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"At War With Satan" is the third album by the great metal band Venom, released way back in 1984. This album, as you all know, along with the surprising "Welcome To Hell" and the magnificent "Black Metal", is part of the beautiful initial trilogy of the wicked English trio from Newcastle. The historic lineup consisted of the malevolent Cronos on vocals and bass, Mantas on guitar, and Abaddon on drums.
Venom have the privilege and merit of having marked an entire genre, a stylistic current, with the title of their album, ("Black Metal").
The band’s success exploded during the full N.W.O.B.H.M. period, but they set themselves apart from all the others thanks to their desire to extreme their sound and their style in general. Venom greatly weighed down their sound, which was rather raw, hard, and wild, and began to deal with occult themes. Their fast and extreme musical style, the sulfuric and ungraceful voice of Cronos, and their dark themes influenced many famous bands like Slayer, Possessed, Sodom, Cradle Of Filth, Darkthrone, Celtic Frost, Immortal.
The album "At War With Satan" achieved great success among critics and fans, the band's sound is slightly matured, while remaining raw and fast, and all the songs keep the album at fairly high levels. The opener is the very long and devastating title track, with its twenty minutes of pure evil. The song presents many rhythm variations, with the band hammering their instruments, Cronos with his screaming and desperate voice extolling his rites, supported by a terrifying rhythm section of Abaddon and Mantas.
Venom certainly do not make these twenty minutes useless and boring... Truly a great track, which alone is worth the purchase of the album!
The following "Rip Ride" and "Genocide" are deadly thrash outbursts that recall the style of some pieces from "Welcome To Hell", like "Angel Dust" or "Sons Of Satan". "Cry Wolf" is a track that can be compared to the heaviness of Motorhead.
"Stand Up (And Be Counted)" and "Women, Leather And Hell" are decent songs that fortunately do not lower the quality level of the album, while the concluding track is "Aaaaaarghh", which already from the title, you can deduce with what rage the band concludes their third work.
"At War With Satan" is a phenomenal work for all the rest of the subsequent extreme metal.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Manitou (03:02)
Across infernal wastelands
Many miles of sunburnt Hell
Tribes are scattered limbs
And dust all laying as they fell
Open lies the challenge to all
Warriors now men
Let the spirits guide the winds
Until Manitou ascends
Manitou
Manitou
Manitou
Manitou
Watch the unseen burial
Eclipse the blazing skies
Feast the wings of death
With Manitou the soul shall vie
Distant beats the wardance
Echo screams out liberty
Patience stalks the crow
White man's scalp brings victory
Manitou
Manitou
Manitou
Manitou
Mighty be the powers
Of the old medicine man
Whispers of his raindance
Flow across the desert sands
Guardian of the elder spirit
Summoning the storm
Awaiting his arrival
Manitou of flesh is born
Manitou
Manitou
Manitou
Manitou
03 Rip Ride (03:09)
Run like hell, in Hell
The deadly race begins
Cyanide, suicide
No prayers or foolish whims
Tonight we'll fight
With glory in our veins
Can't stop us now
Our evil always will reign
The master switch is set
And we must guard the only key
Rip ride
Satan's speed, our speed
Incarnate pure alive
light up the night
Were living on a wire
We choose you loose
Nobody body catches fire
Were free you'll see
We live by our desires
Riding in the air nocturnal
Living free
Rip ride
Rip ride
Run like hell, in Hell
The deadly race begins
Cyanide, suicide
No prayers or foolish whims
Tonight we'll fight
With glory in our veins
Can't stop us now
Our evil always will reign
The master switch is set
And we must guard the only key
Rip ride
04 Genocide (02:58)
Genocide
Standing in the wings
The reaper waits to play his part
Fear drains the blood
From every pure human heart
The final word is spoken
A lovers last embrace
No distance between life or death
The two are face to face
Take heed the golden dawn
Genocide
Genocide
A prayer from the sinner
For he repents for his soul
Hell becomes his destiny
For heaven is his goal
Sinner, death deceiver
Heathen, disbeleiver
Genocide the cure of mankind
Armageddon patiently decides
Death unveils his gown
The place is truly on fire
You'll see no light
With genocide
Life or death it used to be
But now there is no choice
The blackened skies are filled
With cries of every nations voice
The clouds of death are forming
The judgement day is here
No mercy for the innocent
No time for even fear
The golden dawn turns black
Genocide
Genocide
No place to hide
With genocide
05 Cry Wolf (04:19)
Placed in the wilderness, naked and cold
The night draws the warmth from my flesh
Howls in the distance
The wolves they catch my scent
They yearn for my blood warm and fresh
But I....
Cannot run, I cannot hide
I'm moments old, yet terrified
Snarling breath is on my face
I am damned in this place
Morning breaks the evening darkness
Daylight sings so loud
Father holds my in his arms
And laughs for he is proud
'All is well' my mother cries
A kiss for me her child
But at night my heart turns black
And calls me to the wild
In the night where the wolf-bane grows
In the night when the full moon glows
Cry wolf...
Alone in your room
By the light of the moon
Your glory is shining so bright
You prey for the day
Oh show me the way
The devil takes over tonight
It's too late, night is here
The time that you dread
The time when you loose all control
Your bodies in pain
You cry in vein
Satan takes over your soul
Cry wolf...
Even a man who's pure of heart
He says his prayers by night
Bane from a wolf when the wolf bane grows
And the moon's full and bright
I cannot resist their call
It strengthens as I age
To the pack to join the feast
And fear immortal rage
Never can I live the life
Of every normal child
Forver I must answer
To the call of the wild
The call of the wild
06 Stand Up (And Be Counted) (03:32)
We are the tyrants
Messangers of Satan
We pledge you all
Raise your hands
This is the solstice
Hail legions arise
We'll raise the roof
Touch the skies
Were praying for
The wings of Mayhem to arrive
The screaming fury burns
Brings us alive
Stand up and be counted
Stand up and be counted
We are the demons
Children of fire
Your turn has come
Live your desire
Burning ambition
Were were staying wild
We stand as one never denied
Defyant and proud
We stand together
Metlallic and loud we will fight
Devestation, pure Hell
Legions of the night
Stand up and be counted
Stand up and be counted
Come on, raise your hands
We are the black metal gods
V. E. N. O. Fucking M.
Are you with us
Right until the end?
Stand up and be counted
Stand up and be counted
Come on right at the back
You wanna be counted as well?
Stand up!
And be counted..
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