Calm Before the Storm (Venom album)

Calm Before the Storm
Studio album by
Released9 November 1987[1]
Recorded1987
StudioThe New Marquee Studios, London
GenreHeavy metal
Length36:20
LabelFilmtrax
ProducerNick Tauber and Venom
Venom chronology
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
(1986)
Calm Before the Storm
(1987)
Prime Evil
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[3]

Calm Before the Storm is the fifth studio album by British heavy metal band Venom. The original title of the album would have been Deadline, but the title was changed when guitarist Jeffrey "Mantas" Dunn left the band and was replaced by Jimi Clare and Mike Hickey. Both were to follow bassist Conrad "Cronos" Lant in his later solo career and the latter would also return on the 2006 album Metal Black.

The album is characterised by a "cleaner", more synthetic sound when compared to Venom's other albums. Especially the drums, which sound almost like a drum machine, are contributing to this fact.[citation needed] Also, the guitar has a brighter sound and is easily distinguishable from the bass. The change in sound is perhaps mostly due to the addition of another guitarist and the producer Nick Tauber, who had previously worked with hard rock acts such as UFO and Thin Lizzy.[4]

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 14.
  2. ^ Huey, Steve. "Calm Before the Storm - Venom". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  3. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 396. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  4. ^ "Nick Tauber credits". Swisscharts.com. Retrieved 27 May 2013.