Recommended reading

Listen to Nergal cover Venom’s Satanachist

News
By ( Metal Hammer ) published

Behemoth frontman Nergal’s lockdown cover of Satanachist features original Venom guitarist Mantas

(Image credit: Scott Dudelson/Getty Images/Fin Costello/Redferns)

Behemoth frontman Nergal has teamed up with original Venom guitarist Mantas for a quarantine cover of the British metal legends’ classic 1985 track Satanachist.

Posting a video of the pair performing the song on his Instagram page, Nergal said: “That came out spontaneous...just to have some fun and kill the time during quarantine. But to me, as a big Venom devotee, it's a fan boy moment.

"Thank you Jeff Dunn aka Mantas for involving me, means a lot!

"Ladies and gets, from the very depths of hell... one of my all time favorite Venom songs “Satanachist”!

Satanachist originally appeared on Venom’s 1985 album Possessed. 

That came out spontaneous...just to have some fun and kill the time during quarantine. But to me, as a big Venom devotee, it’s a fan boy moment. Thank you Jeff Dunn aka Mantas for involving me, means a lot! Ladies and gets, from the very depths of hell... one of my all time favorite Venom songs “Satanachist”!💪🤘 PS. Shout out to Haldor Grunberg for making all this possible in his home studio... plus thanx for backing vocals!💪💪💪 PS.2 becoz this riff sounds almost EXACTLY the same as Burzum’s “War” I used the same opening scream “This is... war” just like Varg did💒... just to build the link and show who inspired who...😎 @satanicaudio @venom_inc Adam Nergal Darski

A photo posted by @nergal69 on May 24, 2020 at 12:49am PDT

Dave Everley
Dave Everley

Dave Everley has been writing about and occasionally humming along to music since the early 90s. During that time, he has been Deputy Editor on Kerrang! and Classic Rock, Associate Editor on Q magazine and staff writer/tea boy on Raw, not necessarily in that order. He has written for Metal Hammer, Louder, Prog, the Observer, Select, Mojo, the Evening Standard and the totally legendary Ultrakill. He is still waiting for Billy Gibbons to send him a bottle of hot sauce he was promised several years ago.