I find this whole Venom thing, a kind of romantic metal notion of supposedly thinking something as grassroots sounding as Venom, should be seen as something almighty in the annals of metal.
Firstly if low fidelity recordings and black metal hadn't made the impact that it did, I doubt people would be going on about how great Venom were. Secondly most of the bands that were influenced by Venom in the thrash, death and black metal genres were superior anyway. Thirdly I'm not really into a band that sounds like it recorded their album in the back bedroom, at least Manilla Road sounded like theirs had been done in a basement.
Finally, unless you have the volume turned up high you ain't hearing **** when it comes to Venom as the production is that bad. I don't dislike the band my any means, I just think they're the perfect example of a band rising to an exalted status in retrospect, much like say the Velvet Underground did.
Saying this though, I always pretty much dig "Countess Bathory".
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