Artist: VENOM
Album: WELCOME TO HELL RE-ISSUE (DIGI)

Release date: 1981/ 2016
EAN/UPS: 0803341506282
Media type: CD

Welcome to Hell is the 1981 debut album by the British heavy metal band Venom. The sound of the album was very noisy and rough, perhaps in part because the band thought they were recording a demo when they recorded the album over a period of only three days. Geoff Barton stated in his 1981 five-star review of Welcome to Hell the album had "the hi-fi dynamics of a 50-year-old pizza" and it "brought a new meaning to the word 'cataclysmic'". However, those comments compared it to other heavy metal from the early eighties.

While the term "black metal" may have not been created until Venom's second album, it can be noted Welcome to Hell contains common speed metal elements, and it has a decidedly darker and doomed feel, a characteristic of black metal.

All songs written and composed by Bray/Dunn/Lant.

TRACKLIST:

1. "Sons of Satan" 3:38
2. "Welcome to Hell" 3:15
3. "Schizo" 3:34
4. "Mayhem With Mercy" 0:58
5. "Poison" 4:33
6. "Live Like an Angel (Die Like a Devil)" 3:59
7. "Witching Hour" 3:40
8. "One Thousand Days in Sodom" 4:36
9. "Angel Dust" 2:43
10. "In League With Satan" 3:35
11. "Red Light Fever" 5:14

Bonus tracks in 2002/ 2016 rerelease by Castle/Sanctuary

12. "Angel Dust (Lead Weight version)" 3:03
13. "In League With Satan (7" version)" 3:31
14. "Live Like an Angel (7" version)" 3:54
15. "Bloodlust (7" version)" 2:59
16. "In Nomine Satanas (7" version)" 3:29
17. "Angel Dust (Demo)" 3:10
18. "Raise the Dead (Demo)" 3:29
19. "Red Light Fever (Demo)" 4:51
20. "Welcome to Hell (Demo)" 4:57
21. "Bitch Witch (Outtake)" 3:08
22. "Snots Shit (Outtake)" 2:06

LINE-UP:

Conrad "Cronos" Lant – bass guitar, vocals
Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn – guitar
Tony "Abaddon" Bray – drums