Black Metal (studio album) by Venom

Black Metal by Venom
Year: 1982
Overall rank: 5,193rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 124 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1982 (85th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (762nd)
Award Best albums of all time (5,193rd)
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Black Metal is ranked as the best album by Venom.

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Black Metal track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 124 votes)
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08/07/2025 23:03 edguyerrison  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 13574/100
 
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07/05/2025 18:22 matterhornrider  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 4,66981/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.4/100, a mean average of 73.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.2.

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80/100
From 01/25/2022 08:00
Solid Metal but the mixing sounds archaic, especially the drums are badly recorded.
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From 01/25/2022 07:47
Solid metal. But, The mixing of this album sounds archaic, thus giving a slightly messy result, plus the guitars are put to the background, they do not really rule. Guitar solos do not convince me.
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From 12/02/2021 14:30
can you play? NO can you write? NO can you flail? YES ok, you're in.
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85/100
From 12/25/2019 13:11
Um dos definidores do metal!
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65/100
From 05/07/2019 20:55
Venom is just a detuned, faster, crappier Motörhead. This album and Welcome to Hell aren't that bad though.
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85/100
From 11/11/2018 01:41
A milestone for extreme metal!
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70/100
From 09/30/2016 20:38
This is officialy called "The First Black Metal" album , nowadays its just Thrash Metal but history is history.
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