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Venom frontman Conrad Lant dies at 63

Rank
Ran
27h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
14
Regions
2
Countries
12
Languages
12

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SVT Sweden · Swedish 1 Oct, 16:11 UTC

The first outlet on the story

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 14 after 28 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: SVT, 1 Oct, 16:11 UTC.
  2. Second country: Czechia, with iDNES.
  3. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 1 Oct, 16:11 UTC.
  4. Second region: Americas, with BioBioChile.
  5. Last article: 14 outlets.

Where it travelled

28 of 28 hours

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The 12 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

93%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 7%
  • Europe 13 outlets · 11 countries · 93%

First movers

  1. SVT 1 Oct, 16:11 UTC
  2. iDNES +25m
  3. Iltalehti +41m
  4. Dagbladet +51m
  5. BioBioChile +1h 5m

Last to join

  1. Digi24 2 Oct, 19:59 UTC
  2. G4Media 2 Oct, 19:50 UTC
  3. Õhtuleht 2 Oct, 14:30 UTC
  4. Blic 2 Oct, 10:14 UTC
  5. Postimees 2 Oct, 09:45 UTC

The figures

Coverage
14 outlets in 12 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 14 outlets, 1 public-service, 13 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Chile. Europe 11: Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Sweden. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Czech, German, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish.
Timeline
Earliest article SVT, 1 Oct 2026, 16:11 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 16:20 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 19:59 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
1 Oct 2026 323 3.77 5 5 5 5 4.0
2 Oct 2026 78 11.95 14 12 9 7 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 16:20 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 19:59 UTC

Covered by 14 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

  • BioBioChile Chile 1 Oct, 17:16 UTC
    El metal está de luto: muere a los 63 años Conrad "Cronos" Lant, líder de Venom y leyenda del género

Europe 13 outlets

  • Digi24 Romania 2 Oct, 19:59 UTC
    Conrad „Cronos” Lant, solistul trupei heavy metal Veno, a murit la vârsta de 63 de ani
  • G4Media Romania 2 Oct, 19:50 UTC
    Solistul trupei heavy metal Venom, Conrad „Cronos” Lant, a murit la vârsta de 63 de ani
  • Õhtuleht Estonia 2 Oct, 14:30 UTC
    Suri Briti hevibändi Venom laulja Conrad Lant
  • Blic Serbia 2 Oct, 10:14 UTC
    TUGA U SVETU METALA Preminuo pevač benda "Venom": Odlazak legende ekstremne muzike
  • Postimees Estonia 2 Oct, 09:45 UTC
    Legendaarse heavy metal'i bändi Venom ninamees Conrad Lant suri 63-aastaselt
  • HVG Hungary 2 Oct, 08:45 UTC
    Váratlanul meghalt a black metal névadója, Conrad Lant
  • TVN24 Poland 2 Oct, 08:43 UTC
    Nie żyje Conrad "Cronos" Lant, lider zespołu Venom
  • Der Standard Austria 2 Oct, 08:36 UTC
    Venom-Sänger und Metal-Legende Cronos gestorben
  • Il Post Italy 2 Oct, 07:45 UTC
    È morto Conrad “Cronos” Lant, bassista e cantante della band heavy metal dei Venom
  • Dagbladet Norway 1 Oct, 17:01 UTC
    Metal­legenden er død
  • Iltalehti Finland 1 Oct, 16:51 UTC
    Conrad “Cronos” Lant on kuollut
  • iDNES Czechia 1 Oct, 16:36 UTC
    Do nebe, nebo do pekla? Ve věku 63 zemřel Cronos z blackmetalové kapely Venom
  • SVT Sweden 1 Oct, 16:11 UTC
    Venoms frontman är död
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