Venom "at war with satan"

In 1985 I was in eighth grade, over the previous summer I had discovered Iron Maiden's "run to the hills" video on MTV.  At this point I was bicycling up to Hills department store weekly to spend my allowance on cassette tapes. Over that summer I was able to purchase a couple Maiden tapes and a smattering of various rock albums based on album covers. I fell in love with maiden that summer and was able to trade an old bicycle for a denim jacket with Iron Maiden's "piece of mind" on a back patch.  I wore that jacket like it was seared to my flesh. While sulking to my locker one day a fellow metal head who had older metal head brothers handed me a cassette on one side labeled "slayer- hell awaits" and the flip side "venom-at war with satan". My ears turned flush, at that point Maiden's "number of the beast" was the most satanic thing that could ever be recorded. But this label promised forbidden delights.
Listening to this #venom album now I will admit it sounds pretty dumb, but lying in my room with my boom box near my head listening to that tape in a barely audible volume for fear my mom would hear it... I felt a rebellious rush. I had been raised Roman catholic, but had by this time become a tepid agnostic. And here was an open war cry against god (I wasn't sophisticated enough to realize how tongue in cheek it was). I would eventually flip flop but at the time I vastly preferred the venom side over the slayer side. This cassette became the measuring stick for my small inner circle of hesher friends. We stopped buying Krokus albums. From here on evil looking albums were all we wanted.