Metal School - Satan (ft. Blind Fury / Pariah) 

Brian Ross is one of the best voices from the NWOBHM movement. Not only was he awesome with Satan, but also with Blitzkrieg.

For me, Court In The Act is not just the greatest NWOBHM album, but the greatest Metal album ever made period.

As we see in this comment section, Michael Jackson is such an underrated singer. I love his tone and his era is still my favorite Satan/Pariah Era.

"Court In the Act" is such a barnstorming NWOBHM classic

I am requesting FIFTH ANGEL (USA) as the next metal lesson 🤘🏻🔥🔥

Satan is the #1 underrated and under-appreciated heavy metal band. They deserve the success and recognition of Priest and Maiden. For me, Satan, Mercyful Fate and Angel Witch and the peak of heavy metal.

Amazing band, with a stupid name that has haunted them forever. Court is a stone cold classic of course but it's the quality of their output since Life Sentence which really stands out imo. They are by far the best NWoBHM band in the 2000s.

Court in the Act is one of my favorite albums of all time

Thank you! Love this band, no bad album in their discography🤘

Satan getting a Michael Jackson to sing for them always cracks me up 8)

What can we possibly say about these guys to even scratch the surface of their majesty and importance? Uncle Brian, one of my all favourites!

This is cool. Seen Satan live for the first time like a year ago, and it was killer. Satan is still churning out classic albums. Helstar would be a cool one, for Metal school, to cover. The music for Helstar, is similar to Satan, and they are both underrated. Satan was probably a influence to Helstar. Thanks for the video...Cheeers!!!

Just discovered this band last year! I've always wondered where they came from❤

Man, I am hearing SO MUCH early Blind Guardian in these guys! You can definitely hear where Hansi got his inspiration. Thanks for introducing me to these guys 🤘🏻

michael Jackson rules !

I've been waiting for his video for a long time and it was worth the wait. I love this band so much and they deserve alot more exposure. I hope this video helps to get more fans. My favourite Brian Ross era songs : Blades of Steel Alone in the Dock Incantations Atom by Atom The Fall of Persophone Ghosts of Monongah Twelve Infernal Lords From the Michael Jackson era: The Ice Man Avalanche of a Million Souls Gerrymander Missionary of Mercy

I am officially requesting Malice as the next metal lesson !!! 🤘

First i got say thanks for this episode, love everything satan has recorded including the demos ! Court in the act is a classic, brian ross is a great vocalist and a legend , Michael Jackson is also a great vocalist they both brought a good flavor to the band . Pariah albums are also amazing ! Blind fury i like it . I do own all this records , but i got to say that Steve Ramsey is a beast of a guitar player and a driving force in the band ,no disrespect to to all the members of the band past and present. His guitar playing and ideas are amazing.Too bad Steve has not received the respect he deserves. I am still blasting this music all the time on my stereo and i am 49 years old .LONG LIVE THE NWOBHM!!!! 🤘AND THANKS AGAIN BROTHER.

"right in the docket" - Dude, this is why I love your videos so much. Satan has such a great redemption arc. In fact, I'd say their reunion albums were better than the 80s stuff. All those years and other bands really seemed to hone the musicianship. I think it's awesome they got to live their metal dreams out. Very deserving dudes.

Satan and Wolf, great bands from Newcastle. Sometimes I feel that if these bands were from London they could have had more support. Court in the act is such a killer album!

Your docus are awesome, doesnt matter what band i like them all.

Life Sentence is definitely my favorite Satan album. I've always enjoyed their albums, but I just can't get enough of Life Sentence.

Ramsey and English are an amazing duo here and in Skyclad.🤟

Newcastle has definitely given us some of the Most impressive & amazing British Metal Bands in these last 45 years, and being among the last great New Wave Of British Heavy Metal bands to enjoy even greater success than when they were younger, #Satan definitely knows how to keep their momentum going despite their brief attempts to change their names & even their style at the end of the 1980s; besides, both “Court in the Act” & “Life Sentence” are absolute Gems ☺️ 😊 😉 🎸 👍 🤘 😻 🥲 🤩 💯 👍

Nice, one of my requests is finally here 🤘

Saw them live last year with Haunt and Night Demon as the openers they were amazing in person

Band that still makes great albums!

Always pretty nice to see a new video in the series Metal School. Don't matter the band you cover, all your episodes ROCK! Keep up the great work, I'm a fan from the beginning! Btw. I had the single Kiss of Death/Heads will Roll (1982) back in the day. Looong time ago.

