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

— Kerry King

I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some…

— Brian Posehn

Venom was a band that strongly influenced the image and the idea behind Slayer

— Tom Araya

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

In the 80s there weren't so many bands around and nowadays there are a lot more bands around. I think sometimes there are too…

— Udo Dirkschneider

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

— Geezer Butler

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

— Lars Ulrich

I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

— David Pajo

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of…

— Scott Ian

There were bands back in the '90s when I started building a rock CD collection or whatever, I would get their CD and I…

— Lacey Sturm

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

— Geezer Butler

Metallica's the only band i've ever been in. I'm not sure that when it ends in five, ten years, I'm going to put an…

— Lars Ulrich