Venom - Deadline Demos ~ Marquee Studios, London, England, UK, March/April 1986 (Studio)

 

Venom
Deadline Demos
Marquee Studios, London, England, UK
March/April 1986
Studio Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP 320kbps
Cover Art Included

01 Deadline
02 Let Loose The Dogs
03 The Chanting Of The Priest
04 Black X-mas
05 Vampyr
06 Fire
07 A Bite Before Evil
08 Love Amongst The Dead
09 Metal Punk
10 Calm Before The Storm (Outro)

Conrad "Cronos" Lant – bass, vocals
Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn – guitars
Anthony "Abaddon" Bray – drums

justdave's notes:
Deadline was to be the follow up album to Venom's Possessed LP. Possessed had not received very good reviews and sales were a little disappointing. With Deadline, Venom had announced they would be going in a different lyrical route. The songs wouldn't be about Satan or Satanism but drugs and other social type themes. The demos were as far as the band had gotten before guitarist Mantas left to go solo. Cronos and Abaddon decided to continue Venom and enlisted guitarists James Clair and Mike "Mykus" Hickey, to do so. Re-wring the songs from Deadline, Venom recorded The Calm Before The Storm. This album also caught flack, for being over produced. As a Venom fan from the start my personal opinion was both albums sounded a little half hearted. Maybe the band needed a break. They broke up after this album and tour cycle instead. James Clair & Mike "Mykus" Hickey joined Cronos' solo band Cronos. Abaddon formed a new line-up of Venom with original guitarist Mantas and Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan of N.W.O.B.H.M. band Atomkraft, but that's another part of the story.

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