![]() ![]() In late 1979, Conrad Lant replaced Dave Rutherford. The band name then changed in 1978 to Venom. Later, Hewitt was replaced by Alan Winston on bass. Blackman and Mercater were later also replaced by drummer Anthony Bray and vocalist Clive Archer. The original Guillotine featured Jeffrey Dunn and Dave Rutherford on guitars, Dean Hewitt on bass guitar, Dave Blackman on vocals, and Chris Mercater on drums who replaced Paul Burke, the original drummer when the band was founded. ![]() ![]() Venom's original personnel came from three different bands: Guillotine, Oberon and Dwarfstar. Their second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of the black metal genre as a result, Venom were part of the early wave of the genre, along with Mercyful Fate and Bathory. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, Venom's first two albums, Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982), are considered major influences on thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Venom are an English heavy metal band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978. ![]()
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