KaiKaspareK's Kremling Kreator

Fact: Venom invented extreme metal.  Without Venom, thrash, black, death, metalcore, grindcore, blackened death and everything in between would not exist.  Way more so than Motorhead.  I love Motorhead, possibly my favorite band of all time.  While they do deserve some credit for extreme metal's architecture, Venom is just more important, and I will explain why. Objectively speaking, if you were to make a Top X metal bands of all time, they have to be top 5, possibly in the top 3.   Their influence is so prevalent in everything afterwards that you really don't even notice it.  It's like commenting on the type of wood that forms the skeleton of a house.  Yet reading that top 5 sentence out loud would probably grant more snickers and "ehhhhs" than cheers of approval.  Unfortunately, it seems like history has almost forgotten Venom, despite their first two records, Welcome To Hell  released in 1981, and Black Metal  released in 1982, providing a solar system spanning

     I will always have respect for Bob Daisley. He is without question, the Bernie Taupin to Ozzy's Elton John. At the same time, I always have to look at him funny. Like, dude. Sharon being a problem was not some revelation you discovered 20 years down the line (like it was for the rest of us). You knew she was bad news right then and there. Yet you still kept coming back. Even Lee Kerslake saw The Sign went back to Uriah Heep. I mean, I'm glad you came back and we got many great albums cos of you, but still, you got no one to blame for the repeated abuse but yourself. And yes, Robert Trujillo re-recording your bass lines was bullshit and the worst thing he's ever done. (yes that includes Lulu). I look at Ozzy's relationship with his musicians as a two way street. His musicians gave him musical credibility and songwriting he clearly could not get on his own. At the same time, Ozzy gave his musicians a street credibility that they couldn't get anywhere el