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Venom was a joke in the '80s, their heavy metal music sucked big time, and I really have no interest in them - not…

— Varg Vikernes

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

— Kerry King

Had I lived in Norman and those bands hadn't existed, who knows where I'd be, I might be doing something awful; I might be…

— Josh Jones

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

— Kurt Cobain

I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

— Jeri Ryan

My sister's CD collection was my source of music for a long time. When she showed me 'Kid A,' I was really psyched about…

— Alex G

I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up…

— David Pajo

I started to listen to music in '80 or '81, bands like Queen or Kiss. Then in '83, when I first got into Slayer…

— Max Cavalera

I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking…

— Eva Mendes

As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and…

— Tony Burgess

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

— Amy Lee

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects.…

— Jessica Hagedorn