Artist: VenomTitle: Assault!Genre: Black MetalRelease Date: 2017Duration: 02:25:33Quality: FLAC Stereo 16bit/44,1kHzSize: 1017.09 MBTracks: 6Source: Venom-Assault-(DISS081CDBX)-REMASTEREDBOXSET-6CD-FLAC-2017-WRESix CD box from the metal maniacs. This set contains all the Venom Assault series, Canadian, American, French, Japanese, German and Scandinavian Assault, 42 tracks of pure Venom hell!

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Between 1985 and 1987 a series of Assault EPs were released. These collected studio material along with previously unreleased live tracks. The Assault-series were conceived as a strictly-limited souvenir of each of their overseas jaunts. Venom officially agreed on the Canadian, American and the Japanese Assault. The others were released without the permission from the band.

The most successful release was the Banzai release Canadian Assault which reached gold status in Canada, at 50,000 copies.

VENOM formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, the band's first two albums — 'Welcome To Hell' (1981) and 'Black Metal. Welcome to hell, Welcome to hell, Welcome to hell, Welcome to hell. Leave your souls at his feet, Kiss the flames, Scorn defeat. Die we won't die live, Our choice of difference is what you'll.

Recently I've been picking up the expanded editions of the first four Venom studio albums.Each has a nice stack of bonus tracks and then today I saw something called 'SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET' that looks like a rarities collection.My question is, is this just a comp of all the bonus tracks? I couldn't really tell from just looking at it (and not having the expanded editions in front of me).If I have the expanded editions of 'WELCOME TO HELL', 'BLACK METAL', 'AT WAR WITH SATAN' and 'POSSESSED is there any reason for me to grab 'SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET'?Another question: why at this stage in my life am I all of the sudden buying Venom CDs? This doesn't mean that I'm a fan does it?Well, does it????? I have Welcome to Hell and Black Metal (the expanded editions w/ slipcase). Shockingly, they don't sound compressed at all. I have the old Combat CD of Black Metal, and the reissue actually sounds less harsh (used to have the old Combat of Welcome to Hell, and I recall the same thing).

Nonetheless, Welcome to Hell is simply too historically important to not be considered black metal or even thrash metal. Not quite death metal, we would need the likes of Celtic Frost, the German thrash scene and Slayer before that branch of the tree can hang on its own.

I'm not sure if they attempted to smooth out the sound of the reissues or what.I like the first two Venom albums okay, but I rarely get the urge to listen to them. They did a good job on the reissues though, I wouldn't hesitate to pick them up. I think the major legacy of Venom was being the major inspiration for the Swedish (is that the right counrty? I've not heard one death metal band in my life nor do I feel the need to) Death Metal scene, who took the whole Satanic schtick seriously, while Venom were just doing it for a larf and publicity.if you don't have it, I strongly suggest picking up this WAY awesome book, part crime drama, part anthropological case study, all wickedly interesting, far out pics and medeval satanic imagery plates too. I picked up Welcome to Hell, At War With Satan and Black Metal 2002 remasters with the slipcase. Possessed seems to be reissued the same year but didn't have the slipcase. All have the extra bonus tracks and they sound fine to me.According the booklet in Skeletons in the Closet, it's a companion piece to the expanded reissues of Welcome to Hell, At War With Satan, Black Metal, Possessed and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Essentially a collection of demos, remixes, rarities along with radio and TV promos.I haven't listened to it in quite some time, but it is a good comp to have IMO. I agree that Bathory is ground zero for Scandinavian black metal. But I also think Bathory was very much indebted to Venom. I know Quorthon used to claim he'd never heard Venom before he recorded the first Bathory album, but I find that sort of tough to swallow.I'd give Venom credit for all 'extreme metal' in general - I really don't think death/black/thrash metal would have arisen and evolved the way it did without Venom's influence. Welcome to Hell was just so raw and ugly and over-the-top compared to everything else that was around at the time.it gave the music that extra push over the edge. Motorhead, Priest, and all the NWOBHM bands might have come close at times, but none of those bands ever took it as far as Venom did. I think they opened the doors for bands like Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Bathory, Slayer, Death, etc.

There are 2 songs on Skeletons that weren't included as bonus tracks on the remastered CDs- Sadist (Mistress of the Whip) and Dead on Arrival. They are also on the MMV box along with Senile Decay which was previously only found on an 80s vinyl best of. I'd like to know when these (and the outtakes on the remastered CDs) were recorded. The few other things on Skeletons that aren't found on the remasters (War with Satan w/ spoken intro, Black Metal remix, radio IDs, etc), I could do without. I could also have done w/o the Tour intro tape/Welcome to Hell remix, but that was include on the WTH remaster, but incorrectly labeled as Welcome to Hell demo.

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Click to expand.To my ears, it's a poor mix - too much reverb, and at times the music just gets lost in a blurry wash of sound. I think the drums sound particularly crummy. That said, it's a very atmospheric album, and it probably wouldn't be half as atmospheric if it had a clean, 'good' production. In other words, I like the production, but I still think it sucks. If that makes any sense.I do think it's possible to make a clear, precise black recording without sacrificing any rawness or atmosphere.

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Actually, there's a pretty good example in Emperor's catalog: their 'As the Shadows Rise' EP which was done sometime between Wrath of the Tyrant and In the Nightside Eclipse (those recordings are also available on the True Kings of Norway compilation CD).