Venom - At War with Satan (1984) [Reissue] (2005)

 

 At War with Satan is the third album by the British heavy metal band Venom, released in April 1984. It is a concept album that tells the story of a war between Heaven and Hell which the latter side wins. It was touted as Venom's crossover into mainstream music, but failed to do so. Shortly after it went on sale, the HMV record chain withdrew the album from its shelves because of its anti-Christian content.

The inspiration for writing a track filling out an entire side of the record, according to Venom's bass guitarist and vocalist Cronos, came from Rush's 2112 album. "At War with Satan" is centred on a character named Abaddon (which is also the alias of Tony Bray, Venom's drummer), who is the guardian to the gates of Hell. Cronos started writing, in his school days, a story about "how Hell revolts and takes over the heavens and throws God into Hell", a story later fleshed out as "At War with Satan". The title track's imagery and storyline largely evokes the Book of Revelation and John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667–1674), filtered through a postmodern horror movie and pulp aesthetic. The catchy opening riff of the title track derives from the song "Teaser" by Tommy Bolin (1975).

With side A taken by the epic title track, side B offers the "three-minute scorchers" for which the band is best known. The metal journalist Malcolm Dome said that songs such as "Cry Wolf" showed how much Venom had matured in their songwriting without losing their edge. According to the AllMusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia, the album's last track, "Aaaaaarrghh", is "possibly the funniest song ever recorded".

At War with Satan's packaging resembled the leatherbound sleeve of a bookcover. A hundred-page The Book of Armageddon with the entire story of At War with Satan was supposed to be published alongside the album, but it never happened. The Swiss independent distributor Disctrade tried to interest Venom in H. R. Giger's painting Satan I (1977) to no avail. It later became the cover art of Celtic Frost's second album, To Mega Therion (1985).

By the time At War with Satan went on sale, Venom had reached a crossroads in their career. Critics felt that their third album should have propelled them into the heavy metal mainstream, something which failed to materialize. Venom were also being threatened by thrash metal upstarts such as Metallica, who two months before At War with Satan's release were the opening act for Venom's Seven Dates of Hell tour (Roughly a year later Venom also took Slayer and Exodus on their North American Combat Tour). This was Metallica's first European tour, which included concerts in Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium and the Aardschok Festival in the Netherlands.

The record was well received by major music magazines. "Proof positive that Venom are the best heavy metal band in the world", said Melody Maker's Neil Jeffries of the album. "It will definitely go down in Heavy Metal history as the ultimate headbang," claimed a Sounds reviewer of the title track. At War with Satan's entry on the "Where to Start with" section of the Kerrang! site says that this was the "last truly great record the Geordie three would make". Some criticism, though, was directed toward the album's production values, viewed as subpar.

The title track's merits divided critics. In the opinion of About.com's Chad Bowar, "At War with Satan" is at the same time "highly ambitious" and "bloated", but the song was "so over-the-top and so dramatic that it somehow worked" and made the album "an overlooked metal gem".The Allmusic review's tone was harsher: this concept piece was an "ill-advised anomaly", much of it "decidedly crap".

The rise of metal's popularity in the 1980s was paralleled by the political power gained by conservative organisations such as the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). The Christian campaign against the "offensive" content of rock music carried out by certain political groups in America eventually crossed over to the United Kingdom. Venom became one of its early victims: HMV stopped selling At War with Satan in fear of legal action because of Britain's obscenity laws. The PMRC later included the title track of Venom's following album Possessed in their "Filthy Fifteen" list.

 

 

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 -Tracklist:

 Side A

1. At War with Satan     19:56

Side B

2. Rip Ride     03:08
3. Genocide     02:58
4. Cry Wolf     04:19
5. Stand Up (and Be Counted)     03:31
6. Women, Leather and Hell     03:21
7. Aaaaaarrghh     02:24

39:37

 

-Lineup:

 ⛧Cronos : Vocals, Bass
 ⛧Abaddon : Drums
 ⛧Mantas : Guitars.

