Venom

British band
Organization musical_group Q192861
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Venom

Summary

Venom is a musical group[1]. Venom ranks in the top 0.67% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,418 views/month, #137 of 20,490).[2]

Key Facts

  • Venom's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Venom's genre is speed metal[4].
  • Venom's genre is heavy metal music[5].
  • Venom's genre is thrash metal[6].
  • Venom's record label is recorded as Sanctuary Records[7].
  • Venom's discography is recorded as Venom discography[8].
  • Venom's Commons category is recorded as Venom (musical group)[9].
  • Venom's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[10].
  • Venom comprises Conrad Lant[11].
  • Venom comprises Jeffrey Dunn[12].
  • Venom comprises Tony Bray[13].
  • Venom comprises Mike Hickey[14].
  • Venom comprises Tony Dolan[15].
  • Venom comprises Anthony Lant[16].
  • Venom comprises Stuart Dixon[17].
  • Venom comprises Danny Needham[18].
  • 1979 marks the founding of Venom[19].
  • Venom's location of formation is recorded as Newcastle upon Tyne[20].
  • Venom's official website is recorded as https://www.venomslegions.com/[21].
  • Venom's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Venom (musical group)[22].
  • Venom's topic has template is recorded as Template:Venom[23].
  • Venom's different from is recorded as Venom[24].
  • Venom's start of work period is recorded as 1979[25].
  • Venom's has list is recorded as list of band members of Venom[26].
  • Venom's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Venom'}[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[28]

  • Country: GB[29]

  • Began / founded: 1979[30]

  • Genre(s): black metal, death metal, heavy metal, metal, nwobhm, speed metal, thrash metal[31]

  • Community tags: black metal, black thrash, british black metal, death, death metal, first-wave black metal, heavy metal, hell, metal, nwobhm, nwobhm/heavy metal, old school thrash, satan, speed metal, speed/black metal, thrash metal, women[32]

  • MusicBrainz ID: d2ad8774-9173-4970-8427-06b04df201c1[33]

Body

Founding

1979 marks the founding of Venom[19]. Venom's location of formation is recorded as Newcastle upon Tyne[20].

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Venom include Venom Inc.[34], a musical group[35], founded in 2015[36].

Why It Matters

Venom ranks in the top 0.67% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,418 views/month, #137 of 20,490).[2] Venom has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Venom is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Venom has been cited as an influence by Slayer[39], a heavy metal band[40], in United States[41], founded in 1981[42] and Sodom[43], a musical group[44], founded in 1982[45].

Entities named for Venom include Venom Inc.[34], a musical group[35], founded in 2015[36].

FAQs

Who did Venom influence?

Venom has been cited as an influence by Slayer[39] and Sodom[43].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [31] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [32] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [33] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [39] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [43] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [44] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · ZI Jony · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facebook page id VENOM/35736783484
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    Start of work period +1979-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P4003]]: VENOM/35736783484, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257116|batch #257116]]"
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