Venom Inc. (Venom) - Hellfest Summer Open Air ~ Clisson, Loire-Atlantique, France June 16, 2023 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Venom Inc.
Hellfest Summer Open Air
The Temple Stage
Clisson, Loire-Atlantique, France
Friday June 16, 2023
arte Concert HDTV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover Art Included

Lineage: HDTV Broadcast > Unknown Process > Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor > Stereo Wave 16bit/44,1khz > Goldwave v6.80 (editing) > Trader's Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps

01 - Witching Hour
02 - Black Metal
03 - Die Hard
04 - Leave Me In Hell
05 - Countess Bathory
06 - The Seven Gates Of Hell
07 - There’s Only Black
08 - Buried Alive
09 - Don’t Burn The Witch
10 - In Nomine Satanas
11 - Welcome To Hell
12 - Warhead
13 - Rip Ride
14 - Heaven’s On Fire
15 - Bloodlust
16 - Sons Of Satan

Total Playing Time: 01hr 07mn 46sc

Mantas (Jeffrey Dunn) – guitars
Demolition Man (Tony Dolan) – bass, vocals
War Machine (Jeramie Kling) drums

justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to adjust some track marks, add a fade in on shows beginning, delete about 3 minutes of croud noise at shows end, and then add a fade out. The DVD had lossy audio so the waves were encoded to MP3 320kbps using Trader's Little Helper.

Venom Inc. consists of former members of the Newcastle New Wave Of British Heavy Metal GODS!! VENOM!! Yes I'm a huge fan!! I collect everything Venom, even shitty sounding audience recordings (like Black Sabbath, Ozzy and Deep Purple). I own all of their studio and live releases. To this day they are one of my favorite bands. My Thrash Band Psychosis (MI) used to play a medley of "Buried Alive/Raise The Dead" at every show.

This brings me to the feud between Venom & Venom Inc. Venom still has founding bassist Conrad "Cronos" Lant but no other original members. Venom Inc. has founding guitarist Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn, founding drummer Anthony "Abaddon" Bray and Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan from what I call the Prime Evil line-up in the band. I kind of feel each band has a right to exist. I loved the albums released with the Prime Evil line-up. I do love the new Cronos front Venom's latest album as well. With this show you get some classic Venom, one new Venom Inc track but no Prime Evil era tracks. I'm good with that but would like to hear more in the future.

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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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Venom - At War With Satan [Demo] xx-xx-1983 (Studio)

Venom
At War With Satan [Demo]
Studio Recording
xx-xx-1983
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cheap Cover Art Scans Included

01 - At War With Satan (Demo)

Cronos bass, vocals
Mantas guitar
Abbadon drums

The story goes, that after a gig in America, Venom accompanied a group of fans to a party. They of course got very drunk and asked the group if they wanted to hear a demo of the title track to their next album. The fans of course wanted to here what the next LP was going to sound like. So the tape was played, then somehow stolen from the drunken Venom. The album At War With Satan was to be Venom's statement that they could seriously write music. The album was to be a Progressive Rock styled concept album about the war between Satan's Legions & God's Angels. A lot of fans worried that the essence of Venom that we loved would be lost to a Prog-Rock nightmare like Kiss' Music From The Elder. (I love that album too damn it!). The album was pure Venom. White noise and all. Most critics loved it, most fans consider it the last great album of the original line-up. The some what disappointing Possessed would follow, and sounded the death bell of the original line-up (too me it sounded half finished). Line-up changes, law suits and actually some great music would follow.

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Venom - Santa Monica Civic, Center Santa Monica, CA 03-28-1986 (SBD)

Venom
Santa Monica Civic Center
Santa Monica CA
March 28, 1986
Soundboard Recording
MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

01 - Black Metal
02 - Nightmare
03 - 7 Gates Of Hell
04 - The Chanting Of The Priests
05 - Teacher's Pet / Poison / Teacher's Pet
06 - Buried Alive / Love Amongst The Dead
07 - Flytrap

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

Actual Set List

Too Loud For The Crowd (X)
Die Hard (X)
Black Metal
Nightmare
Countess Bathory (X)
7 Gates Of Hell
The Chanting Of The Priests
Teacher's Pet - Poison - Teacher's Pet
Buried Alive / Love Amongst The Dead
Flytrap (+)
In Nomine Satanas (X)
Welcome To Hell (X)
Warhead (X)
Satanachist (X)

Bloodlust (X)
Witching Hour (X)

