Lant had yet composed songs like "Sons of Satan", "Bloodlust" and "Welcome to Hell", while Dunn had yet composed songs like "Angel Dust", "Red Light Fever", "Buried Alive", "Raise the Dead" and "Live Like an Angel, Die Like a Devil". In late 1979 Lant introduced the band to his original song ideas as he did not want to keep playing the same cover songs, and with Dunn he began writing new songs for the band. However, such references were mostly for shock value. Since the beginning of their career, Venom have often used " Satanic" lyrics and imagery. Archer became "Jesus Christ", Lant "Cronos", Bray " Abaddon", and Dunn " Mantas". The band members took on new stage names. Lant later switched to bass after the departure of Winston. In late 1979, Conrad Lant replaced Dave Rutherford.
The band name then changed in 1978 to Venom. Later, Hewitt was replaced by Alan Winston on bass. Blackman and Mercater were later also replaced by drummer Anthony Bray and vocalist Clive Archer. The original Guillotine featured Jeffrey Dunn and Dave Rutherford on guitars, Dean Hewitt on bass guitar, Dave Blackman on vocals, and Chris Mercater on drums who replaced Paul Burke, the original drummer when the band was founded. Venom's original personnel came from three different bands: Guillotine, Oberon and Dwarfstar. Their second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of the black metal genre as a result, Venom were part of the early wave of the genre, along with Mercyful Fate and Bathory. Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, Venom's first two albums, Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982), are considered major influences on thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Venom are an English heavy metal band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1978.
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