Seventh essential album is from one of the most influential metal bands ever.
Venom Welcome to Hell 1981
Like Raven they hailed from Newcastle, but whereas Raven like most bands of their ilk were proficient musicians, Venom bordered on being just f*uckin useless, so to hide this deficiency, they played super fast to cover up their inabilities. Lemmy accused them of faking it, Henry Rollins called them and their stage show just hilarious and they even had portable stand up fans on-stage to make their hair blow, hell! they even made Manowar look good! As for the production on this album, it didn`t just sound like a demo, but it sounded like a really bad demo....so what the f*uck is this band even doing on this list! Well, they almost single-handedly created the extreme metal genres of thrash, black and death metal and inspired thousands of bands. So just take the album for what it is and that is a fast, furious piece of metal with evil lyrics to die for. Hell!.....this band had some real balls to get up on-stage and do what they did, and for that reason alone they`re essential.