Yeah I know you were not "criticizing it" jimmy and yeah I know what it means:In Latin, the text “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS” would have been written, “Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum.” Abbreviated, this phrase results in “INRI.” I got the "punch line" and the joke as well.
Venom's best albums are the first 4 from 1981 to 1985 Welcome To Hell,Black Metal,At War With Satan and Possessed.The other 2 albums by Venom that are very good are 1996 "Cast In Stone and 2000 "Ressurection". Those are the 6 best Venom albums of all time,the rest I wouldn't really recommend.
I like Bathory's first 4 albums,1984 "Bathory" then "The Return" and then 1986 Under The Sign Of The Black Mark and the classic 1988 album "Blood, Fire, Death . But when "Twilight Of The Gods" came out in 90' or 91' thats when I didn't care for Quorthon's music anymore,it just wasn't "Bathory" to me anymore as the sound and style changed to drastically.
Celtic Frost used to be very cool with thier first 2 albums 1984 "Morbid Tales" and 1985 "To Mega Therion" but after that they fell apart going into a very commercial non-like-Celitc Frost style.By the time Vanity Nemisis came out they were already "terrible" in my opinion.
The best King Diamond albums in my opinion are Fatal Portrait,Voodoo and The Puppet master,but thats the only 3 albums I really like by the King,the rest are just not my thing. These are the albums from Venom,King Diamond,Celtic Frost and Bathory that I would recommend you playing on your radio show rather than any other releases from these bands.The albums that I mentioned are the band's best albums in the eyes of many old-school fans from back in the day,just an observation and of course an opinion but a damn good opinion! lol!
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| I wasn't criticizing it. I.N.R.I is the inscription on the cross, it stands for Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews or something. It's just the punchline to an old joke that it actually stands for I'm Nailed Right In. Actually quite like Venom, played one of there songs on my last radio show. King Diamonds pretty cool too, always liked Fatal Portrait and Conspiracy. Even had a couple of Bathory albums on cassette, Blood Fire Death and another one called Twilight i think. Have to dig them out and have another listen to them, if i can find a cassette player, they're pretty hard to come by these days. Actually thinking about it had a Celtic Frost cassette as well called Vanity/Nemesis, try to find that too. (Quoting Message by J.D. DIAMOND from Monday, March 01, 2010 3:50:27 PM)
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(lol!) Yeah its probably nothing that floats your boat jimmy,but these bands are the elite classic black/death metal bands of the 1980's,these are the Godfathers of extreme metal.There was nothing before "Venom" only "punk" and of course traditional heavy metal like our own Judas Priest,but for extreme metal ....nope,there was nothing before Venom.
They created "black metal" and also the term "death metal",speed metal and thrash metal...it was all Venom.The media quicky labeled anything "satanic" as "black metal" in the early 80's and thats what it became,even old Mercyful Fate like the debut album and Melissa,Don't Break The Oath albums were considered "black metal" even though King was playing heavy metal music wise,but because of the heavy satanic theme it was called "Black metal" and looking back on it now rightfully so.
At that time there was no band that supported corpse paint as King Diamond did with his satanic beliefs. Venom created black metal but it was Venom,Mercyful fate and Bathory are the 3 bands that made up the early black metal scene of the 80's along with bands like Hellhammer,Celtic Frost and Sarcofago as well.Some of these bands like Venom,Bathory,Sarcofago didn't play guitar solos in some of thier songs but the majority had them, while a band like Hellhammer didn't play solos at all,just rhythm guitar assult and it wasn't because they didn't know how to play solos,and it wasn't the record company telling them not to play any because of a "trend" like the early 90's grunge scene,it was an "underground" attitude of agression,thats it...no other reason.
Just like the old punks not playing solos,it wasn't designed for technical guitar solo players at all,it was to cater to the underground rivit heads into non-popular music,every track didn't need a glamourous "guitar solo" but they still played some,just not every track.People who can't understand this are nothing more than "morons". Its like bashing the Ramones for not playing "solos"?? lol! But these bands were "classic underground" elite bands from the awsome 1980's. Toxic Holocaust's song "Nuke The Cross" plays tribute to this genre and they do it well,very well.
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INRI - I'm Nailed Right In.
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| Sarcofago - INRI - 1987 Total influence on the norwegians who would later support the second wave of black metal in the early 90's. Venom,Bathory,Hellhammer were the influence that Sarcofago upheld at this time. Total "CLASSIC METAL" from the 1980's with yet again no guitar solo in this track. |
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