I finally managed to see Satan live, in northern Portugal, on Jan 14th 2023. From 1985 to 97, i co-directed a regional weekly Metal radioshow, called Metallic Nights (a discreet, low-profile name, thought not to cause waves, and endure through time). In 87, during a French holiday where i proceeded to refill the stock, i found ''Suspended sentence''; once returned, the team reckoned there were 92 brilliant seconds of music on a short track, that screamed bloody exquisite radio-intro! So, for ten years in a row the ''92nd symphony'' was our characteristic opener. I't's the perfect corker. Metal majestic power. But the whole album is like that. Though my heart is with Luso-paganism, ... uh... hail.... Satan. PostScriptum.- Enthralled by the memory, it'd still be unforgivable not to highlight the (customary yet always high standard) quality of yet another MetalSchool lecture. I'm enrolling for the exam on one of my favourite subjects. NWOBHM.

As someone who is utterly obsessed with all facets of this band (No matter the name or lineup), this was GREAT! Well done. I have EVERYTHING this band has ever put out ( including some bootlegs) except for the guardian demo. Been trying to track that down for years.

Your best Metal School ever. Of course, it helps when you have the best metal band ever as your subject.

Satan's Court in the Act and Cities Annihilation Absolute are two Albums that were So Good and Slightly Off Center of other Bands at the Time that they were just in a League of their Own and Over the Heads of the Listening Majority at the time of Release.

I will get all of Pariah albums. 😀👍🎸🤘

Outstanding choice! A band with zero bad albums and no other band sounds remotely like them, despite being a "traditional metal band". Is it weird that Metal School is effectively my favorite TV show at this point? I mean...your videos are outstanding, but what does that say about modern television? Anywho, keep those great videos coming!

Skyclad also featured Martin Walkier on vocals, from Sabbat, one of the greatest UK Thrash bands ever. Sabbat also had a guitar player named Andy Sneap. Wonder whatever became of him?

Satan is so classic!!

Life Sentence is a perfect 10 of an album. I guess you can say the devil finally gets his due. Well done Satan.

1 of The GREAT NWOBHM Bands🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

92nd Symphony is just cool, man. Never heard anything like that.

I really like those first two Pariah albums, and "Court In The Act" is obviously a classic. Most of the newer Satan stuff is really good, too! Thanks for the video!

Lack of consistency seemed to hold this band back I the early days. I'm officially asking for a video on Sentenced from Finland. As always your work is greatly appreciated and enjoyable

Court In The Act really was a headf*ck back when released. As a guitar player, I loved it. Great songs! I never liked the production, tbh. On the other hand, we have the unbelievable great music. So... I just ordered the re-released CD. Because it is 2024 and I need it.

Cruel Magic and Earth Infernal are definitely my fav albums, going with your ratings I would put them both as 12/10. Cruel Magic has a more raw feel to it, whereas Earth Infernal is a little slower, but heavier and more mysterious. Having listened to all their songs countless times, it's clear that after Life Sentence, all subsequent albums brought something new and all have their own unique feel to them, while retaining the core Satan essence. Also good to highlight their eloquent lyrics with many metaphors and deeper meanings, which I adore. All in all, my top favorite music of all time, definitely.

Love the videos, if u have the time i would like to see one made about Kai Hansen, who has been apart and helped quite alot of bands, for an example he created bands like helloween, iron savior and gamma ray and helped some bands on different albums like Blind guardian, avantasia and Angra :).

I saw them Mar 24, 2023. Took pictures with them.

They hold up live and recorded til today in 2024 !!

Broken Treaties, Life Sentence and Incantations are my fave tunes

Atom by Atom Earth Infernal Newer albums are getting better & better!!!

Awesome! Been hoping for an episode on Satan - one of my favorite bands! Love the channel!

Excellent excellent excellent !!! Outstanding video, thank you!

I still have my original Court In The Act LP I purchased in the early 80's. I was most recently totally blown away by the Cruel Magic release. Then I picked up Life Sentence followed by Earth Infernal. I have to say though I am still blown away by Cruel Magic which makes that my favorite of the 4 Satan releases I have. 🤘

Really cool you got to cover Satan, along with the Blind Fury stuff too.

Brian Ross doesn't sound similar as in his youth but THE SAME! Have seen them 2 years ago in Bucharest. A lesson of professionalism, passion and talent for the new bands. Fantastic concert. They are very happy every time they see fans asking for picks, sticks and signatures.

It's a shame that Mike Jackson never joined another metal band after his departure. I really dig his unique, raspy singing on the Satan and Pariah albums.

I listened to Court In the Act fairly often through the 80's and ever since for that matter. Satan is one of the best NWOBHM bands ever. It's great finally seeing them get the recognition they have so richly deserved for decades.

Cool! I love learning about new bands. And Court in the Act has such an AWESOME cover

Your videos are great! But you should really do Tokyo Blade or Praying Mantis. Im surprised you havent done a video about them yet

This is such a great tribute to my young years! I was just allowed into hardrockcafé Dynamo (I was 14 at the time) and Satan / Blind Fury was sort of the regular band there at the time. So cool that you showed their tribute to the Dynamo-café in the form of the Blind Fury-song ‘Dynamo’! Oh man those great times. So grateful I was there….

