Death SS
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| Death SS | |
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| Origin | Italy |
| Genre(s) | Black metal Doom metal Heavy Metal Speed metal (early) Industrial metal (later)[1] |
| Years active | 1977 - 1984 1988 - present |
| Label(s) | Minotauro Records Discomagic Records Contempo Records Lucifer Rising Records Black Widow Records |
| Associated acts | Paul Chain |
| Website | deathss.com |
| Members | |
| Steve Sylvester Emil Bandera Glenn Strange Freddy Delirio Dave Simeone |
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Death SS (In Death of Steve Sylvester) is an Italian heavy metal band. Throughout their career they have played thrash metal, early black metal, and on more recent albums, industrial metal.
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[edit] Biography
Death SS was founded in 1977 by Paul Chain and Steve Sylvester. They shared the love for punk and heavy metal music, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, old black and white horror films. So they decided to form a band: Paul Chain invented the name Death SS, with the double S in pure punk spirit (so nothing to do with nazism), while Sylvester had the idea of dressing up each member as a horror movie character: lead vocalist as a Vampire, guitarists as the Death and a Zombie, bassist as a Mummy, drummer as a Werewolf. In the same period Steve was the leader of a satanic sect, while Paul was the priest at black masses.
In 1982 Steve left the band; a new vocalist, Sanctis Ghoram, was recruited and dressed up as the Necromancer, and the band lasted until 1984 when, after recording the "Evil Metal" EP, Paul Chain put an end to Death SS, detaching himself from occultism and the evil beliefs the band incarnated, and changed the name of the project to Paul Chain Violet Theatre.
Paul copyrighted nothing of the band, nor the name nor the songs, as he was the main composer of both lyrics and music, since Sylvester contributed only as lyricist while he was the vocalist of the band. So in 1988 Sylvester could reform Death SS without Paul Chain and with all new musicians. This new incarnation of Death SS would record their first full length album, ...In Death of Steve Sylvester. Their would be many line-up changes in the years to come, with Sylvester once again being the only constant.
[edit] Line-Ups
[edit] Original Line-Up (1977-1984)
- Steve Sylvester - vocals (from 1977 to 1982)
- Sanctis Ghoram - vocals (from 1982 to 1984)
- Paul Chain - guitar
- Claud Galley - guitar
- Danny Hughes - bass
- Tommy Chaste - drums
[edit] ...In Death of Steve Sylvester (1988)
- Steve Sylvester - vocals
- Christian Wise - guitar
- Kurt Templar - guitar
- Erik Landley - bass
- Boris Hunter - drums
[edit] Black Mass (1989)
- Steve Sylvester - vocals
- Kevin Reynolds - guitar
- Kurt Templar - guitar
- Marc Habey - bass
- Boris Hunter - drums
[edit] Heavy Demons (1991)
- Steve Sylvester - vocals
- Jason Minelli - guitar
- Al Priest - guitar
- Andy Barrington - bass
- Ross Lukather - drums
[edit] Do What Thou Wilt (1997)
- Steve Sylvester - vocals
- Emil Bandera - guitar
- Felix Moon - guitar
- Andrei Karloff - bass
- Oleg Smirnoff - keyboard
- Ross Lukather - drums
[edit] Panic (2000)
- Steve Sylvester - vocals
- Emil Bandera - guitar
- Kaiser Sose - bass
- Oleg Smirnoff - keyboard
- Anton Chaney - drums
[edit] Humanomalies (2002)
- Steve Sylvester - vocals
- Emil Bandera - guitar
- Kaiser Sose - bass
- Oleg Smirnoff - keyboard
- Anton Chaney - drums
[edit] The 7th Seal (2006)
- Steve Sylvester - vocals
- Emil Bandera - guitar
- Glenn Strange - bass
- Oleg Smirnoff - keyboard
- Anton Chaney - drums
[edit] Current Line-Up (2006)
- Steve Sylvester - vocals
- Emil Bandera - guitar
- Glenn Strange - bass
- Freddy Delirio - keyboard
- Dave Simeone - drums
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- ...in Death of Steve Sylvester (Discomagic/Metalmaster 1988)
- Black Mass (Discomagic/Metalmaster 1989)
- Heavy Demons (Contempo/Rosemary's Baby 1991)
- Do What Thou Wilt (Lucifer Rising 1997)
- Panic (Lucifer Rising 2000)
- Humanomalies (Lucifer Rising 2002)
- The Seventh Seal (Lucifer Rising/Black Widow Records 2006)
[edit] Live albums
- Cursed Concert (Contempo 1992)
- Il ritorno degli occulti (200 copies, Cursed Coven 1998)
- Live 1990: The Complete Black Mass Show (200 copies, Cursed Coven 2006)
[edit] Singles/EPs
- "Zombie" (band press 1982)
- "The Night of the Witch" (band press 1982)
- "The Profanation" (band press 1983)
- Evil Metal EP (Metal Eye Records 1983)
- "Kings of Evil" (Metalmaster 1989)
- "Vampire" (Metalmaster 1989)
- "In the Darkness" (Metalmaster 1989)
- Where Have You Gone? EP (Contempo 1991)
- Straight to Hell EP (Contempo 1993)
- The Cursed Singles boxset (Avantgarde Music 1995)
- "Baron Samedi" (Lucifer Rising 1998)
- "Scarlet Woman" (Lucifer Rising 1999)
- "Hi-Tech Jesus" (Lucifer Rising 2000)
- Lady of Babylon EP (Lucifer Rising 2000)
- Let The Sabbath Begin 2 CD EP (Lucifer Rising 2001)
- Transylvania (Lucifer Rising 2001)
- "Pain" (Lucifer Rising 2003)
- "Sinful Dove" (Lucifer Rising 2004)
- "Give'Em Hell" (Lucifer Rising 2005)
[edit] Compilations
- The Story of Death SS (1977-1984) (Minotauro 1987)
- Horror Music (Lucifer Rising 1996)
- The Horned God of Witches (Lucifer Rising/Black Widow Records 2004)
- Steve Sylvester - Friends of Hell (Cursed Coven 2006)
