Satan's Host

Formed in Colorado toward the end of the 1970s, Satan's Host started out playing power metal. The group issued just one album, Metal from Hell, in 1986, along with an unreleased follow-up, Midnight Wind, in 1987, before deciding to split up. The murder of drummer D. Lucifer Steel (Rob Evans), together with widespread public hostility toward metal and especially toward acts using the name Satan's Host, led vocalist L.C.F. Eli Elixer to stay out of sight while preparing a comeback. That return took form in the late 1990s, beginning with the EP In Articulo Mortis in 1999 and continuing with the comeback album Archidoxes of Evil in 2000. Now operating as a black and death metal hybrid, the band went on to release three further albums over the next ten years: Burning the Born Again in 2004, Satanic Grimoire: A Greater Black Magick in 2006, and Great American ScapeGoat 666 in 2008. The most recent lineup featured Elixer on vocals, Satan Patrick Evil on guitar, D. Darcane on bass, and Pete Wicked on drums.