Ex-VENOM Frontman Says BLABBERMOUTH.NET Detractors Are 'Jealous Of What I Am Achieving'

Former VENOM/MANTAS and current ATOMKRAFT bassist/vocalist Tony Dolan has reacted to the criticisms leveled at him for his statements made in an interview with South America's Deathrasher magazine, which were posted on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. In a follow-up question submitted by Deaththrasher (which has since been added to the magazine's original interview page),Dolan was asked if he was aware that VENOM mainman Cronos and/or the group's manager, Eric Cook, had posted derogatory comments under assumed names about him on BLABBERMOUTH.NET.

"I get mail all the time from people telling me when there's something on the net, especially if it's on Blabbermouth.net," Dolan replied. "I myself am not a member; I have no ID for Blabbermouth or log-in name or whatever you fucking need! Ha! Ha! The crazy thing is, there are people who think I have and that I write shit on there!! Fools, suckers, idiots, whatever you wanna call them… I do what I do and couldn't give a fuck what they do, really — not one fuck! I just think it's a little sad and pathetic to have a go at me on a site like that. 'He's gay. Ha! ha! Yeah, OK! I do amateur dramatics, Ha! Ha! Ha! Yeah for 20th Century Fox and Columbia. Oh, yeah, and the BBC and HBO!! These guys are just jealous and crazy about their own failings!!

"I'm a bighead? Well that itself comes from some kind of egoist, as the [excerpts from the Deaththrasher interview] on Blabbermouth [were] lifted from an official fan site and not posted from me! I don't know who it is!? I got a letter from Eric Cook at Demolition Records [MANTAS' record label], as he was mentioned as commenting on the article as well as his brother (and label manager),and it basically said it wasn't them who posted.

"All I know is, I got several e-mails telling me to go look [on the BLABBERMOUTH.NETpage containing the Deathrasher interview and follow-up comments] and telling me that Cronos had written something.

"When Jeff [a.k.a. Mantas] kicked off the MANTAS thing on the net, we (myself and Jeff) got lots of things written about us — we were gay, shit, fat, old… Ha! Ha! The usual inferior bullshit, but the guitarist who works on computers and for Demolition Records did a search on some of the IP addressees of computers used, saying some of this stuff, or something, and traced some of them back to Cronos, apparently. Now I can't imagine for one minute that he'd want to waste time slagging me off on Blabbermouth under a pseudonym, do you? I think it's more likely to be some arsebandit, who has just failed at whatever he thought he was good at and is just jealous of what I have and am achieving! They're trying to cover their tracks by making out it's someone else. Ooh, that's brave! Ha! Ha! They seem to want me to, 'die, die fucking die.' Ha! Ha! Ha! Well, all I can tell them is, not yet, there's more to come, fuckface! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

"Oh, and just to add, you asked in the last interview if I got any royalties from VENOM, seeing as I am no longer with them? I answered that I'd just received something in conjunction to VH1 Europe playing 'Prime Evil' from the VENOM 'Live '90' video. Some braindead knob on Blabbermouth said he couldn't see how royalties from that would keep me in a London lifestyle!! Ha! Ha!

"I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world right now, so, of course, that alone wouldn't. You asked me for an example and I gave you one; it isn't the only source, and it was an example of payments related to my VENOM days I get, not the only one, just one of many!! Some people are just plain stupid! Ha! Ha! Ha!"