it's comforting to know that even if they're from the very depths of hell, they still have the common courtesy to refer to us as " ladies and gentlemen ".

I saw Venom, Slayer & Exodus at The Hollywood Palladium in 1985. It was every thrash metal-head’s wet dream. About half way into Venom’s set, Cronos proceeded to do a bass solo for 10 mins that consisted of making his bass sound like a revving motorcycle while forking his tongue at the audience. The set ended with an encore of ‘Witching Hour’ where they completely destroyed their equipment, full smashing of guitars through their stacks, drums thrown everywhere and continued even after the house lights went on. There was actual electrical smoke rising up from their broken gear afterward.

Venom always seemed to me like Motorhead had a little brother who swore one day he was going to be faster, louder, and meaner.

Guy: "so how much fog do you need?" Venom: "YES."

"From the very depths of hell." So they are from Newcastle, then.

gotta love when the fog is so thick the guitarist disappears

When Venom came out, there was nobody else that sounded like them. A truly groundbreaking band.

I don't listen to Venom every night, but when I do the neighbors do, too!

I still love Venom after 40 years.

I just Love the unsynchronized hairshaking at 2:22 So wild and raw.

Im 13 and i got into metal when i was 8. Venom is my favorite band of ALL TIME ( thank you dad)

I used to skip school and sniff glue whilst listening to the Welcome To Hell album. Character building.

If Venom did not exist it would be necessary to invent them.

Looking back at my teenage years, i had a quite the record collection. Venom, Celtic frost, king diamond, mercyful fate, motorhead, diamond head, accept and hellhammer were just some of the great names i had in my collection. What time to be a teenager!

80’s Metal is the epitome of mankind can’t get better than that

It's hard to believe Cronos was only 18 or so at the time.

mercyful fate...venom...bathroy....hell hammer....celtic frost

Without Venom, there would be no Slayer, no bathory, no Celtic frost, No death/doom metal today.

My favourite band of all time, 30 years of this sound..the best

Classic Venom! Had a back patch on a jacket "Welcome to Hell" in 1985, had also the three albums. Loved Venom in the 80's, still do!

1981, WHEN HEAVY METAL WAS OODLES OF FUN!

My first black metal was Venom back in 1984 welcome to hell. They made every other metal sound like pop music.

This tour was absolutely KILLER!!! (Venom, Slayer and Exodus)

Most fucking metal intro ever.

When I was a kid in the 80’s. this band scared me. 🤣🤣🤣

The inventors of extreme metal. No one was doing stuff like this in 80-81

Welcome To Hell is easily the most important album for extreme metal.

Still sounds better then most of today's MeTaL.. And I even wasn't a Venom fan back then.. my bassist drove me crazy with his venom... 😛🤘

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. FROM THE VERY DEPTHS OF HELL. *VENOM*

This is like a time capsule from 30+ years ago, I must have watched this 20 times on VHS!

The smoking machine worked fine that night.

one of my favorites of all time.28years I listened to this epic band

This used to scare parents back in the day.

Now THAT"S the way to open a show. Great job!

Awesome! I forgot how crazy cool these guys were, and how much fun we all had going to see them live. It was a great time in music.

Stage manager: we have this recording of screams, but for a few more quid we can torture real people. Venom: Yes.

The amount of fog coming out of those machines is as epic as this song.

HELL BREAKS LOOSE WOOOOOAAARRRGHHHHHHH

Come hear the moon is calling, The witching hour draws near, Come hear the bell is tolling, Mortals run in fear, Prepare the altar now and hear the virgin cry, Hold fast the sacrifice, For now it's the time to die, All hell breaks loose, Hell's breaking loose. Unveil the pentagram, And feel the demons lust, Come watch the holy men, Who look on in disgust, Come taste blood, And feel the heat of Satan's breath, Look in the sky's and see, The warriors of death, All hell breaks loose, Hell's breaking loose, Witching hour. Our work is now complete, The blood runs fast and free, And Satan takes his bride, And cry's of blasphemy, All hell rejoices at the child, That she will bear, And Satans only son, Shall be the worlds despair, All hell breaks loose, Hell's breaking loose, Witching hour.

A lot of noise coming from just three lads.

Fuckin A...Venom had the good shit before everybody else.

This freaked some folks out in the early 80's. I just call it a good time.

Without Venom Black metal would have never existed

Venom is my life!!! FOREVER!!!

I absolutely love the Welcome to Hell album because it just so fucking raw, thumbs up if you agree.

That riff at 4:05 is the foundation of all black metal.

The over saturated colours are a nod to horror movie master Dario Argento.

