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September 14, 2017
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Venom is generally credited with the birth of the black metal movement, and with good reason. They were so out of left field that it's not even accurate to say Welcome to Hell was a massive leap forward in the ... Read More...
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August 28, 2013
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The earliest years of a band can easily be some of the most interesting in retrospect. They say you have your whole life to write your first album and only a few years, at best, to top it with it the second -... Read More...

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