When the barrier created by The Blackest Night is completely absorbed, the Dark Arts effect will be activated. Reduces damage taken by self and nearby party members by 25%. Do I just go home now?’”.

Lant talks about an incident which he still holds to be the most frightening thing that has ever happened to him: “After helping out here and there, the first time I was supposed to properly go away on the trawl-out boat, I missed it.

We didn’t want to burn up and be gone quickly. Dark Arts is granted when the barrier created by the Blackest Night is completely absorbed.

Conjure a simulacrum of your darkside to fight alongside you. “On the quay there was a fish market. Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to target and all enemies nearby it.

Like most young bands, Venom weren’t thinking about heritage, they could only see the next staging post. Creates a patch of salted earth, dealing unaspected damage with a potency of 60 to any enemies who enter. And he laughs, because he knows it’s far beyond good enough. Just like the factory-heavy East End of London, just like the munition works in cities like Birmingham, Coventry and Manchester; just like the Atlantic port of Liverpool and the North Sea port of Hull and the coastal targets of Plymouth, Glasgow, Swansea and Belfast, the docklands of Newcastle were hit hard and heavy during the blitz. Diverts 25% of enmity to target party member.

Yet even the holiest of men succumb to the darkest of temptations.None dare to administer justice to these sacrosanct elite residing outside the reach of the law. In fact if Conrad Lant, an aspirant teenage musician with a taste for punk rock and heavy metal, had a problem, it was that by the time he graduated from school in 1978 he wasn’t destined for a noisy assembly line or dangerous machine shop because there weren’t that many factory jobs left for him to apply for.

Lant became Cronos, Dunn became Mantas, Bray became Abaddon and Archer, in for a penny, in for a pound, took on the name Jesus Christ. I used to listen to Sabbath and Ozzy would go, ‘What is this that stands before me? Slingshots and 1.77 air rifles.

It's free and takes five seconds. When I see some of the younger bands, especially the visual side of them, like Dimmu Borgir, Immortal, bands like that, that’s exactly where I was going.”.

Delivers an attack with a potency of 200. On his last day at high school he faced the same existential question as the rest of his classmates. Cronos says: “It just made sense to rename ourselves as well. Before long, two of the most important albums in extreme metal - Welcome To Hell and Black Metal - would be unleashed on the world. Creates a barrier around target that absorbs damage totaling 25% of target's maximum HP. It just seemed daft to call ourselves Venom - the Sons of Satan - featuring Conrad, Jeff, Clive and Tony.”. That traffic jam, that you get stuck in, and you’re cursing it at the time… it can turn out to be a blessing, y'know.”. Fearing for his safety (the Lants had moved up from London to Tyne and Weir when he was eight casting him as something of an outsider starting at a relatively tough school) he shaved his head before his first day but once acclimatised, never cut his hair again. As well as the unparalleled joy of keeping the publication alive, you'll receive benefits including exclusive editorial, podcasts, and specially-commissioned music by some of our favourite artists.