November 2022 - The Witching Hour

Without Venom none of this would be possible. The extreme metal scene, hell, maybe the entire extreme music scene wouldn't be possible without them. Venom were mainly credited to push the musical boundaries and bringing forth the raise of black metal. They even coined the term with their second album, Black Metal . It has now been the 40th anniversary this month of the release of that very same LP. This is a celebration of not only that album but some artists that have been highly influenced by the band such as black metal group Acheron to extreme gothic metal band Cradle of Filth to even industrial rockers The Electric Hellfire Club to name a few. Aside from this Witching Hour celebrating Venom 's 40th anniversary of this landmark album we have another anniversary that was touched upon. This month was also the 30th anniversary of darkwave/industrial artists Das Ich with their album Die Propheten . Brazilian label Wave Records had the ...