One Of The best comebacks ever. Btw, "Evil Eyes" by BLIND FURY is one Of the best songs the band (with the name you want) Made... one piece Of data, Ian Swift replaced Brian in AVENGER, wich Brian was a founding member.

Never heard of Pariah, Thanks Bro for turning me on to this GREAT Band 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

MERCI

Alone In The Dock was a phenomenal song.

Great choice. This group was a fave back in the day. Would love to have those records back.

This is what I grew up with!

their modern stuff is really good

Awesomeness!!

this is a new one for me,kicks ass awesome guitar work

Court in the Act was such a great album

I saw these guys play a show in Columbus, Ohio in the spring of 2023 with Haunt and Night Demon. They were an absolutely phenomenal live act, and one of the best I've ever seen. The two guitarists were soloing in tandem and playing so perfectly, I couldn't believe that what I was seeing/hearing was real. And they were HEAVY as HELL. Unfortunately, there were some pinheads in the crowd who yelled ''freebird'' in between songs. But Brian Ross was a professional, and just let it roll off his back. As they were playing, I couldn't help but think about the many bands out there with more notoriety, but far less talent, who charge a fortune for far less of a show. Satan deserve to be better known. Their songs are catchy, heavy, and have interesting lyrics. They are one of the all-time great bands in all of Heavy Metal, and if you get a chance, catch their show, they rule!!!

Sounds like a whole lotta badass to me. Thanks!

Demon feels like an appropriate one to do after this. Don’t Break the Circle!

Many thanks for all the bands I've discovered because of you

Another great little metal documentary! Satan rocks!

This is one of the bands I think of, whenever I think of the New Wave British Heavy Metal! 🇬🇧🎸🤘

Incredible band! I got introduced to them and Angel Witch on the same day, while searching Blogspot for some download links to old school heavy metal back in my early 20s. Needless to say, I was hooked on both from the beginning, and seeing both of them eventually return in such a spectacular fashion has been nothing short of amazing. I feel like the material they've put out post-reunion is actually their strongest they've done (goes for both bands). That being said, while I've been aware of both Blind Fury and Pariah, I've never really given them the attention they deserve. Might need to go and rectify that now... As always, love your videos, looking forward to the next one, whatever band that will be!

Another amazing video...😃👍🤘🤘

Love my cd 2in 1 Into the future and Suspended sentence, what an eargasm....

Court in the Act is a bloody perfect album mate!!!!!!!

Металлическая гвардия тут. Комментарий в поддержку канала!

Great! a 51:45 Metal School video.

The relationship between the bands Satan, Blitzkrieg and Avenger is interesting.

One the best heavy metal of the world.

This recent run of albums is unfuckwithable!

Next on Metal School : Seattle's NEVERMORE 🇺🇲

I think B. G. "Battalions of fear" sounds very similar to Satan's " Suspended sentence" and "Into the future".

Wild episode this time !

I won't get tired of saying it: you are fucking amazing. Thank you so, so much for your impressive work. Metallic greetings from Spain.

Satan has been so underrated as a band in metal history. They deserve much more success. Both Brian and Michael are unique in their singing. I love Missionary of Mercy and Blaze of Obscurity equally as Farewell Evolution or Siege Mentality. Long Live Satan and Pariah 🖤🤘

The most consistent guitar duo of all time.

SATAN??? Never heard of them before.

During covid, I startes digging into the history and origins of metal. Court in the Act totally blew my mind when I heard it. Compared to what was happening in the metal world when the record came out, these guys were really pushing boundaries. Listen to "The Ritual" and tell me that sounds like 1983 to you! Amazing band, shame they didn't get the recognition they deserved.

Fantastic video again

Thank you for the life sentence brother man!!!

We have already placed bets on whether the next will be Anvil or Fates warning even though PsychoticWaltz or Heir apparent doesn't bother me at all!!!!!

can you do a video about Blue Cheer, i would love a video about them. keep up the good work you have been doing!🤘

Great episode! How about a Skyclad episode?

Great video! You should do one dedicated to Skyclad. Cheers!

you always pick the best bands!

I would like to see heaven gate as the next lesson!! Underrated and no one has covered them! Would definitely love to know more about them!

Another interesting band I don't think I've ever heard until now. Great playing and very solid, melodic heavy songwriting. I really like the somewhat raw and honest production of the later Satan albums. No typewriter drums or plastic modern feel. The late 80s Pariah stuff was also pretty good. Maybe not exactly what I'm into these days, but it reminds me of some of the energetic thrashy stuff I listened to back then.