Satan

One of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal's most convoluted family trees belongs to the band known predominantly as Satan. Besides regularly undergoing name changes (Blind Fury and Pariah were only two of the aliases employed when the group members decided their original name was compromising their chances of success), the band's history regularly intersected that of any number of competing groups out of the North East, most notably Blitzkrieg and Skyclad. The seeds of the band that would become Satan were planted in Newcastle, England toward the end of 1980, when a semi-fi...