At 13 years old in early 1982 a local high-school radio station (WPHS) played a Venom song called Warhead. I Immediately picked up the phone and called my guitar player who managed to catch the last 4 minutes of the song. I say last 4 minutes of the song because the next day my guitar player purchased "Welcome to Hell". Only after playing the album did we realize that the local high school station previously was playing Warhead at a slower speed. I recon they must have had a single and was playing it at 33.4 vs 45 rpm.

Only a bleak and grim city like Newcastle could raise a band like Venom!

2:15 to 2:19 is possibly the greatest single moment in the history of extreme music. Pure genius.

One of my favorite bands of all time! We used to play this song with my old band from the eighties Massattack!

This is the band that made me go Black Metal in '79... Their first albums were an absolute BLAST. And they STILL RULE. Regie Satanas, Regie Venom.

Will forever be the best version of this sing

Love it, saw Venom at Hammersmith back in the day.

Back in the 70’s I was at the same school as Cronos in North Shields, that was when he was still Conrad Lant. He seemed like a quiet sort back then, certainly nothing like what you see in this video.

I love the amount of "smoke" they have on stage.

I liked the part where cronos shouts "Witching Hour"!!!!!!!

This fucking video is so badass. I have the original VHS of this.

As a youth man in HS I grew up with Venom, and was fantastic... Nowadays I love venom. I'm 51

Back in the mid 90s (95?) I saw slayer and machine head perform this at the state theater in Kalamazoo, Michigan and it just established in my mind then how much they appreciate this! Awesome song! Awesome band of musicians!

Venom definitely rules the galaxy!

These guys were metal pioneers.

I can't believe these guys slipped under my radar for so long. Venom is fucking awesome!

In the good ol´Moral Panic days in the early eighties they showed a few seconds of this show on Swedish tv. That was the talk of the schoolyard for weeks.

Stunning and intense music, brutal and revolutionary and unforgettable.

Brilliant memories. When anybody could be a metal god and Venom were metal gods.

Man i remember this like it was yesterday,wen my neibor kid brought over this album,the dude had spiked wrist bands the hole 9 yards,84,n that was it,i was hooked,rip kam,thanx

Venom is a awesome group i use to listen to them all the time good 80's metal

A friend of mine found their first record in a shop under the letter E. The clercs can't read the logo correctly and put it in the E shelf instead of V. They invented everything, the sound, the horror logos and the stage outfits of Black 'fuckkin' ' Meddal!

Man I took these guys for granted back in the 80's

metal was so much fun back then!!

Venom started it all!

I saw this back in the 80s. I was on mind altering soda and it was unbelievable. My eyes were wide open.

One of my first metal bands I listened to.

Bruh,my uncle remembers this band as satanic motorhead

Just wow! This was amazing!

This song RULES!!!! Classic VENOM!!! Kick-ass! :)

I first saw this video back in 1985 on The Ultimate Revenge VHS release. Had already sold my soul to Venom before that with the purchase of Black Metal and Welcome To Hell. And here I am, all of these years later, telling complete strangers of my love for this NWOBHM-but-not-NWOBHM band!

Definitely a classic!

one of the best metal bands ever hells breaking loose

Oka! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN..... ¡¡VENOM!!🎸♪

Reminds of watching old 80's sword play movies like "Hawk The Slayer". Hell yeah!!!!

With my 54years old you was my GENERATION..

One of the best songs and bands ever..

Love that stuff they wear (& the music too)

simply POWERFUL| LOVE VENOM SINCE 1982

So cool man. I saw this on Swedish TV, Norrsken in 84. Hell I was 12-13 an couldn't believe it...I had heard Maiden and Motorhead as the hardest stuff, but this??? Legend stuff

2:24 Me and my friends when we change the music at the party

What a delightful Christmas tune!😊

Love the video. Venom is awesome. Thank you.

Bathory are true fathers of black metal🖤🐺🖤🐺

My favorite song of Venom

Classic black metal!!!

What a clowns! But a lot of fun! Undeniable. Saw this vídeo for the first time , probably in 1986 or 87. Great memorys!

OMG Thanks a lot, Venom! For everything

I grew to respect this version of the song even more once I watched the movie Suspiria by Dario Argento. This is the single greatest masterpiece in the hsitory of "extreme" metal. Pure genius.

LOL, at 3:37 That stash is hilarious. That dude is sooooo evil.

Happy new year to VENOM, 2019'!!! This was playing top decibel here at midnight!!!

venoms intros are the creepiest and best love them

I remember when Venom first came out. Parents and religious figures were terrified! I laughed my a** off! How can you take these guys seriously? They are just fun! Cronos knew they couldn't play, but we didn't care. They started something that went on to be copied and eventually evolved through bands like Slayer and Metallica.