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Venom: "This is the devil's music"

Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 27 June 2008

Credited with inventing an entire genre and influencing some of the world's biggest metal bands, Venom are still seen as a bit of a joke in this country. So what's kept them going for 30 years?

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