{"id":1129,"date":"2026-10-02T16:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T14:39:05","slug":"conrad-cronos-lant-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"Conrad “Cronos” Lant Died"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t find out until today, but one of my all-time metal heroes died yesterday – Conrad “Cronos” Lant, bassist and singer of archetypal black\/thrash metal band Venom. My username on many sites is either cronos or cronos42, I wrote dozens of stories with a spiritual child called Cronos Warchild1<\/a><\/sup>I started using the ‘Warchild’ name 5 years before the Warchild organisation came to be<\/span>, and my nickname in the 80s\/90s computer scene was Cronos. I met (and interviewed) him in 1996<\/a>, and saw him perform with Venom that year, and a year before, and one final time in 2017. I was much impressed by him, and until James Hetfield came along I thought he was the coolest dude ever.<\/p>\n

I feel too gutted and uninspired to write much more here, other than to observe that it might have been much cooler had he died 2 days earlier (on International Blasphemy Day), and that the Horned Lord from Downstairs will now probably be drinking a glass of virgin’s blood with him. Hell yeah.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a>‘s a tribute that is better than mine, which I wish I would have written (thanks to Rich “Felice” Spowart for telling me about it).
\nAnd here<\/a>‘s the video that solidified Venom in my mind as one of the awesomest bands on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t find out until today, but one of my all-time metal heroes died yesterday – Conrad “Cronos” Lant, bassist and singer of archetypal black\/thrash metal band Venom. My username on many sites is either cronos or cronos42, I wrote … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karsmakers.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}