Venom (May 1996)

One of the highlights of my life, meeting the members of Venom, including my childhood hero and spiritual child namesake Conrad “Cronos” Lant. Here’s Cronos and Abaddon, who had just patiently signed a whopping load of CD liner notes and such. Mantas wasn’t there, but thankfully I’d walked into him the day before. All of this happened during the Dynamo Open Air ’96 event, which ultimately led to the release of the “The Second Coming” live video, taped there.