With their proto-thrash metal, the long-lived Satan are a staple on the British metal scene. One of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal's most convoluted family trees belongs to them. 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. After disbanding formally in 1989, they went in separate dir...