Welcome to Hell

Welcome to Hell
Studio album by Venom
Released	December 1981 (UK)
Recordit	August 1981 at Impulse Studios in Newcastle, Ingland
Genre	Speed metal, proto-thrash
Lenth	39:26
Label	Neat
Producer	Keith Nichol an Venom
Venom chronology
Demon (1980)Demon1980 Welcome to Hell (1981) Black Metal (1982)Black Metal1982

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Allmusic

Welcome to Hell is the 1981 debut album bi the Inglis hivy metal baund Venom. The soond o the album wis vera noisy an rough, aiblins in pairt acause the baund thocht thay wur recordin a demo when thay recordit the album ower a period o anerlie three days. Geoff Barton statit in his 1981 five-starn review o Welcome to Hell the album haed "the hi-fi dynamics o a 50-year-auld pizza" an it "brought a new meaning tae the wird 'cataclysmic'". Housomeivver, thae comments compared it tae ither hivy metal frae the early aichties.

The album is aften describit as "speed metal", awtho it haed a great influence on the then-emerging thrash metal style.

The first vinyl pressin includit a poster an a pink leerics sheet.

Track leetin

LP

Aw tracks written bi Bray/Dunn/Lant.

Side A
No.	Teetle	Lenth
1.	"Sons of Satan"	3:38
2.	"Welcome to Hell"	3:15
3.	"Mayhem With Mercy"	0:58
4.	"Poison"	4:33
5.	"Live Like an Angel"	3:59

Side B
No.	Teetle	Lenth
1.	"Witching Hour"	3:40
2.	"One Thousand Days in Sodom"	4:36
3.	"Angel Dust"	2:43
4.	"In League With Satan"	3:35
5.	"Red Light Fever"	5:14

CD

No.	Teetle	Lenth
1.	"Sons of Satan"	3:38
2.	"Welcome to Hell"	3:15
3.	"Schizoid"	3:34
4.	"Mayhem With Mercy"	0:58
5.	"Poison"	4:33
6.	"Live Like an Angel (Die Like a Devil)"	3:59
7.	"Witching Hour"	3:40
8.	"One Thousand Days in Sodom"	4:36
9.	"Angel Dust"	2:43
10.	"In League With Satan"	3:35
11.	"Red Light Fever"	5:14

Bonus tracks in 1985 rerelease bi Combat
No.	Teetle	Lenth
12.	"In Nomine Satanas"	3:28
13.	"Bursting Out"	2:56

Bonus tracks in 2002 rerelease bi Castle/Sanctuary
No.	Teetle	Lenth
12.	"Angel Dust (Lead Weight version)"	3:03
13.	"In League With Satan (7" version)"	3:31
14.	"Live Like an Angel (7" version)"	3:54
15.	"Bloodlust (7" version)"	2:59
16.	"In Nomine Satanas (7" version)"	3:29
17.	"Angel Dust (Demo)"	3:10
18.	"Raise the Dead (Demo)"	3:29
19.	"Red Light Fever (Demo)"	4:51
20.	"Welcome to Hell (Demo)"	4:57
21.	"Bitch Witch (Oottak)"	3:08
22.	"Snots Shit (Oottak)"	2:06

Comes wi a 12- page beuklet. Some versions hae slipcase kiver.

Credits

• Venom - Producer, Performer
  • Conrad "Cronos" Lant – bass guitar, vocals
  • Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn – guitar
  • Tony "Abaddon" Bray – drums
• Keith Nichol - Producer