Venom: Welcome To Hell - Album Of The Week Club review
Venom's Welcome To Hell may have been a genuine force for musical revolution, but to some it remains unlistenable
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Joe Bonamassa plays Royal Tea Live and the cardboard cut-outs go wild
Out now: Joe Bonamassa's Royal Tea: Live From The Ryman proves Royal Tea was a good album, even without a real-life audience
Black Sabbath's super deluxe Sabotage is the lavishly packaged sound of indignant fury
Out now: Anger and frustration resulted in Black Sabbath's sixth album Sabotage - now on super deluxe form - being their heaviest
Bossk take post-metal to bleak new peaks on new album Migration
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