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:	post by DrinkHardThrashHard at 2006-05-08 19:33:50

The first band people threw around the term 'death metal' for was Possessed. It was the title of their first demo. So this thread should have been Death vs. Possessed.

Lyrically and conceptually Venom were NOT a death metal band (the term and the style did not exist), they were an over the top bastardization and a rebellion against the safer NWOBHM style of the time period, which the band has stated in their own biography. When I was about 8-9 years old and those first few records were over here and we heard them from our older brothers, cousins, etc, the term we always threw around for Venom was speed metal.

However, Venom were a MAJOR influence on both Possessed and Death, so they certainly had a hand in the creation of 'death metal' as a viable subgenre and you could definitely see them as a borderline death metal band for that reason.

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