Description

2017 Us only release. Double album on blue vinyls with gatefold cover and insert featuring notes of the tracks by Mantas and Abaddon written in August of 2016

A collection of demos, remixes, rarities, and entertaining trivia such as radio and TV promos, Skeletons In The Closet was released as reassessment of Venom’s output began to create more interest in their back catalogue. There are a few pre-Welcome to Hell songs and an epic, 20-plus-minute re-edited version of “At War With Satan.” When this rarities collection was originally released in 1996, it was a perfect edition to any Venom fans collection as it contained previously unreleased songs, demons, and remixes. However most of the material present on this release has since then been re-released as bonus tracks on the remastered editions of Welcome To Hell, Black Metal, At War With Satan, and Possessed and even the compilation In League With Satan. There are still a few songs however that were not re-released that still makes this package a must for the die hard fan. The two songs that are still only available on this release are Dead On Arrival and Sadist (Mistress Of The Whip). Another song that is only available on this release is At War With Satan (Full Re-Edited Version). I really dug this version as it took the breathtakingly creepy speech that was found towards the end of the song and put it at the front of the song instead, much like the At War With Satan preview track on Black Metal. If your a die hard and must have these three tracks, also check out the Venom tribute album as it also has a rare Venom track called Holy Man.

Track list:
1. Tour Intro Tape (’83/84) / Welcome To Hell
2. Dead On Arrival
3. Snots Shit
4. Black Metal-remix
5. Hounds Of Hell
6. At War With Satan-TV adverts
7. At War With Satan-full re-edited version
8. Bitch Witch
9. Intro Tapes-Tours 85/86
10. Possessed-remix
11. Sadist (Mistress Of The Whip)
12. Manitou-Abbey Road uncut mix
13. Angel Dust-demo 1980
14. Raise The Dead-demo 1980
15. Red Light Fever-demo 1980
16. Venom Station-I.D.s For America and Spain