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Green vinyl with poster. Limited 100 numbered copies

Hellfest is an annual music festival which takes place in Clisson, France in mid-June. It is held within the Val de Moine sport complex in Clisson, approximately 35 km south-east of the city of Nantes, and approximately 400 km south-west of the nation’s capital Paris. Billed as an “extreme music festival”, the programme features a variety of Heavy metal, hard rock, punk and hardcore acts. Venom did play here in 2008 and for the second time in 2015. This limited album features material from that second show on the 20th of June 2015. The band were headling Saturday night (or Sunday morning if you prefer to call it that) and I think that the day couldnt have ended better. Venom’s charismatic front man has lost none of his nerve and is still wearing the same tacky wear as he did back then! A lot more confident musically, Cronos took us through a set spanning Venom’s career and I particularly liked the less visited material like the crushing Warhead, the visceral Bloodlust and a suitably mayhemic Witching Hour. Apologizing about the lack of pyro, Conrad seemed to overlook the power and addiction of Venom’s material as being the prime reason that the multitude faithfully remained until the very end for these (still) black metal gods.

Track list:
1. Rise
2. Bloodlust
3. Die Hard
4. Long Haired Punks
5. Grinding Teeth
6. Buried Alive
7. The Evil One
8. Welcome To Hell
9. 1000 Days In Sodom
10. Countess Bathory
11. Warhead
12. Black Metal
13. Witching Hour