 

Label: Earmark.

Recorded at Impulse Studios, UK.

Mastered at Utopia Studios, London, UK.

 Production & cover design by Venom.

 

 

 

 

Körgull The Exterminator + Entombed (Maestros de la Muerte Gira 2011) O Túnel, A Coruña (Esp) 09.04.2011

 

 

Unleashed by Joe Bastard as a side project of his one-man band Akerbeltz in 2.005 together with Lilith on vocals, it wasn´t until 2.007 that Mark Wild was recruited to record the first Split-CD together with Drizzt from Empty/Amnion on bass. Once the rehearsings were increasing the stuff, Steel Maniac was recruited as a fix member and with that line-up the first full-length "Dogs Of War" was recorded, increasing the interest of the underground scene and making some memorables gigs around.

Formed in 1987 under the name of Nihilist. Entombed began their career as an early pioneer of Scandinavian death metal which initially differed from its American counterpart by its distinct "buzzsaw" guitar tone. However, by the early 1990s their sound had broadened to include garage rock and other influences. This new style would eventually be described as death 'n' roll.

Signed by Alex Hellid (ENTOMBED)

Necromessiah - Antiklerical Terroristik Death Squad (2007) LP [2008]

 

NecroMessiah was born from the ashes of Frozen Darkness (Italian Black Metal cover band) in the icy days of winter 2002 in Portoscuso, but then they moved to Sassari.

 By May of that year, NecroMessiah recorded their first demo-tape entitled "In Nomine Deus Quad Ecclesias Igne Absumor", a 4 song demo tape with a concept of anti-christianism and blasphemy. 

During the composition of new tracks and some cover songs, the band recruited a new member: NekroFelyam (bass).

By December 2004 they had already recorded and released their first full-length album on Slava Productions. 

NecroMessiah went on to appear at various underground gigs to present their new tracks on stage and soon after Necrowinter and Nekrofelyam had left the band. 

A two-year hiatus followed until finally two new members were recruited to record the 3 song "Goatwar Promo 666" promo CD-R displaying a more Black Thrash approach taken by the band. 

During the summer of 2007 NecroMessiah had unleashed their second album, entitled "Antiklerical Terroristik Death Squad" on Blasphemous Underground Productions as a deluxe inverted cross Digipak CD. 

For 2008 a split 7" EP with Dewarsteiner on "half/half" colored vinyl entitled "The Oath Of Bacco Militia" has been discharged from the cunt of Crush Until Madness Records...

 

 • Discography:

- In Nomine Deus Quad Ecclesias Igne Absumor [Demo] (2003)
- …Instar Gladii In Corporem Cristi (2004)
- GoatWar Promo 666 [Demo] (2006)
- Antiklerical Terroristik Death Squad (2007)
- The Oath of Bacco Miltia [split with Dewarsteiner] (2008)
- Get Ready... [EP] (2009)
- Unleash Disorder [EP] (2012)
- The Last Hope of Humanity... (2013)

 

 

 

 -Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Intro (Vatican Burning)    01:54
2. Atomic Bloodshed    04:14
3. Marching for Hell    02:20
4. Christ-Crushing Black Metal    03:34
5. Terror Squad     03:15

Side B:
6. 666 Necroalkolterrorist     02:45
7. In the Name of God Let the Churches Burn     02:21
8. Fukking Bastard God    02:44
9. Evil Prophets    02:49
10. Total Blasphemy   02:29

28:25

 

-Line up:

 

• NecroManiac : Vocals, Guitars
 • Darken : Drums
 • SGT Baal : Bass.

 

 

 Label: Hells Headbangers Records. 

All copies are pressed on black vinyl only with an illustrious enormous fold-out inverted cross LP size cover. 

Recorded between May & December 2006.

 Mixed: Andrea Giribaldi.

