couple more recent videos. Thankfully they decided to start wearing shirts at some point prior.
THE GODS.this band created metals BEST genre
Loreley Metal Hammer Festival 1985...
after Metallica, the Headliner: VENOM!
It was complete UNREAL, ABBADON throned 4 or 5 meters above the stage; the rest was just a dream...!
BLACK METAL!!
venoms intros are the creepiest and best love them
This band started it ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ben Watson By that I assume you mean fog.