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

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

I had to be at least 8 or 9; I was listening to everything on the radio. You name it, I heard every song.

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

We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again

I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.