Venom, Slayer, + Exodus - 1985 - Sudio 54, NYC

The Ultimate Revenge: Combat Tour Live 

Venom 

Slayer 

Exodus

Recorded  on April 3, 1985 at Studio 54 in New York.

Wild look back at a truly classic line up of heavy hitting, extreme, and underground metal acts. The footage of Slayer and Exodus comes directly from the filming done at the April 1985 Studio 54 show, but the Venom performance clips come from earlier releases. Not sure why this the case but I vaguely remember hearing Mantas was sick and Venom used replacement guitarists for this gig, so perhaps that's the reason. Backstage interviews provide some comic relief as well as insight into band dynamics and attitudes.

Venom - 2 April 1986 - City Gardens - Trenton, NJ

This Venom "bootleg" was released as an early seven inch on the Ecstatic Peace label and it's induced as much turntable inspired laughter around my pad as The Frogs. It features only the between song banter, but none of the music from a 1986 Venom gig in Trenton, New Jersey.


This Venom show is notable for Black Flag also playing on the bill. Also interesting to note, this was sampled on the Beastie Boys' track "Mark On The Bus" - "...you're wild man!" I've always dug Venom and include many of their releases among my records, but this is good and entertaining stuff. There's a lot of Spinal Tap in so much heavy metal...






Venom - Bursting Out
from the 1983 Die Hard 12" single.