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Black Metal

"Black Metal" is the title track by English heavy metal band Venom, taken from their 1982 album of the same name released through Neat Records. Emerging during the new wave of British heavy metal, the song sits at the heart of a record widely credited with influencing speed metal, thrash metal, death metal, and black metal. For electric guitarists, it offers a raw, aggressive style that shaped the template for extreme metal rhythm playing for decades to come.

  • The album 'Black Metal' is considered a foundational influence on multiple extreme metal subgenres that emerged through the 1980s and 1990s.
  • Venom released the album through Neat Records, an independent label closely associated with the new wave of British heavy metal movement.
  • The title track gave its name to an entire genre — a rare distinction that makes it a historically significant piece to learn on electric guitar.
Gibson Les Paul Standard
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Gibson Les Paul Standard

Mantas switched to the Les Paul Standard for later Venom albums, leveraging its thicker body and stock PAF humbuckers to generate sustain-rich droning lead tones. The guitar's weight and resonance complemented his transition toward longer, wailing solos while maintaining the clarity needed to cut through Marshall saturation.

Gibson Les Paul Custom
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Gibson Les Paul Custom

The Les Paul Custom shares the same tonal DNA as Mantas' Standard: thick body resonance, warm humbuckers, and sustained leads ideal for black metal's droning aesthetic. Though less documented in his rig, the Custom offers comparable sustain and compression for his minimalist, vibrato-driven soloing approach.

Gibson Explorer
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Gibson Explorer

Venom's early signature sound relied on the Gibson Explorer's angular body and aggressive weight, which suited Mantas' punishing downpicking style and raw distortion attack. The Explorer's solid construction and stock humbuckers delivered the sharp, cutting aggression that defined Venom's primitive black metal assault.

Marshall JCM800
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Marshall JCM800

The Marshall JCM800 2203 is the heart of Mantas' tone, delivering thick power-tube saturation at high volumes with minimal EQ tweaking. Running the amp cranked at 7-8 volume forced him to rely on picking dynamics and vibrato for tone shaping, creating Venom's signature compressed, uncontrollable wall of distortion.

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