Description

Reduced price due to no cdR with this album

10” metal lacquer plate acetate. Numbered to 33 copies

Venoms 7 Date Of Hell Tour or At War With Europe as it was called at an early stage was intended to be held at the folllowing places and dates: Zurich (Switzerland) Feb 3rd, Vienna (Austria) 5th, Nuremburg (Germany) 7th, Paris (France) 9th, Aardschokdag in Zwolle(Holland) 11th, Poperinge (Belgium) 12th and Birmingham (England) on 14th. But two dates were changed. Venom were not allowed to play in Austria because of their satanic lyrics and that date were changed to a gig in Milan (Italy) and the british date were rescheduled to London May 28th but was later and finally altered to June 1st. All february concerts were supported by Metallica. Cronos remembers the tour with Metallica; It was a great time. And it was a good time for those guys to actually be able to hit the European shows. We were looking for bands like us, because, as we always said, we have a different crowd, he explained. We [were] not pulling the same kind of crowd that would go and see Motley Crue or whatever. A friend of mine used to have a bootleg stall, and he came to me one day with a VHS tape, and said, I’ve seen this band in San Francisco, and they are just like you guys.’ And it was a Metallica show, with Dave Mustaine wearing his Welcome To Hell shirt. So, when we got the opportunity to get in touch with Megaforce Records founder and former Metallica manager Jon Zazula and go over there, we said, ‘There’s a band on the other side of the country…’ Now, we traveled 3,000 miles from England to New York, and those guys traveled 3,000 miles from the West Coast to New York, so that’s fair — we’d meet in the middle. Guitarist Kirk Hammett said that he and his bandmates were super-psyched about embarking on their first European tour with Venom. I thought I was worldly, because I’d stayed in New York for a few months, he said. But to go to Europe, for James, Cliff and I, the culture shock hit us pretty hard. It was the food, the language barrier, the fact that stores were opening and closing at different times of the day. On Sundays, you couldn’t get anything. The television was different. You couldn’t read anything when you looked around. We got over it after awhile, but it was so different than any of us expected. Six months previous to that, I was sitting in my Volkswagen, drinking vodka, driving over the Bay Bridge, cranking Venom on my way to hear some metal bands play in a club in San Francisco. Now I’m on tour with them. It was quite a leap for me. I went from being an uber-heavy metal fan to being a heavy metal musician, to being in it. This 10 single features three tracks from that tour, recorded at the Espace Balard in Paris, France on the 9th of February 1984

Track list:
1. Whiplash
2. Seek And Destroy
3. Metal Militia