(X) Not included on this version
(+) Fades out

Heavy Metal Roots & Branches Post #6

Newcastle England's Venom crawled out of the underground during the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. Formed to be the most extreme band that they could be, Cronos, Mantas, & Abaddon took the Satanic Metal banner and waved it high. Productions values were purposely low fi and speed was the motto. The band was a huge influence on the young underground metal scene. Venom is credited for giving the Black Metal genre it's name which was the name of their second LP. This recording comes fro the American Seven Dates Of Hell Tour for the Possessed LP. After this tour Mantas would leave the band and would be replaced by the twin guitar line-up of Mike "Mykus" Hickey and James Clare. The Calm Before The Storm LP was released by that line-up. After Calm Before The Storm Venom disbanded, only to reform with Mantas, Abaddon, Tony "The Demolition Man" Dolan (ex Atomcraft) on bass and vocals and second guitarist Al Barnes. More line up changes followed as well as a classic line-up reunion, until Venom settled on Cronos, Stuart "La Rage" Dixon on guitars, and Danny "Dante" Needham on drums. We also have a band called Venom Inc. that is comprised of Mantas, Abaddon, & Demolition Man touring as well

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Venom - Bloodstock Open Air Festival ~ Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, England, UK 08-12-2016 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Venom
Bloodstock Open Air Festival
Ronnie James Dio Stage
Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, England, UK
August 12, 2016
HDTV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover Art Included

Lineage: Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor v4.5.5 > Goldwave v 6.31 (editing) > Traders Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps

01 - Bloodlust
02 - Welcome to Hell
03 - Countess Bathory
04 - Fallen Angels
05 - From the Very Depths
06 - Rip Ride
07 - Hammerhead
08 - The Evil One/Resurrection
09 - Pedal to the Metal
10 - Grinding Teeth
11 - Warhead
12 - Rise

total playing time: 52mn 43sc

Conrad "Cronos" Lant – bass, vocals
Stuart "La Rage" Dixon – guitars
Danny "Dante" Needham – drums

justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to re-edit some track marks, and raise the volume, no EG or noise reduction was used. I used Traders Little Helper to encode the waves to MP3 320kbps due to the DVD having lossy audio.

As is the case with a lot of Classic Metal Bands there are 2 Versions of Venom now. This version with bassists vocalist Conrad "Cronos" Lant the only original member. The other is Venom Inc. featuring original guitarist Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn and original drummer Anthony "Abaddon" Bray with the Prime Evil era bassist vocalist Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan. It could be confusing to fans which version of the band is playing in their town but both line-ups are great live.

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Venom - Hellfest 2015 ~ Clisson, France, 06-20-2015 (FM) DVD Audio Rip

Venom
Hellfest 2015
Clisson, France
June 20 2015
HD-TV Webcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover Art Included

01 Intro / Rise
02 Bloodlust
03 Die Hard
04 Long Haired Punks
05 Grinding Teeth
06 Buried Alive
07 The Evil One
08 Welcome to Hell
09 One Thousand Days In Sodom
10 Countess Bathory
11 Warhead
12 Black Metal
13 Witching Hour

Conrad "Cronos" Lant – Bass guitar, Lead Vocals
Stuart "La Rage" Dixon – guitar
Danny "Dante" Needham – drums

justdave notes:
Audio ripped using DVD Audio Extractor 4.5.5, no additional work (ie remixing or volume adjustments) was done to the files.

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Venom - WDR Rockpalast ~ Rock Hard Festival, Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany 05-22-2015 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Venom
WDR Rockpalast
Rock Hard Festival
Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen, Germany
May 22, 2015

TV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover Included

01 Rise
02 Hammerhead
03 Bloodlust / Black Flame (Of Satan)
04 Die Hard

05 Long Haired Punks
06 Buried Alive
07 The Evil One
08 Welcome To Hell
09 Antichrist
10 Countess Bathory
11 Flight Of The Hydra

12 The Death Of Rock N Roll
13 Grinding Teeth
14 Pedal To The Metal
15 Warhead

16 Black Metal
17 In League With Satan

18 Fallen Angels

19 Witching Hour
20 Interview With Cronos

total time: 1hr 22mn 59sc

Venom 2015:
Conrad "Cronos" Lant - vocals, bass
Stuart "La Rage" Dixon - guitar
Danny "Danté" Needham - drums

The band that gave Black Metal it's name is still kicking ass. The new line-up doesn't play as sloppy live as the classic line-up  did but don't worry they are still Venom.

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