Conrad Thomas Lant (aka Cronos), born in London, UK, in 1963, is a musician who is the vocalist and bass player of the influential thrash metal/speed metal band Venom, from 1979 to 1987 and from 1995 to this day. Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Heavy metals, in chemistry, are chemical elements of a particular range of atomic weights. ... This article is about the musical genre. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass stringed instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, popping or using a pick. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by its signature high speed and aggression. ... Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that spawned in the early 1980s and was the direct musical progenitor of thrash metal[1] [2]. When Speed metal first emerged as a genre, it innovatively increased the tempo of the music template set forth by Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...

Early life

After joining his high school band Dwarfstar, he joined Guillotine as a guitarist in 1978, where he met Jeffrey Dunn (aka Mantas). In 1980, the original bass player left one week before a gig. Instead of not playing the venue, Lant took up the bass and they changed the band name to Venom. He continued to play the bass throughout his career in Venom. In 1981, the band's vocalist Clive Archer left, leaving Lant to take over this role too. Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Jeff Mantas Dunn is a British guitarist best known as one of the founding members of the thrash/speed metal band Venom. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...

Solo career

Lant left the band in 1989 to pursue a solo career and occasionally featured in many other bands of a similar genre, including Cronos, Enthroned, Cradle of Filth, Warpath, Massacre, and Necrodeath. He also produced some of the albums for other bands. Cronos was a United Kingdom-based thrash metal band, formed around 1988 by ex-Venom frontman Cronos after disappointing sales of Venoms Calm Before The Storm album. ... Enthroned was formed in Charleroi in 1993 by Cernunnos. ... Cradle of Filth are a heavy metal band formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. ... Warpath 21st Century Screenshot Warpath Classic Screenshot Warpath, developed by Dan Samuel of Synthetic-Reality, is a shareware 4X real-time multi-player game where up to 8 players race to explore, mine, colonize, develop, and conquer the galaxy. ... Photographs of the My Lai massacre provoked world outrage and made it an international scandal. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Venom tried to continue without Cronos but only managed a couple of releases before calling a halt on their efforts in around 1993 due to lack of sales and poor concert attendances. Cronos reformed the original Venom line-up in 1995 and headlined the Dynamo Festival in 1996 to a staggering 90,000 fans.

Recent developments

In 2000, the band went on to headline the Wacken Festival in Germany and play a one-off show in Holland before they were forced to take a break after Cronos was injured in a climbing accident which left him unable to play bass or sing for a few years. He took to the computer to pass the time and studied games programming, learned 3D software skills and worked as the main multimedia engineer for the computer companies K-Class Systems and Globalfibre.tv.

Cronos again reformed Venom in around 2003 with his brother Antton on drums and recruiting Michael Alan Hickey. After the next couple of years of planning and intensive rehearsals, Venom released their latest album 'Metal Black' in early 2006 on the Sanctuary Group label Castle Music, and they embarked on a sold out world tour. Cronos also appeared on Dave Grohl's heavy metal side project Probot in 2004, and guest starred on the track Knights of the 21st Century on HammerFall's 2005 album Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken. David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969, in Warren, Ohio) is an American rock musician and songwriter. ... Probot (portmanteau: probe + robot) is a musical project masterminded by Dave Grohl. ... Joacim Cans HammerFall is a Swedish power metal band assembled in 1993. ...