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At War with Satan
''At War with Satan'' is the third album by extreme metal band Venom, released in April 1984. A semi-concept album that tells the story of a war between Heaven and Hell where the latter side wins, it was touted as Venom's crossover into rock mainstream, but failed to do so. Shortly after it reached the stores the HMV record chain withdrew the album from their shelves due to its anti-Christian content.
==Background==
The inspiration for writing a track filling out an entire side of the record, according to Venom bassist Cronos, came from Rush's ''2112'' album.〔Kupfer, Thomas: ''Venom''. ''Jesus musste gehen''. In: ''Rock Hard'', no. 304, September 2012, p. 40.〕 "At War with Satan" is centred on a character named Abaddon (which is also the alias of Tony Bray, Venom's drummer), who is the guardian to the gates of Hell. Venom bassist and vocalist Cronos started writing, back in his school days, a story about "how Hell revolts and takes over the heavens and throws God into Hell", a story later fleshed out as "At War with Satan".〔 The title track's imagery and storyline largely evokes the Book of Revelation and John Milton's epic poem ''Paradise Lost'' (1667–1674) filtered through a postmodern horror movie and pulp aesthetic.
With side A taken by the epic title track, side B offers the "three-minute scorchers" that band is best known for.〔 Metal journalist Malcolm Dome said that songs such as "Cry Wolf" showed how much Venom had matured in their songwriting without losing their edge.〔Dome 2002, p. 7.〕 According to Allmusic reviewer Eduardo Rivadavia, the album's last track, "Aaaaaarrghh", is "possibly the funniest song ever recorded".〔
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