Steve Ramsey

Steve Ramsey is a British guitarist who began his career with the heavy metal band Satan in the early 1980s, releasing a single and an album, a second album under the band name Blind Fury, an EP and another album after changing the band name back to Satan and two more albums after renaming the band name once again, to Pariah.

After the split of Pariah in 1990, he teamed up with singer Martin Walkyier (ex-Sabbat) to form a heavy metal band with strong folk influences, called Skyclad.

Ramsey has also participated in other band projects, for example as album guest and live guitarist for Forgodsake.

Ramsey is influenced by classic hard rock acts like Thin Lizzy, Uriah Heep, etc. While initially starting as a thrash metal band with folk influences, these "classic" roots became more and more visible in Skyclad's music over the years.

Discography

Satan

EPs/demos/live releases The First Demo (Demo), 1981 Into the Fire (Demo), 1982 Kiss of Death (Single), 1982 Dirt Demo '86 (Demo), 1986 Into the Future (EP), 1987 Blitzkrieg in Holland (Live), 2000 Live in the Act (Live), 2004

Studio albums Court in the Act, 1983 Suspended Sentence, 1987 Life Sentence, 2013 Atom by Atom, 2015 Cruel Magic, 2018 Early Rituals, 2020 Earth Infernal, 2022 Songs in Crimson, 2024

Blind Fury Demo '84 (Demo), 1984

Studio albums Out of Reach, 1985

Pariah

Studio albums Pariah The Kindred, 1988 Pariah Blaze of Obscurity, 1989 Pariah Unity, 1998

Skyclad

Lemming Project / Skyclad (Split), 1991 Tracks from the Wilderness (EP), 1992 Thinking Allowed? (EP), 1993 Old Rope (Compilation), 1997 Outrageous Fourtunes (EP), 1998 Classix Shape (EP), 1999 Poetic Wisdom (Compilation), 2001 Another Fine Mess (Live), 2001 Swords of a Thousand Men (Single), 2001 Live at the Dynamo (Live), 2002 History Lessens (Compilation), 2002 Jig-a-Jig (EP) 2006

Studio albums The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth, 1991 A Burnt Offering for the Bone Idol, 1992 Jonah's Ark, 1993 Prince of the Poverty Line, 1994 The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea, 1995 Irrational Anthems, 1996 Oui Avant-Garde a Chance, 1996 The Answer Machine?, 1997 Vintage Whine, 1999 Folkémon, 2000 No Daylights Nor Heeltaps (Re-recording album), 2002 A Semblance of Normality , 2004 In the... All Together, 2009