Venom - Possessed OWEN GRAY moving the project beyond the

moving the project beyond the insular space of the band’s friends and peers in Southern California into the broader world

an album that goes beyond music to offer a complete universe

LABEL: Nonesuch

Melancholy and poignance permeate the album

The album is reissued as a 180g double LP with a 350g glossy UV sleeve

Venom - Possessed OWEN GRAY moving the project beyond theVenom formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, Venom's first two albums Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982) are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Venoms second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of the extreme metal subgenre of black metal. Often cited by bands such as Metallica, Behemoth,