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 standards of the early 1980s. The group is listed as active, due to their announced reunion with Brian Ross in 2005 Their line-up has undergone a number of personnel changes and even changes in band name; for a time the band was called Blind Fury, putting out one album, 1985's Out of Reach, under that moniker before reverting back to Satan. In 1988 the group changed its name again to The Kindred and then yet again to Pariah, releasing two albums under that name before folding in the early 90's. In 1997 Pariah released another album. The band's shifting lineup has included members of many other heavy metal bands such as Blitzkrieg, Rough Edge, Pariah, Atomkraft, Avenger, Persian Risk, Cronos and Battleaxe. In 1990, Steve Ramsey (guitar) and Graeme English (bass) together with singer Martin Walkyier of UK thrash metal band Sabbat founded folk metal band Skyclad.

..Gods of Metal, Gods of War, Gods of Glory, Gods of Honor... We call upon thee to reveal our true Master for we are in Peril surrounded by disaster. The Human Plague has reached it's peak, for Hypocrisy is all they speak. Truth has no meaning, why live anymore? We raise our swords high, we where our armor. We Declare war on Humanity, We Declare war on Christianity, We Declare war on all things False. But what is this? He is here. Our Savior, the King of Fear. Riding Panthor with his Staff held high. Lighting strikes, he yells his battle cry "Give Me Metal or Give Me Death." We The Warrior's of Genocide will do his every command, for those who Defy him they will die by his hand. He will defile, He will prevail! Behold his Red Omen, behold his prophecy, for once it is completed, good rid of Humanity... ALL PRAISE THE MIGHTY SKELATOR!!!!

Jeff Black formed Gatekeeper in the dismal haze of 2010 as a spitting retort to everything happening on a musical level in the frost-kissed prairies of Alberta. In a land dominated by blast beats, scooped mids and vocalists who couldn't find a melody in a shopping bag, Gatekeeper stands upright and unchained, continuing the legacy laid down by such luminaries as Robert E. Howard, Bathory, Frank Frazetta, Manowar, Candlemass and Manilla Road. If your interests lie in the direction of things ancient, lost and far away, Gatekeeper might be for you. If not? Good riddance.