Pioneering Black Metal: Members often discuss how their 1982 album Black Metal inadvertently became the namesake for the extreme metal genre. Cronos describes Venom as a “catalyst” for the extreme metal movement, emphasizing that the intention was to define a new level of heaviness, not to seriously promote Satanism, but for entertainment purposes similar to a horror movie.

Pioneering Black Metal: Members often discuss how their 1982 album Black Metal inadvertently became the namesake for the extreme metal genre. Cronos describes Venom as a “catalyst” for the extreme metal movement, emphasizing that the intention was to define a new level of heaviness, not to seriously promote Satanism, but for entertainment purposes similar to a horror movie.