Below are some quotes and phrases spoken by various people at times about Venom. I resisted the temptation to comment on some imbecile faggots who spoke out of ignorance and stupidity,so that you can make your own conclusions...

"Mantas' guitar break is quite the best thing since the recent Jeff Beck LP."
-Derek Oliver-Kerrang!

"We're not as fast as Venom, but that's because we don't wank as much!"
-Pete Franklin-Chariot

"Venom, rehearse?"
-Editor-Raw Magazine

"At War With Satan replayed over some really big speakers and directed at either Reagan or the Bear in the East would probably upset the balance of power once and for all"
-Neil Jeffries-Sounds

"Call me anything but Cronos"
-Tony Dolan

"Venom, a legend in their own demise"
-Unknown

"Lisa Aziz was very nice even though she told us to fuck off when i asked her for a blow job"
-Abaddon

"We're the best at being the worst, you can't take yourself seriously in the rock business, can you?"
-Abaddon

Question: Ok,but you have admit that the "Bathory" album ripped off Venom...

Quorthon: Not true at all! It was coincidence. I never really listened to Venom before we recorded our debut album.
-Ultrakill! Magazine

"Fucking nowhere!This is the kind of shit that gives heavy rock a bad name.A lot of LA bands are into this sort of Sataniv rubbish.This is garbage!"
-Robin Crosby - Ratt - when asked to comment on "Nightmare" single

"The recording studio must be in a basement and where does Cronos take his 'singing' lessons?!"
-Jon Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi - when asked to comment on "Nightmare" single

Beastie Boys:In their song "Instant Death" they mention Venom:

"And what do you do when
Your man kills himself and
How do I make friends now

And where is my Mom
I need to show her that
She taught me

And please let me
Die an instant death

Venom are from Newcastle."

"Welcome To Hell was a classic!Black metal,speed metal,death metal-Venom started it all with that one album!"
-Lars Ulrich-Metallica

"Venom were the first thrash band i heard on record-it really pushed me to the best!"
-Kerry King-Slayer

"Pass your Venom singles onto your son and grandson so that the kids of the 21st century will be able to see just what sick ancestors they had!"
-Kerrang! Magazine

"Home taping is killing music...and so are Venom..."
-Paul Elliot-Kerrang!

"I thought i'd seen it all in 'Nam.But this band scare me more than anything i've ever experienced before.I'llnot go on that stage for anything.The whole audience can invade,but i'm staying put!"
-Security Guard-Paramount Theatre

"This band is fucking brain melting. At Hammersmith we were recorded at 147 decibels onstage before they switched the PA on!!"
-Abaddon

"If you wanna hear Venom go home and listen to your fuckin' LP's cause tonight you are gonna getone and a half hours of pure fuckin' mayhem..."
-Mantas,Live on stage

"...and no you can't dance to it..."
-Neil Jeffries-Sounds LP Review

"We didn't even have a record company at all."
-Abaddon

"Venom...sort of John The Baptists of death Metal."
-John Hotten-Kerrang!

"This is the sort of shit that gives Heavy Metal a bad name."
-Jon Bon Jovi

"The only chick i could fall in love with is Kate Bush.I love her totally.I cried at her gig at the Sunderland Empire a few years ago,then walked home30 miles with my head in the clouds."
-Cronos

"We don't do gigs.We do shows.It's massive.If you stand at the front of the stage you're gonna get your head blown off."
-Mantas

"We've never tried to shock.We just do whatever comes naturally.Idon't see much difference between me onstage and off.I'm probably a little more quiet,but you can't say a volcano isn't volatile just because it isn't errupting."
-Abaddon

"There are two tracks on Black Metal that we had to record more than once because we were getting them right all the time!"
-Cronos

"Cast In Stone is a collection of 14 new songs and 10 classics that point to Venom's unerring sense of heavy metal riffage and epic Kiss-style antics. It's a formula that won this black metal progenitor recognition in both fan and critics' circles in the otherwise unglamorous metal underground of the `80s."
-Jackie Vendetti,reviewing "Cast In Stone"

Question:"Cronos what song would you like to play on your funeral?"
Cronos:"In League With Satan definately!"

"Enery major label in the world would ought to rush out immediately and try to snap this lot up."
-Tommy Vance

"I didn't actually meet the band until their third album At War With Satan was put out.By this time i was working for Kerrang!...The time sun proved to be an unyielding taskmaster the day i met the trio at a photographic studio in North London.
Despite being out in daylight there was something gloriously vampirically about them with Cronos proving to be particularly uncontrollable as he attempted to catch and eat passing insects!" "Venom,Lords of Chaos,High Priests Of The Undead,Emperors Of Thrash,Dukes Of Metal"
-Malcom Dome

"They stamp a huge bookamrk on the metal genre that neither time nor tide may erase,and they can lay claim to the title,instigators of the thrash movement."
-Greg Moffit