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In my opinion, the classics by Venom are those of Black Metal (the whole album, in fact: Countess Bathory above all)... this At War With Satan pushes the limits of experimentation, with an audacity and imagination matched only by its power and fury... Mantas confirms himself as one of the most creative guitarists in the history of metal...

Man, you really outdid yourself here... I agree with every word in this review, especially when you refer to the main instrument of rock: the guitar, damn it! the axe! the sguitar! that stuff, you know... ;-)))

how did that song go?! what ever happened to the funky race, a generation lost in space?? cute! :-)))

I don't mind this kind of "review": it reminds me a lot of the style used by film critic Mauro Gervasini in his concise snippets in FilmTv: it focuses on a particular detail and from it conveys the essence of the entire film...

Well, I start from the categorical rejection of considering the new wave as something exclusively "intellectual"... but what does intellectual mean? Is Free Money intellectual? Is Blank Generation intellectual? Is Venus intellectual? Is Final Solution intellectual? On the other hand, I wasn't even born at that time (unfortunately), so my perception of the phenomenon is necessarily a posthumous one...

heh heh let's hope I remember, lauretta... ;-D

But how can you say that the Cramps have nothing to do with new wave?? Is new wave just Television and Talking Heads for you?? For me, new wave includes all those bands that between the late 70s and early 80s renewed the musical language (rock or otherwise), inaugurating new genres, whether it's dark, noise, industrial, cow-punk, psycho-billy, funk-punk, synth-pop, etc... The Cramps were among the main innovators of the music scene of the time: it's true that the compositions they played were either covers of old classics or songs clearly inspired by old rock'n'roll, but it's also true that the way they played them, the style with which they interpreted compositions that weren't originally theirs, was unprecedented... they proposed a new way of playing rock'n'roll, a way that set a standard... before the Cramps, where did you hear rock'n'roll so horror?? After the Cramps, psycho-billy became a style, an institution (just listen to some 80s underground USA)... the fact that the Cramps had many elements of traditional rock means nothing: the Gun Club also played blues, but they made Sex Beat, which is one of the anthems of new wave, in my opinion...

What a beautiful film, so reminiscent of November...

In the end, I listened to November... clearly nothing comparable to what the Misfits have done (except for Let The Day Begin, which is practically hardcore)... an atmospheric, horror-themed record, somewhat naïve, somewhat innocent... stylistically unkempt, approximate, uncertain, patched up... holding it all together is (as always) Danzig's voice and "presence"...

But how the hell did I manage to miss this magnificent review?? A nice little history lesson on hard'n'heavy... legendary album, legendary cover... impossible to resist The Price...