 Cover artwork: Chris Moyen.
Layout: Jackson Lapalma.

 

Venom - At War With Satan (1984) CASS [1986]

At War with Satan is their third album released in April 1984. It is a concept album that tells the story of a war between Heaven and Hell which the latter side wins. It was touted as Venom's crossover into mainstream music, but failed to do so. Shortly after it went on sale, the HMV record chain withdrew the album from its shelves because of its anti-Christian content.

The inspiration for writing a track filling out an entire side of the record, according to Venom's bass guitarist and vocalist Cronos, came from Rush's 2112 album. "At War with Satan" is centred on a character named Abaddon (which is also the alias of Tony Bray, Venom's drummer), who is the guardian to the gates of Hell. Cronos started writing, in his school days, a story about "how Hell revolts and takes over the heavens and throws God into Hell", a story later fleshed out as "At War with Satan". The title track's imagery and storyline largely evokes the Book of Revelation and John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667–1674), filtered through a postmodern horror movie and pulp aesthetic.

With side A taken by the epic title track, side B offers the "three-minute scorchers" for which the band is best known. The metal journalist Malcolm Dome said that songs such as "Cry Wolf" showed how much Venom had matured in their songwriting without losing their edge. According to the AllMusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia, the album's last track, "Aaaaaarrghh", is "possibly the funniest song ever recorded".

At War with Satan's packaging resembled the leatherbound sleeve of a bookcover. A hundred-page The Book of Armageddon with the entire story of At War with Satan was supposed to be published alongside the album, but it never happened. The Swiss independent distributor Disctrade tried to interest Venom in H. R. Giger's painting Satan I (1977) to no avail. It later became the cover art of Celtic Frost's second album, To Mega Therion (1985).

By the time At War with Satan went on sale, Venom had reached a crossroads in their career. Critics felt that their third album should have propelled them into the heavy metal mainstream, something which failed to materialize. Venom were also being threatened by thrash metal upstarts such as Metallica, who two months before At War with Satan's release were the opening act for Venom's Seven Dates of Hell tour (Roughly a year later Venom also took Slayer and Exodus on their North American Combat Tour). This was Metallica's first European tour, which included concerts in Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium and the Aardschok Festival in the Netherlands.

The record was well received by major music magazines. "Proof positive that Venom are the best heavy metal band in the world", said Melody Maker's Neil Jeffries of the album. "It will definitely go down in Heavy Metal history as the ultimate headbang," claimed a Sounds reviewer of the title track. At War with Satan's entry on the "Where to Start with" section of the Kerrang! site says that this was the "last truly great record the Geordie three would make". Some criticism, though, was directed toward the album's production values, viewed as subpar.

The title track's merits divided critics. In the opinion of About.com's Chad Bowar, "At War with Satan" is at the same time "highly ambitious" and "bloated", but the song was "so over-the-top and so dramatic that it somehow worked" and made the album "an overlooked metal gem". The Allmusic review's tone was harsher: this concept piece was an "ill-advised anomaly", much of it "decidedly crap".

The rise of metal's popularity in the 1980s was paralleled by the political power gained by conservative organisations such as the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). The Christian campaign against the "offensive" content of rock music carried out by certain political groups in America eventually crossed over to the United Kingdom. Venom became one of its early victims: HMV stopped selling At War with Satan in fear of legal action because of Britain's obscenity laws. The PMRC later included the title track of Venom's following album Possessed in their "Filthy Fifteen" list.

 

 -Tracklist:

A1. At War With Satan
B1. Rip Ride
B2. Genocide
B3. Cry Wolf
B4. Stand Up And Be Counted
B5. Women Leather And Hell
B6. Aaaaaarrghh!

 

 -Line up:

• Cronos : Vocals, Bass
• Mantas : Guitars
• Abaddon : Drums.

