Satan (band)

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Satan
Satan 2013 at the Belgian Alcatraz Festival in Kortrijk
Satan 2013 at the Belgian Alcatraz Festival in Kortrijk
General information
origin Newcastle upon Tyne , England
Genre (s) New Wave of British Heavy Metal , Thrash Metal , Power Metal
founding 1979, 2004, 2011
resolution approx. 1993, 2004
Website http://www.satanmusic.com
Current occupation
Graeme English
Sean Taylor
Russ Tippins
Electric guitar
 Steve Ramsey
Brian Ross
former members
Electric bass
 Steven Bee
Drums
 Ian McCormack
Drums
 Andy Reed
singing
 Trevor Robinson
singing
 Andrew Frepp
singing
 Michael Jackson
singing
 Steve Allsop
singing
 Ian Swift
singing
 Lou Taylor
Drums
 Phil Brewis
Electric guitar
 Gary "Ecky" Westgate
singing
 Alan Hunter

Satan is an English New Wave of British Heavy Metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne , which was founded in 1979, split up around 1993, got together for a gig in 2004 and has been regularly active again since 2011. In the meantime she also called herself Pariah or Blind Fury .

history

The band was formed in 1979 by guitarists Russ Tippins and Steve Ramsey, followed by singer Andrew Frepp, bassist Steven Bee and drummer Andy Reed. At their first concert the band played four covers: Paranoid by Black Sabbath , Pinhead by Ramones , Motörhead by Motörhead and Doctor Doctor by UFO or Holiday in Cambodia by Dead Kennedys . Graeme English joined the band as the new bass player in 1981 and Paul Smith later became the new vocalist. The first live appearances followed with the new singer Trevor Robinson. As a result, the group gained increased attention and came into contact with the Guardian Records and Tapes label . The band then recorded their first demo in November 1981 in a Durham studio , which consisted of four songs. Two of these songs, The Executioner and Oppression , were made available for the Roxcalibur sampler . The other two songs Kiss of Death and Heads Will Roll are included on the single Kiss of Death , which was released in 1982. Then came as the new drummer Ian McCormack to the cast, who replaced Read. Trevor Robinson was replaced by Lou Taylor before he was replaced by Ian Swift. Then the demo Into the Fire was recorded. Six of the seven songs appeared on the debut album Court in the Act . Only pull the trigger was not included. This song later ended up on the Blitzkrieg album of the same name . Through the demo, the band reached a contract with Roadrunner Records , about which the album Court in the Act should be released. Before the album recordings, Swift left the band again, so Brian Ross of Avenger and Blitzkrieg could be heard on the album as a singer. McCormack had also left the band and was replaced by Sean Taylor. After the release, Ross left the band again for Blitzkrieg and was replaced by the returning Lou Taylor in 1984. In order not to be associated with the black metal scene, the band discussed a name change in the summer of 1984 and a few months later the decision for Blind Fury was made. Eventually the album Out of Reach was created . The band also stated that Court in the Act vom Kerrang! was panned and the, according to their own statements, still young and inexperienced musicians thought they had done something wrong; then the band renamed itself Blind Fury and "almost degenerated into Lou Taylor's backing band [...]". After that Taylor had to leave the band again and the group took on the name Satan again, as many old fans did not want to accept the name change and a success increasingly failed. The group also lost their contract with Roadrunner Records. Michael Jackson joined the band as a new singer. In 1986 the band released the demo Dirt Demo '86 , whereby they reached a contract with the German label Steamhammer Records . The next album, Suspended Sentence, followed in 1987 . Various concerts followed, including with Running Wild in Germany. In the following year, the group then renamed Pariah and released the album The Kindred in 1988. The sound carrier was produced by Roy Rowland . The next album, Blaze of Obscurity , was produced by the band itself and recorded at Horus Studios . The album was released in 1989 but did not satisfy the label, which meant the cancellation. From then on, Ramsey and English devoted themselves primarily to the new Skyclad project , which they set up together with ex- Sabbath member Martin Walkyier and for which they had a new style with violins in mind. In 1993 another album was recorded in Link Studios and in their own rehearsal room. The band consisted of guitarists Steve Ramsey and Russ Tippins, bassist Graeme English, drummer Ian McCormack and singer Alan Hunter. Since the band split up before it was released, the album remained unreleased until 1998.

