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	BNR Metal Pages -- Skyclad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Skyclad was formed in 1990 by the pair of Martin Walkyier and Steve Ramsey, Walkyier fresh from his departure from the highly regarded thrash band Sabbat and Ramsey (along with third partner Graeme English) formerly of Satan and Pariah.
		Their goal was to blend hardened metal with a folk influence, and in doing so they came up with one of the most original and interesting sounds in some time.
		Though this appeared to be a serious blow to the band, the remaining members refused to throw in the towel, recruiting vocalist/guitarist Kevin Ridley to take over the lead vocalist role.
	www.bnrmetal.com /groups/skyc.htm (271 words)

	Skyclad (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The band takes their name from the practice of ritual nudity of the wiccan religion, where rituals will be performed with the participants literally clad only by the sky, as a sign of equality.
		The bands polemics are often based on real experiences: In an interview, Walkyier recalled a point in the bands early days where his electricity meter reached 19 pence, and he was reduced to sharing cold baked bean sandwiches with guitarist Steve Ramsey.
		Skyclad's politics are generally left wing, with a strong working-class bent, although the band is by no means entirely liberal: "Men of Straw" and "Catherine at the Wheel" amongst others show a strong, zero-tolerance attitude to child abuse, and "Ten Little Kingdoms" is anti-devolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skyclad_(band) (1028 words)

	Skyclad - Satan Stole My Teddybear
		Skyclad's somewhat shaky 1991 debut was a mixed bag of precision and slicing thrash mixed with a hint of their future, a blended sound of thrash, speed metal and folk influence.
		Skyclad is a great example of a fantastic band whose been releasing consistently good albums for nearly eight years without seeing much stateside distribution.
		It is fully understandable for a band to wish to continue when one person leaves the band to pursue other things, but when that departing member is highly identifiable and quite the character at that, it becomes a daunting challenge for the remaining members to establish a strong identity.
	www.ssmt-reviews.com /db/searchrev.php?artistID=1036&showReview=true (2864 words)

	Skyclad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the folk metal band of the same name, see Skyclad (band).
		In Wicca, skyclad properly means "naked outdoors", though it is frequently used to mean nudity anywhere.
		Although some hereditary witches claim that their families have always practiced skyclad, nudity was probably introduced into witchcraft by Gerald Gardner, the father of Wicca, who was a nudist and insisted his coven practice nude.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skyclad (288 words)

	METALEATER.COM - Features - Skyclad
		MAIDEN was undeniably the band of the 80s, releasing a string of seven classic albums, and one of the greatest live albums of all time.
		SKYCLAD have totally shifted to the folk-side of the spectrum, with only "Eirenarch" and "Fainting By Numbers" hinting at their metal past.
		To the band's credit, the live tracks do justice to the studio versions, but the only reason to buy this collection would be for the four bonus tracks, taken from the rare, out-of-print "Outrageous Fourtunes EP".
	www.metaleater.com /features-skyclad07142005.php (2035 words)

	Metal Invader - The True Metal Experience
		Anyhow, for a while the future of the band seemed uncertain, as their ex singer Martin Walkyier, left them, out of the blue, to go on and form his own pagan project and try to fund it from his favourite pastime, printing and selling metal and obscene T-shirts.
		Now as September beckons SKYCLAD are just about to unleash their new opus commercially (since a few copies made it into the circulation earlier than the official release date), entitled “A Semblance of Normality”.
		I think there was a lot of tension between some of the band members before, but at this point I wasn’t in the actual band partnership so I wasn’t involved with the money side of things or the running of the band, which is where, I think, most of the problems came from.
	www.metal-invader.com /interviews_95.html (4333 words)

	Skyclad - The Answer Machine - review @ Tartareandesire.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Even though this is one of the softest Skyclad albums it still shows all the wonderful trademarks of the band - humorous and witty lyrics, beautiful melodies with flutes and fiddles and, this time not as much as before, heavy metal rhythms.
		Today there are quite a few bands mixing folk music with metal but there are extremely few who do it as well as the British people that make up Skyclad.
		As I've already told you this is perhaps the softest Skyclad album so far and this leads to some of the songs being a little bit boring in the end.
	www.tartareandesire.com /reviews/skyclad2.html (223 words)

