Steve Ramsey is a British guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

 who began his career with the British heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Satan

Satan (band)

Satan are a heavy metal band originating from Newcastle, England in 1979, known as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. " Though generally obscure throughout their career, the band is considered influential for playing a form of proto-thrash metal that was fairly advanced by the...

 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

Martin Walkyier

Martin Walkyier is an English singer who began his career with thrash metal band Sabbat in the late 1980s, releasing two albums. After leaving Sabbat in 1990 due to differences with other band members, Walkyier teamed up with guitarist Steve Ramsey to form a heavy metal band with strong folk...

 (ex-Sabbat) to form a heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band with strong folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 influences, called Skyclad

Skyclad (band)

Skyclad are a British heavy metal band with heavy folk influences in their music. They are considered one of the pioneers of folk metal. The etymology behind the term "skyclad" comes from a pagan/wiccan term for ritual nudity, in which rituals are performed with the participants metaphorically clad...

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Ramsey is obviously influenced by classic hard rock

Hard rock

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 acts like Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of thirteen studio albums...

, Uriah Heep

Uriah Heep (band)

Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and regarded as a seminal classic hard rock act of the 1970s. Uriah Heep's progressive/art rock/heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and David Byron's operatic vocals...

, etc. While initially starting as a thrash metal

Thrash metal

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 band with folk influences, these "classic" roots became more and more visible in Skyclad's

Skyclad (band)

Skyclad are a British heavy metal band with heavy folk influences in their music. They are considered one of the pioneers of folk metal. The etymology behind the term "skyclad" comes from a pagan/wiccan term for ritual nudity, in which rituals are performed with the participants metaphorically clad...

 music over the years.

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

Forgodsake

-Biography:Forgodsake formed in 1990 by Kevin Ridley, Steve Wallace, Drew Gallon, Gary Binns and Chris McCormack. They recorded a demo and signed to Bleeding Hearts Records, toured with bands such as Girlschool and The Wildhearts, then released their debut album, Blasthead, in 1993...

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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

• 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

External links

• Official Skyclad MySpace site
• Official Skyclad forums
• Satan Myspace site