Conrad Lant
British metal vocalist and bassist
Conrad Thomas Lant (born 15 January 1963), also known by his stage name Cronos, is an English musician. He is the founder, vocalist, and bassist of the heavy metal band Venom.
Biography
Early life
After playing in a couple of high school bands—Dwarfstar (also featuring Kevin "Ropa" Robson - bass, Graeme "Shamus" Newton - drums and vocalist Keith "Bod" Ballard) and a short lived "futuristic metal cyberpunk" band called Album Graecum—Lant took the stage name Cronos and, in 1979, joined a band called Guillotine as a guitarist. There, he met Jeffrey Dunn, who later became Mantas. In 1979, the original bassist left one week before a church hall gig. Instead of cancelling the show, Cronos took up the bass, and they changed the band name to Venom. Cronos has since continued to play bass throughout his career in Venom. In 1980, the band's vocalist, Clive Archer (stage name Jesus Christ), left the band, leaving Cronos to take over that role as well, finalising the band as a three-piece group.
Cronos started working at a recording studio called Impulse Studios after he left school. The studio had a number of labels releasing albums by folk musicians and local TV comedians, although he eventually convinced the studio to start a label for rock bands.
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