 

 

 Label: PDI – 50.1034, Victoria Ediciones Musicales, S.A. – VMC-181

 Recorded at Impulse Studios, UK.
Mastered at Utopia Studios, London, UK.
Production & cover design by Venom.

 

Morbid - Year Of The Goat [Compilation] (2011)

I.

Followed with a fascination of war, horror and violence, Pelle Ohlin formed a band in the early 80's.

Due to some problems, this band split-up and Pelle made a new band called "Ohlin Metal".

Unfortunately, this band didn't last very long too.

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II.

He met Gehenna (Johan Hagstrom) in a record stores and they decided to form a band called Armageddon.

(only fragments are preserved though).

Few times later, Pelle met Slator (Mats Gonzales) and Anders Gonzales.

In early 1985, the band changes its name to Scapegoat. (logo made by Anders Gonzales).

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III.

Once again, the band met some problems.

In 1986 the band evolved into Morbid :

- Dead (Pelle Ohlin) : singer

- Gehenna : guitar

- Klacke (Marcus Klack) : guitar

- Slator : Bass

- Gehenna's friends : drum.

Later, Dr. Schitz (Jens Näsström) joined the band and replaced Slator on bass, TG (Torbjörn Gräslund Tege) took Klacke's position as guitarist.

Drutten (Lars-Göran Petrov) joined the band as drummer.

First live appearrances of Morbid startedin spring of 1987 especially at Birkagarden and Ultrahuset.

Summer of 1987, Napoleon Pukes (Ulf Andreas Cederlund) replaced TG on guitar.

On December 5th 1987, Morbid entered the studio to record their legendary demo : December Moon.

Around 1987/1988, Gehenna left the band and before the end of January Dead moved to Norway and joined Mayhem.

John Scarisbrick joined Morbid as singer and Zoran as guitarist.

In 1988 they recorded the demo : Last supper.

Unfortunately, without Dead and Gehenna it was not really Morbid anymore...

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IV.

In  the fall of 1990, Dead, Dr. Schitz and Gehenna finally got together for a rehearsal, their first for almost three years.

They planed to record a single which would includea new song called : "I love the dead" and a new version of "Deathexecution".

Dead was very serious to reform Morbid and was probably to leave Mayhem.

Unfortunately, he commited suicide on April 8th 1991.

(from : Year of the Goat).

 

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''We know'' (!?):

 

-  One (or more) "Ohlin Metal" tape(s) exists.

- A scapegoat logo

- Few Morbid rehearsals

- A lot of live recordings

- Few live videos.

The first band logo was inspired by a comic called "The tombs of Dracula", created in 1972.

On May 7th, 2011, important musicians within the Swedish extreme metal scene, including Erik Wallin, Peter Stjärnvind, Erik Danielsson, Erik "Tyrant" Gustavsson, and David Blomqvist, performed a tribute to Morbid entitled "Mörbit" in memory of Dead at Kafé 44 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Taken from:  https://pelleohlinmorbidmayhem.blogspot.com

-Tracklist:

 Disc 1 - Likvaka
1. My Dark Subconscious     04:41
2. Wings of Funeral     03:47
3. From the Dark     06:00
4. Disgusting Semla     03:19
5. My Dark Subconscious     04:38
6. Wings of Funeral     04:07
7. Tragic Dream / From the Dark     08:33
8. Citythrasher     01:07       instrumental
9. Deathexecution     04:08
10. Disgusting Semla     02:09
11. Outro     00:41

Disc 2 - Dödsryck
1. Intro - Crucifix Masturbation     03:12
2. My Dark Subconscious     04:46
3. Deathexecution     04:40
4. Wings of Funeral     03:38
5. Citythrasher (Schnabelkäse)     01:19       instrumental
6. Necrodead     03:02
7. Tragic Dream     01:16       instrumental
8. Disgusting Semla     01:50
9. From the Dark     06:33
10. Wings of Funeral     04:02
11. Deathexecution     04:58
12. From the Dark     08:05
13. Necrodead     03:10
14. Disgusting Semla     02:32
15. Wings of Funeral     03:41
16. Citythrasher     01:25       instrumental
17. Deathexecution     05:05
18. My Dark Subconscious     04:50
19. Necrodead     03:13

