Sound Barrier brought real heavy metal fire to Los Angeles in the 1980s, but the industry was not ready for four Black men playing loud, sharp, serious metal.

Cronos has died. Venom, the heavy metal band the singer founded in 1995, announced his death in a Facebook post. He was 63. No cause of death was provided for Cronos, whose birth name was Conrad Lant.

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Cronos’ influence was so grand that the chances are your favorite artists would not be who they are without his cultural contributions. Pain and Hypocrisy’s Peter Tägtgren, has, of course, more than ...

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Ozzy Osbourne has died. “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning,” the Osbourne family shared in a ...

As frontman of Venom, Conrad Lant made an impact on metal to rival Black Sabbath, inspiring a whole new subgenre with his diabolical grandstanding, unruly spirit and heretic noise Conrad ‘Cronos’ Lant ...