The evil that men do.
This news just in: Venom are to be awarded the freedom of the city of Newcastle for their services to heavy metal horribleness. When approached for comment, frontman Cronos said simply: “Wooargh.”
We just made that up, of course. While Ozzy and Tony can perform at the Commonwealth Games, and Black Sabbath be the subject of a petition to be honoured by the Queen, Venom – who, it could be argued, have influenced at least as many, if not more, artists and music genres as the Sabs – languish in relative obscurity, somewhere in the distant portals of Hell.
That will never change, particularly not in the current climate of wokeism and cancel culture. Did you know that Wordle refuses to accept ‘Satan’ as a five-letter suggestion? It fair makes the cauldron boil.
Perhaps it all comes down to niceties. Sabbath may have been menacing, but they were never truly evil – not like Venom were and, to a certain extent, with Cronos the sole remaining original member, still are. Plus, we’re not just talking about ‘evil’ in thetrack five on their debut album sounds even more abhorrent today than it did back in 1981. Briefly: Cronos contracts an