 

 -Line up:

• Slator: Bass (1985-1986)
• Dr. Schitz: Bass (1986-1988)
• Sandro Cajander: Drums (1985-1986)
• Drutten: Drums (1987-1988)
• Gehenna: Guitars (1985-1988)
• Klacke: Guitars (1986-1987)
• TG: Guitars (1987)
• Napoleon Pukes: Guitars (1987-1988)
• Zoran Jovanovic: Guitars (1988)
• Johan Scarisbrick: Vocals (1988)
• Dead: Vocals (1985-1988).

 

  

Label: Century Media Records.

 Issued in a 19x14x2cm double disc DVD style book w/ slipcase and a 36 page booklet, glued to the inside of the book spine.
The booklet includes liner notes from the author of the book Swedish Death Metal, rare pictures, an interview from Slayer Mag XX, notes on the live performances, hand-written lyrics, a photo copy of Dead's first letter to Metalion of Slayer mag, etc.

All tracks re-mastered at DMS, Marl, Germany.

Disc 1:
Tracks 1 to 4 taken from the "December Moon" demo (1986).
Tracks 5 to 11 are rehearsal tracks.

Disc 2:
Tracks 1 to 9 recorded live October 23rd 1987 at Birkagården in Stockholm, Sweden.
Tracks 10 to 14 recorded live April 26th 1987 at Ultrahuset in Stockholm, Sweden.
Tracks 15 to 19 recorded live November 22nd 1987 at Ultrahuset in Stockholm, Sweden.

 

 

 

 

 

Pelle Ohlin/Per Yngve Ohlin was born a cold winter day of January 16th of 1969 in Västerhaninge (Sweden).
 Son of Anita and Lars Ohlin, he was the eldest child of three children including a sister (Anna), a brother (Anders) and a half-brother (Daniel).
Pelle was an unpredictable and perseverant child in all what he did.
He was fascinated by war, horror, comics and had a particular humor.
He had a rough childhood especially when the family split-up.
Also, he was not understood with other children, they didn't understand who he was and were easier to reject or even to attack him.
This was the reason of his famous "near-death experience", it occurred in the Autumn 1982 when Pelle was beating by a gang at school.
He changed school after this and met friends who shared his interest in music.
Music, horror interest and fascination for the morbid going deeper and deeper and decided to form a band.

On 8 April 1991 he committed suicide.
He was buried at Österhaninge Begravningsplats in Stockholm.

 

► - Lyrics of "Burn my coffin" (Marduk - Those of the unlight) were written by Dead.

► - Among band members, only Necrobutcher went to the Pelle's funeral.

► - Varg sent shotgun shells as a Christmas gift, including the shells Pelle used for his suicide.

► - According to Ulf Cederlund, the name "Morbid" was a reference to Celtic Frost's "Morbid tales" Ep.

► -  Pelle was fascinated by horror stuff, black humor, etc... but he was also fascinated by medieval history.

► - Morbid - Disgusting Semla : A Semla is a traditional sweet roll associated with lent and especially shrove Monday.
It consists of a cardamom-spiced wheat bun which has its top cut off, and is then filled with a mix of milk and almond paste, topped with whipped cream.
The cut-off top serves as a lid and is dusted with powdered sugar.

► - Necrobutcher has one of the most important Mayhem collection, including several videos with Pelle.

► - Before to use "Dead" as nickname, Pelle was called "Geten", the Swedish word for "Goat".
If you look at the first page of "Year of the goat " you can read : Tillägnad Geten.
Translation : Dedicated to Goat.

► - Morbid - Wings Of Funeral. The intro was taken from the movie "Evil Dead" - 1981.