The Wastelands is the eighth studio album by British heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Venom

Venom (band)

Venom are an English heavy metal band that formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Coming to prominence towards the end of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Venom's first two albums—Welcome to Hell and Black Metal —are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general...

. It is the last with bassist/singer Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan

Tony Dolan

Tony "Demolition" Dolan is an English musician and actor, most known as bassist and vocalist of heavy metal bands Atomkraft and Venom born in 1961....

 and also the last before the reunion of the classic Venom line-up from their first four albums Welcome to Hell

Welcome to Hell

Welcome to Hell is the debut album by the English heavy metal band Venom, released in December 1981. Welcome to Hell is often described as speed metal, but it had a great influence on the then-emerging thrash metal style, and crystallized the elements of what later became known as death metal and...

, Black Metal

Black Metal (album)

Black Metal is the second album by the English band Venom. It was released in November 1982 and is considered a major influence on the thrash metal, death metal and black metal scenes that emerged in the 1980s and early 1990s. Although lending its name to the latter genre, today the album is often...

, At War with Satan

At War with Satan

-Personnel:*Cronos – bass guitar, vocals*Mantas – guitar*Abaddon – drums-Production:*All Songs Published By Power Metal Publishing/Neat Music Publishing.*Arranged & Produced By Venom*Engineered & Mixed By Martin Smith & Keith Nichol- External links :*...

and Possessed. Although not a sales success, this album is generally regarded as Venom's most fully realized work.
The working title for this album was "Kissing the Beast", but the band changed it when they saw the cover.

Track listing

All songs were written by Anthony Bray, Tony Dolan and Jeff Dunn.

Credits

• Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan
  Tony Dolan
  Tony "Demolition" Dolan is an English musician and actor, most known as bassist and vocalist of heavy metal bands Atomkraft and Venom born in 1961....
  
   – vocals, bass
• Jeff "Mantas" Dunn – guitar
• Steve White – guitar
• V.X.S. – Keyboards and Sound Effects
• Anthony "Abaddon" Bray – drums