On August 6, 2004 the band gave their first concert in 20 years at the Wacken Open Air with the classic line-up of the album Court in the Act . In 2004, the Blind Fury album Out of Reach and the live album Live in the Act were re-released . In 2011, seven years after the one-time appearance at the Wacken Open Air, the band finally got together again and played concerts again and performed at festivals such as the Keep It True . A new album was announced in 2012 and was released via Listenable Records in 2013 to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the debut .

The live album Trail of Fire - Live in North America , with which the band documents their first tour through North America, was released just in time for the second US tour in October 2014. It is not a continuous recording, but a compilation of the six Concerts that have taken place in six cities in six states. The second studio album since the band reunited, Atom by Atom , was released on October 2, 2015 via Listenable Records . Like Life Sentence before , the album was recorded at First Avenue Studios in Newcastle upon Tyne and mixed by Dario Mollo . As with the last two LPs, the cover artwork comes from Eliran Kantor .

Music genre

Court in the Act "was one of the heaviest albums ever recorded - even within the rapidly developing New Wave of British Heavy Metal." It borders on Thrash Metal , which was only emerging in 1983 , accordingly the speed of Break Free 1983 was compared by Bernard Doe in Metal Forces with that of Metallica and with the comment “pure metal up your ass” on the original title of their debut album Kill 'Em All alluded to; other pieces are more accessible and held at a medium tempo. From an anglophile perspective, the band, along with Raven , Jaguar and Blitzkrieg, are considered the inventors of speed metal . The album is also seen as an influence on Power Metal . As Doe pointed out, despite their name, the band was not part of Black Metal ; it did not deal with satanic content, but focused on revenge, terror and breaking the law. Ramsey believes the band's punk roots are still there.

Ralf from The Metal Observer compared the style of the successor Out of Reach , published under the name Blind Fury, stylistically with Satan and Cloven Hoof and described it as epic, fast, NWoBHM-influenced Power Metal with rough vocals. Eduardo Rivadavia sees the album as the result of an ambivalence between the continuation of the metal tradition and commercial orientation, the latter being easy to remember in pieces such as Do It Loud , Contact Rock and Roll and Dynamo with “compact length, secure arrangements and anthemic, easy-to-remember Refrains ”manifest. On the other hand, the theme song and the queensrÿche- like Dance of the Crimson Lady, Pt. 1 with dramatic sounds, synthesizers and the latter piece also a fantasy text about epic metal that is hardly compatible with the top 40.

The first album, The Kindred , recorded under the name Pariah, is heavier than the predecessor Suspended Sentence , recorded again as Satan , but at the same time also more catchy; here the band played a "combination of the unmistakable Satan sound and certain elements from the field of speed / thrash metal (staccator riffs)", and "[i] m reference to the lyrics, the quintet is tackling some hot topics again this time" . According to Holger Andrae from Powermetal.de, however, the band here was “a bit of a stylistic search as I felt [...]. This is then completed a year later and so in 1989 the quintet with 'Blaze Of Obscurity' is in excellent shape. This album offers everything a friend of melodically driving electric guitar rock would like to hear: The incomparably great guitar duels of Messrs. Tippins and Ramsey, the constantly pumping bass playing by Mister English, the rock-hard drumming technology of Uncle Taylor and the powerful hoarse vocals of Michael Jackson. All ingredients that were already heard on previous albums - with the exception of Michael's vocals - but not in this captivating quality. ”The style on Blaze of Obscurity ranges between“ eccentric ”NWoBHM and complex Thrash Metal. The last Pariah album Unity was described by Fierce of Vampster as "a really good, if inconspicuous melodic power metal album, which only comes into its own after a few listenings"; The album "[from] the air [...] most likely reminded him of the last Riot albums, especially when it comes to honesty. Like RIOT, PARIAH in no way need to ingratiate themselves with any trends, but primarily value simple song structures and fine melodies, which you just can't get out of your ear after the third time at the latest. […] As far as the instrumental side is concerned, PARIAH certainly doesn't sound as dodgy as it did in the SATAN era, but the band also lets it down from time to time, that is, hard riffs and double bass are used as well as acoustic guitars But you don't even get involved in complicated breaks, so that the song is clearly in the foreground in front of the musicians. "

