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Although lending its name to the latter subgenre of heavy metal, today it is still debated if the album's music is thrash metal or black metal.[3][4]AllMusic has described it as "extreme metal",[1] while Moynihan & Søderlind in their book affirm that the album "carved in stone some of [black metal's] essential features".[5] Nevertheless, its lyrics and imagery were a major influence on the early Norwegian black metal scene.[6]
Isegrim made a cover album called A Tribute to Venom.
Machetazo covered "Black Metal"; it appears on their compilation Ultratumba.
Mayhem, whose guitarist and bandleader Euronymous hailed Venom as an important black metal band, covered "Black Metal" on their Pure Fucking Armageddon demo.
Necrodeath made a cover of "Countess Bathory" on their album Draculea released in 2007.
Obituary covered "Buried Alive" for their greatest hits compilation, entitled Anthology.
Sigh covered multiple songs off of this album (as well as other Venom albums) on To Hell and Back: Sigh's Tribute to Venom in 1995, and on A Tribute to Venom in 2008, along with other EPs and splits.
The Soft Pink Truth, Drew Daniel of Matmos' house side project, covered the title track on his 2014 record Why Do The Heathen Rage?