Venom – At War With Satan (LP Vinyl)

Venom's 1984 concept album arrived at a pivotal moment, when the Newcastle trio's raw, speed-obsessed attack was already reshaping what heavy music could be. The title track alone runs nearly twenty minutes, an almost prog-indulgent move from a band that helped invent thrash and black metal's foundational vocabulary. Essential for anyone tracing the lineage from the underground to everything that followed.