The albums since the band's reunion in 2011 are often described by both the band themselves and the press as direct musical sequels to Court in the Act . Satan rely on a raw, unadulterated sound. Oliver Weinsheimer from Deaf Forever magazine writes about the 2015 album Atom by Atom : "The disc sounds as if the listener was sitting in the middle of the live experience".

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Cruel Magic
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than Satan

as Blind Fury

  • Demo '84 (Demo, 1984, self-published)
  • Out of Reach (album, 1985, Roadrunner Records)

as Pariah

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Anonymous: Satan . In: Metal Hammer , 4/1984, p. 7.
  3. ↑ a b c Bernard Doe: SATAN . Court In The Act . In: Metal Forces , No. 2, 1983, accessed January 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Satan. Court In The Act . In: Rock Hard , No. 122, July 1997, p. 118.
  5. ↑ News page in Rock Power , 7/1984, p. 32.
  6. ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 70 f .
  7. ↑ Anonymous: Tape Terror (rubric). In: Metal Hammer , 11/1986, p. 34.
  8. ^ Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days . Iron Pages, Berlin 1995, p. 53 ff .
  9. ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 349 f .
  10. ↑ a b c Tim Hofmann: Music from the refrigerated shelf. Pariah . In: Rock Hard , 11/1994, p. 107.
  11. ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 312 .
  12. ↑ SATAN Perform Live For First Time In 20 Years: Photos Available , August 6, 2004, accessed January 24, 2013.
  13. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 25, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.satanmusic.com
  14. ↑ New album! , August 22, 2012, accessed January 24, 2013.
  15. ↑ Satan Sign With LISTENABLE Records, Reveal New Album Title , November 30, 2012, accessed January 24, 2013.
  16. ↑ Life Sentence available now! , April 29, 2013, accessed May 8, 2013.
  17. ↑ Satan Announce "Satan's Fall Tour," August 22, 2014, accessed September 17, 2014.
  18. ^ Matthias Mader: Review of Satan: Trail of Fire - Live in North America . In: Rock Hard , No. 333, February 2015, p. 96.
  19. ↑ SATAN Announce New Album Title, Tracklist , June 15, 2015, accessed September 17, 2014.
  20. ↑ a b c Eduardo Rivadavia: Court in the Act - Satan , accessed January 24, 2013.
  21. ^ Dan Marsicano: Satan - Court In The Act Review , accessed January 24, 2013.
  22. ^ Matthias Mader: Satan . Who invented it? . In: Rock Hard , No. 313, June 2013, p. 46.
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  24. ↑ Ralf: Blind Fury - Out Of Reach , accessed on January 24, 2013.
  25. ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Out of Reach - Blind Fury , accessed January 24, 2013.
  26. ^ Buffo: Pariah . The Kindred . In: Metal Hammer / Crash , June 1998, p. 60.
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  28. ↑ Ralf: Pariah - Blaze Of Obscurity , accessed January 24, 2013.
  29. ↑ Fierce: PARIAH: Unity , accessed on January 25, 2013.
  30. ^ Raphael Päbst: Headbangers Open Air 2015 - Brande-Hörnerkirchen , August 13, 2015, accessed on September 17, 2015
  31. ↑ Keyser: Satan pour le Fall Of Summer , July 30, 2015, accessed September 17, 2015
  32. ↑ a b Oliver Weinsheimer: Review of Satan: Atom by Atom . In: Deaf Forever # 7, August 2015.
  33. ↑ Yiannis Kakavas Satan: Atom by Atom , September 11, 2015, accessed September 17, 2015
  34. ↑ Satan in the German charts