Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, Venom's first two albums—Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982)—are considered a major influence on …

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Madness Stalking the night Feeding fast on my prey Draining the life 'Till the dawn of the day Drinking and sucking Th Do you know any background info about this track? "Bloodlust" is perhaps my favorite of the A-sides.

Man, Venom was really on a roll for the first couple years.

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You'd be hard pressed to find another metal band with such a strong run of non-album singles (usually I leave that the singles game up to punk, but Venom did it surprisingly well for a metal band).

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The Bloodlust single was released by Neat Records in August of 1982, a couple months before their second L.P.

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This single was not any more important than the dozens of other releases just like it, but it happens to contain two of my favorite Venom songs so it seemed appropriate to review it, here.

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/ Madness / Stalking the night, feeding fast on my prey / Draining the life 'till the dawn of the day / Drinking and sucking, the blood rushing sweet / Heart

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Bloodlust in his eyes In his eyes In his.

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“In Venom we wanted to be the devil, we wanted to be the vampires!” Well, it doesn’t get more vampiric than their essential non-album single Bloodlust .

I'll admit, I have a soft spot for when a singer calls out the name of the guitarist before a solo, and this is possibly my favorite example in all of music, closely followed by the mellow "rock me, Joe" in "Monkey Gone To Heaven. This is Cronos at his most menacing, he sounds like a man possessed. However, doing so has a corrupting effect on the symbiote, causing it to become increasingly bloodthirsty, cruel, and feral.

The furious "Lady Lust" or the extraordinary "Manitou" with its mystical atmosphere, the straight "Die Hard" or the sinister "The 7 Gates of Hell" must be mentioned in this context.

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"There existed a lot of reasons why I appreciated Venom at the early stage of their career.