Welcome to Hell is the 1981 debut album bi the Inglishivy 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.
↑Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Welcome to Hell - Venom". Allmusic. "Make no mistake: Welcome to Hell, more than any other album, crystallized the elements of what later became known as thrash, death, black, and virtually every other form of extreme metal".