Venom - Calm Before the Storm - Picture Disc post punk they lived apart: singer Milo

they lived apart: singer Milo Aukerman - whose cartoon rendering famously serves as the band's logo - was now living in Delaware

Dame Sue Black

Includes Lucy Lawless' versions of "People Got to be Free

Digitally remastered European vinyl LP pressing of this 1981 release from the Australian Hard Rockers

An unfiltered photograph of a band doing what they do best

Venom - Calm Before the Storm - Picture Disc post punk they lived apart: singer MiloTransitional 1987 effort Calm Before the Storm saw guitarist Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn replaced by the double attack of Jimi Clare and Mike Hickey. This was a period when the whole thrash movement was at it's height, and the genre was starting to fragment. Some bands were becoming more sophisticated, while others were delving into altogether more extreme areas of music. It was an easy time for Venom, because they were unique and ground breakers, so a