Lant, Conrad

Youth

Lant was born in London . After participating in the Dwarfstar school group (from the English "Dwarf Star"), Lant joined the Guillotine group (from the English "Guillotine") in 1978. In it, he became a guitarist and met Jeffrey Dunn (also known under the pseudonym Mantas). In 1980, the original bass player left the band a week before the concert, and Lant started playing bass guitar parts, and the band changed its name to “Venom”. In 1981, vocalist Clive Archer left the band, and Lant also assumed the vocalist's duties. Since that time, he has been performing bass and vocals in the Venom band.

Solo career

Lant left Venom in 1988, becoming a solo career, periodically participating in groups of the same genre as Venom . For example: Cronos , Enthroned , Cradle of Filth (Kronos read the final monologue for the song "Haunted Shores", the album Dusk ... and Her Embrace ), Warpath , Massacre and Necrodeath . He also produced some of the albums of other groups.

They tried to continue Venom without Kronos, but their albums sold poorly, and few people came to concerts. In 1995, Kronos revived the original Venom lineup, and the band headlined the Dynamo Festival in 1996, before 90,000 fans.

Last Activity

In 2000, the group became the headliners of the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany and played a concert in the Netherlands, after which the group was forced to take a break, as Kronos fell from a great height in 2002. Due to this injury, he could not sing and play bass for several more years. ^[2] To pass the time, Kronos began to engage in game programming and 3D-modeling. He worked as the main multimedia manager at K-Class Systems and Globalfibre.tv.

Around 2003, Kronos re-assembled Venom with his brother drummer, under the pseudonym Antton, and rookie Michael Alan Hickey. After several years of preparation and intense training, Venom released Metal Black in early 2006 and embarked on a world tour. Also, Venom became headliners at the Gods of Metal 2006 festival (Italy) and performed their classic song “Die Hard” together with Phil Anselmo , a member of Pantera and Down . Also, Kronos participated in the side project of Dave Grohl - Probot , in 2004.

Some sources say that Kronos is the brother of Mary Lant - the mother of the Duchess of Cambridge , ^[3] however this is nothing more than a hoax. The mother of the Duchess of Cambridge is not Mary Lant, but Carol Goldsmith Middleton. ^[four]

Equipment

Bass Guitars:

• Aria Pro II SB1000 (Matte Black with Natural Stripe)
• Aria Pro II SB1000 (Red with Natural Stripe)
• Ibanez Destroyer Bass (Red Finish)
• Gibson EB-0 SG Bass (Van Halen styled Finish)
• Steinberger Bass (Burgandy / Brown Finish)
• Fender Jazz Bass (Black Finish / with LED Lights)
• Fender Jazz Bass (Red Finish / with LED lights)
• Fernandes 4 String Tremor Bass (Black Finish / w \ Custom Neck)
• Fernandes 4 String Tremor Bass (Burgandy Finish / w \ Custom Neck)

Kronos had 2 more bass guitars. They can be seen on the DVD, which comes with the Deluxe version of the Black Metal album. They were destroyed.

On many Kronos bass guitars, the fretboard is half fretless (after the 12th fret).

Amplifiers:

• Marshall amps

Venom

• Welcome to Hell (1981)
• Black Metal (1982)
• At War with Satan (1983)
• Possessed (1985)
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1986)
• Calm Before the Storm (1987)
• Cast in Stone (1997)
• Resurrection (2000)
• Metal Black (2006)
• Hell (2008)
• Fallen Angels (2011)
• From The Very Depths (2015)

Cronos

• Dancing in the Fire (1990)
• Rock n 'Roll Disease (1991)
• Venom (1995)
• Hell to the Unknown (2006) - Anthology

Other

• Dusk ... and Her Embrace by Cradle of Filth (1996) - final monologue in the song "Haunted Shores"
• Probot (2004) - vocals and bass in the song "Centuries of Sin"
• Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken of HammerFall (2005) - vocals in the song “Knights of the 21st Century”