Black Metal (Venom album)

Legacy

• In 1998, it was voted the 52nd among the 100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die by the British magazine Kerrang! readers.
• It was included in Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
• The title track was featured on the soundtrack of the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

  Track listing

Covers

• Alchemist covered "Black Metal" for a tribute album.
• Blitzkrieg covered "Countess Bathory" on their album Unholy Trinity.
• Cradle of Filth covered the song "Black Metal" on the special edition of their album Cruelty and the Beast.
• Dark Forest, a black metal band from Brazil, covered the song "Black Metal" on their demo Sodomized by Depraved Goat from 2003.
• Dimmu Borgir covered the song "Black Metal", as the Japanese version bonus track on their album In Sorte Diaboli.
• Heidenland covered "Black Metal" as a hidden track on the 1999 demo cassette Triomftocht voor de glorie van Wodan.
• Hypocrisy did a cover of the song "Black Metal" on the album Osculum Obscenum.
• Isegrim made a cover album called A Tribute to Venom.
• Machetazo covered "Black Metal"; it appears on their compilation Ultratumba.
• Mayhem, whose guitarist and bandleader Euronymous hailed Venom as an important black metal band, covered "Black Metal" on their :de:Pure Fucking Armageddon|Pure Fucking Armageddon demo.
• Messiah Marcolin did a cover of "Countess Bathory".
• Necrodeath made a cover of "Countess Bathory" on their album Draculea released in 2007.
• Obituary covered "Buried Alive" for their greatest hits compilation, entitled Anthology.
• Sigh covered multiple songs off of this album on To Hell and Back: Sigh's Tribute to Venom in 1995, and on A Tribute to Venom in 2008, along with other EPs and splits.
• The Soft Pink Truth, Drew Daniel of Matmos' house side project, covered the title track on his 2014 record Why Do The Heathen Rage?
• Unleashed covered "Countess Bathory" on Shadows in the Deep.
• Vader covered "Black Metal" on their album Necropolis.
• Macabre covered "Countess Bathory" for their album Grim Scary Tales.
• Warpath covered "Black Metal" for their album When War Begins.
• Kazjurol covered "Countess Bathory" for their EP Body Slam.

  Credits

• Cronos – vocals, bass
• Mantas – guitars
• Abaddon – drums
• Keith Nichol - producer, engineer