Steve Ramsey

"For the football player of the same name see Steve Ramsey (football player)."Infobox musical artist

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Genre = Heavy metal Folk metal NWOBHM
Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Occupation = Guitarist, Songwriter
Instrument = Guitar
Associated_acts = Skyclad Satan Blind Fury Pariah Forgodsake
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Years_active = 1981 - present
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Steve Ramsey is a British guitarist who began his career with NWOBHM (New Wave of British 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 is obviously 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.

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

=Discography=

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"EP/Demo/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

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

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/officialskyclad Official Skyclad MySpace site]
* [http://pub41.ezboard.com/bofficialskycladmessageboard Official Skyclad forums]
* [http://www.myspace.com/courtintheact Satan Myspace site]