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Venom

Rock music

Hard rock

Heavy metal music

Part of the new wave of British heavy metal bands who emerged in the 1980s, Venom built a name for themselves with their theatrical, controversial, Satan-worshipping image making them cult underground icons and forefathers of European black metal. Bassist front man Conrad 'Cronos' Lant was brought up on The Rolling Stones and The Who and, after leaving school, pursued his musical passion by becoming a sound engineer and playing in various bands who attempted to be more extreme and intense than 1970s heavy rock titans such as Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. With friends Jeffre...