No one could terrify like Cronos, the black metal innovator who reignited rock’s hellraising attitude

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According to The Guardian’s source item, 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 aged 63 When Venom’s first blasts of ungodly racket emanated from Newcastle upon Tyne in the late 1970s, metal was enduring its awkward adolescence. Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had respectively slipped down the charts and broken up, and young guns Iron Maiden and Judas Priest were years away from reaching their commercial heights. Frontman Conrad “Cronos” Lant decided that the genre had become “lame”. “There could only be one new way to do this,” he recalled to Guitar World in 2008. “For metal bands to get some fucking balls again.” Continue reading…

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