Fallen Angels

From start to finish, this effort pleasingly delivers dark-iry-raw-punk'd-powerful riffs and quickly conjures up as many devils as one can count! The title track and album art alone made it very intriguing for me to explore! Still not a big black-style metal fan, but have learned to appreciate bands like these especially when they offer up a direction-oriented release that has something to follow like this one! After a few listens to their recent material like Metal Black(2006) and Hell(2008), Venom seemed to have fallen down into a bottomless pit of directionless confusion re-spewing up pukish-hellacious-noize pollution!? With Fallen Angels, the revamped trio of Venom featuring original lead vocalist/bassist Cronos and newer co.(Rage and Dante), seem to finally be back on track 666 offering more sadistic, old-school sounding firestorms with an appealing bite into 2012! Just got the album and was very pleased! Enjoyed all the tracks/no major clunkers INMOP.! Great to hear Venom still can deliver when they want to! Currently, can only check out the sound bites on Amazon UK. Watch out for Fallen Angels! Well-worth getting before said time runs out/hurry now/URGH!

One of the legendary names in metal, Venom have experienced a real up and down ride, with Conrad "Cronos" Lant on bass and vocals the only constant, and the lifeblood of the band, much like Lemmy is Motorhead as far as most fans are concerned. This outfit that gave the name if not the exact style to black metal and was the nastiest gnarliest metal you could get for their first couple albums, with absolutely horrible sound, especially on the debut "Welcome to Hell" has enjoyed a rebound of late. Cronos has regrouped with a truly exciting and scorching band with Dante on drums and Rage on guitar, who can outplay any guitarist whoever stood next to Cronos. The fresh energy has revitalized Venom and made them truly dangerous again, this time with real chops and a great sound to boot. Best of all, Venom know how to rock, something so many metal bands have forgotten how to do. The Satanic cliche can be overlooked when the music on "Fallen Angels" rivals any competition, matching Motorhead's best moments at times, and showing other outfits that like a lot of older metal outfits, they seem to find inner strength one wouldn't expect. Likewise for Sodom, Accept, Kreator and other long time metal bands who are still too dangerous to be taken lightly. While the newest Venom album "From the Very Depths" is even stronger, "Fallen Angels" is indeed a fine return to form.

this is simply a great album. Venom is a great band, very influential. it's firsts 3 albums are raw, strong, heavy, and even they are terribly produced, you can't avoid to love them. in the last years venom continues to release wonderful records, each one of them i really like. but the sound is so different, since they are super produced and with an ear-blasting sound... well, thhis album is wonderfully produced, but the lyrics annd music are so primal and raw and fierce as those on the first albums.. tracks like "lap of the gods", "sin", "nemesis", and fallen angels, to mention some, are just great. melodic, yet strong and heavy. from the first time i heard this cd, it became one of my favorites from the band. and i do not know why, it was like the less-promoted one between it's last 4 productions, "metal black", "hell", and the new one, "from the very depths". if you love the old-fashioned raw metal from the first three venom albums, don't miss this one!! i really believe you will love it.

The venom fallen angels cd is excellent. I had not known anything about this coming out. I am really very, grateful had it. I followed them since the beginning in 1980 and have always been a fan. Thank you very, very, much.

It's a good album for Venom fans however, if you have BM, WTH and Possessed you are going to be slightly disappointed.

Excellent !

Another good release of these guys. So it is recommended to old and new Venom fans. The hit probably is the first track with its catchy lyrics. The music could be a tad bit louder. I am using the disc for personal usages. That's also a bonus being a limited edition unit. 🔥💿👍😎👍🍺☑

This is the closest Venom has come to the original lineup after numerous changes. I hope they stay together. I can't wait to see a live show.

Cd Hülle Teil abgebrochen.

awesome

Non c'è bisogno di dilungarsi troppo in questa recensione. Venom è il mio gruppo preferito di sempre e questo è il miglior album che hanno partorito da quando sono "rinati". 15 canzoni sulla carta sembrano un po' lunghe da affrontare, ma in ultima analisi non c'è una traccia che sia debole, comprese le 2 bonus track. Venom hanno trovato nel recentemente acquisito batterista Dante la chiave di volta per offrirci un sound e delle canzoni che possono eguagliare, in fatto di emozioni, i classici degli '80 che tutti noi fans amiamo.

Great album! Sounds like a demo, not too polished. That bass tho! So loud and gnarly. The Satanic Grooviness is infectious. Best lines are: "What's in the manger? kill that thing" and "Nemesis stabs you in the bollocks". Punk's not dead, indeed.

Aprés une intro' assez rock'n'roll qui crée la surprise,les fauves sont lachés sur ce "fallen angel" du mythique venom.Alors il n'y a pas grand chose de neuf sous le soleil de satan,mais ce disque est vraiment trés bon.Les morceaux sont rapides,brutaux,thrash et l'ombre du punk si cher au groupe réside pendant toute la duré de cette bonne petite tuerie (enfin de plus d'1h tout de méme)qui fait vraiment du bien par ou elle passe.Rappelons pour mémoire que venom est l'un des "responsable" de la vague thrash américaine,qui dans les 80's n'avait d'yeux que pour motorhead,priest,maiden,sabbath,saxon...et venom .Et ici le gang ne faillit pas à sa réputation de groupe légendaire.Un disque plus que recommandable qui séduira sans aucun doute les fans de musique qui démonte la nuque!