Cronos

Oh, yeah.

Cronos has perished.

Yeah, Cronos of Venom, the, the iconic creator of black metal pretty much.

Most people know him by looking at him.

He was one of the few things that scared me as a teenager, him and his band, and he passed away.

And the reason why, uh, it's, we're, we're mentioning that, maybe I'm tipping it off a little bit to Craig, but I, I, I told him to, you know, "We should say something about Cronos," and that's because he's gonna be part of my question.

Ooh.

I decided to pick three over-the-top, somebody on the outside might say even ridiculous, like, personalities that are in our genre of '80s metal.

Yeah, I guess we will mention that, um, there were some deaths recently in the metal world.

Uh, Cronos from, um, Venom recently passed away.

Um-

We just were applauding that album last time we-

I'm all tore up, man.

Uh, musician Conrad Lant, better known as Cronos, died September 2026 at the age of 63.

A cause of death has not been announced.

He was the lead singer and bass player for Venom, the influential band that coined the term black metal for their style of extreme heavy metal.

... that would take some planning.

Anyway, uh, yeah, uh, Cronos, lead singer, bass player of, of, you know, new wave of British heavy metal icons, Venom, passed away.

I haven't heard an official cause of death, but it was, you know, it's, when you...

It kinda hits you in the sense of like, wow, you know what? Venom actually was super important in, in, you know...

And, yeah, that guy's got a bit of a reputation too.

The curtain pushed them back.

Yeah, uh, Cronos, um, as not being a, uh, a totally affable individual.

And then they've, they've had their own falling out.

And with most of Venom's early material, much of the writing was left to Lent and Dunn.

So that's Mantis and, uh, Ve- and, um, Cronos.

Two of the songs on the album, "Buried Alive" and "Raise the Dead," were written in the 1970s and were originally intended to be on the band's debut album.

However, the band felt they were unable to do the song justice in that time.

Um, it, it is a sharp and fast and heavy album.

Uh, and if you are looking to get into extreme music, and you've listened to the show before, but are not quite sure, and listened to the song I've put on, and you thought that's a little bit too heavy or too extreme, maybe the vocals.

Conrad's vocals on this album, o- AKA Cronos, a- a- are some of the best he did in the entire catalog he did with the band.

There is a sort of-- It's a cleaner vocal than the first album.