No one could terrify like Cronos, the black metal innovator who reignited rock’s hellraising attitude
As frontman of Venom, Conrad Lant made an impact on metal to rival Black Sabbath, inspiring a whole new subgenre with his diabolical grandstanding, unruly spirit and heretic noise Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant, frontman of UK heavy metal band Venom, dies…
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RegionsUnited Kingdom
Published3 h ago (Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:33:05 GMT)
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AuthorMatt Mills