#conrad cronos lant

HE'S GONNA BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND -- ONLY UNHOLY ASHES WILL BE LEFT.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on the mighty Conrad "Cronos" Lant, bass player/vocalist/songwriter for pioneering English extreme metal band, VENOM, featured in "Power Metal" magazine in a "Picture of the Month," c. April 1989, form a photo-shoot titled "Burn This Place to the Ground." 📸: Pete Cronin.

So, apparently, this one is part of a larger photo-shoot, but this one's probably the best one in the bunch. Also, I haven't enjoyed a cigar in a very long time, and I could seriously go for one before the summer's end. Top hat and all! LOL!

A SMOKY TASTE OF THE EXTREME METAL EIGHTIES FOR THE MID '90s MUSIC-BUYING MARKE

PIC #2: Another shot of VENOM's legendary Conrad "Cronos" Lant, from the pages of "Rock Hard" magazine #088 [a German publication], published September 1994. 📸: Pete Cronin.

EXTRA INFO: These "oversized cigar" photos were reportedly taken during a September 1985 photo-shoot tied to the filming of the band's "Nightmare" music video.

cronos icons!¡

happy bday, cronos!🦇

cronos, 1985.

happy bday, cronos!🦇

VEE-EE-EN-OH [FUCKING] EM... 🎸💢🐍🇬🇧🦇💀🗡️

PICS INFO: Spotlight on Newcastle, England's darkest warriors in the entire history of extreme music -- @#!&¢*$% VENOM, plus a shot of Cronos on the four-string bulldozer bass guitar for good measure, c. early to mid 1980s.

"I borrowed a bass guitar and had to learn the songs. I only played them on the top string, but I plugged into my Marshall stack through all of my Big Muff pedals and that's when the bulldozer bass sound was invented. It created this huge raaaaaawwrrrrr! bass sound. It was like, "Oh, I'm gonna stay with this instrument!""

-- CRONOS on switching to the bass guitar, "The Last Laugh: Cronos Of Venom Interviewed," published by John Doran on October 6th, 2020

JEFF "MANTAS" DUNN FEELS ABSOLUTELY PROUD ABOUT KICKSTARTING EXTREME/BLACK METAL.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on 2/3 of English first wave black metal/proto-thrash/extreme metal band, VENOM, during the band's "Black Metal" era, c. 1983. Photo credit & location unknown.

MANTAS: "You know, every forest fire needs a spark. And I think we were the spark… we were the crowbar that knocked the doors down and said, "It's okay to do this." And am I proud of it? Absolutely. Without us… Well, without us having an album called "Black Metal," without us saying, "We are black metal," without having a song called "Black Metal," none of it would have… All these genres wouldn't have happened."

-- JEFF "MANTAS" DUNN, to "Blabbermouth," published c. August, 2015 A.D.