	METALEATER.COM - Album Reviews - Skyclad - A Semblance Of Normality
		SKYCLAD are the originators of folk metal and remain the best band never to make it big.
		Although the label released the group's 2000 album, "Folkemon", they didn't lift a finger to promote it, and after longtime vocalist, Martin Walkyier, left the band, SKYCLAD was punted from the label like a Spalding football.
		SKYCLAD aren't known for finishing their albums strongly ("Any Old Irony?", "Something to Cling To", "Dead Angels on Ice", "Quantity Time"), but "Hybrid Blues" is an inspired departure.
	www.metaleater.com /albumreviews-skyclad2004.php (853 words)

	UnEarthed Archive :: News :: Finland's Tuska Open Air Metal Festival: Bal-Sagoth Cancel, Skyclad Added To Bill ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		For some time now, the band have stated on their web site that the recordings of their forthcoming album are still in their final stages.
		This is due to the fact that the band are in the final stages of recording the long awaited and much delayed sixth and final album, and all available time and effort is being directed towards the completion of the opus.
		The band were one of the first to combine traditional metal with folk influences in a way that has attracted a large number of followers.
	archive.unearthed.com /?news,2005,07,0000053922 (436 words)

	Metal Reviews - Metal Coven - Metal Reviews
		England's Skyclad got their beginnings in the early 1990's after their first vocalist Martin Walkyier had left the pagan metal thrash band Sabbat and hooked up with Graeme English and Steve Ramsey, who earlier had played with Satan and Pariah.
		Skyclad's first four or five studio albums always seemed to include one of these jigfest stlyed tunes that were sure to get people going at concerts.
		After Martin left the band, a lot of fans were left wondering what would happen now since most fans thought of Martin as the heart and soul of the band.
	www.metalcoven.com /BotM_skyclad.html (3699 words)

	Metal Reviews - Metal Coven Webzine - Metal Reviews - Skyclad - A Semblance Of Normality
		The band released that awful (in my opinion) "No Daylights Nor Heeltaps" which was an album full of new versions of old Skyclad tunes a few years ago, and it fell flat in my opinion.
		Skyclad had a few versions of their logo in the old days and they all kicked ass.
		Sometimes, as in Skyclad's case, it changes to an alternate reality where you don't like what is there now as much as you did in days gone by, but you still like it.
	www.metalcoven.com /review_skyclad_semblance.html (1042 words)

	Interview with Skyclad
		Well, we recorded it in England, in Newcastle, where the band is from, in the Lynx studios and from there we went across to Normandy Sound, which is in Rhode Island, in America, and we mixed it there.
		I mean, she has only been in the band for about three weeks before we went in the studio recording the album, but she is a lot better violin player than Cath [Howell, Ed.] was, and much more creative to work with, so it all went great.
		I am really looking forward to doing the next record, when she's been in the band for some time and she can put a lot more ideas in it.
	inferno.dse.nl /issue5/skyclad.html (1414 words)

	Amazon.com: Jonah's Ark: Music: Skyclad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Because I find Skyclad's brand of folk-tinged prog-thrash, with teen-angst lyrics about the impending doom of the Universe delightful in the same way Spinal Tap or Iron Maiden at their most overblown were.
		Skyclad is another band on the long list of underappreciated and relatively little known musicians, who deserved so much more than that.
		Following Skyclad's career, I can say that "Jonah's Ark" is their first album which showed how to seamlessly integrate violin in a heavy texture of thrash-metal.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009KU67?v=glance (666 words)

	Skyclad: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Based in Newcastle, England, the progressive thrash metal band Skyclad [+] was founded in 1990 by vocalist Martin Walkyier [+], who left his previous band, Sabbat [+], after an argument with guitarist Andy Sneap [+].
		The band signed to the German Noise International label and recorded Wayward Sons of Mother Earth [+] for a 1991 release.
		Howell was in turn replaced by Georgina Biddle for 1995's The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea, after which Baxter and Pugh left the group.
	www.music.com /group/skyclad/1 (327 words)

	R@W: Skyclad - A Semblance of Normality - db0's Journal - Last.fm
		A Semblance of Normality is the last album recorded by the band Skyclad and in my opinion is one of their better albums as of yet.
		The music is what you would expect from a Skyclad album, which is, for those ignorant of the band, a melodic sound backed with ample keyboards and many celtic/folk music elements.
		Skyclad - Anotherdrinkingsong is the perfect beer/tavern song and very uplifting as well.
	www.last.fm /user/db0/journal/2005/09/8/12636 (786 words)

	Penny Dreadful - News Archive
		The band are expecting to finish recording in about five weeks and are very excited about the fans hearing the new stuff.
		This will be the bands last appearance in the UK before setting off to South America in November/December and B L A Z E have decided they would like to say a massive thank you to their homeland fans.
		We don't want to change the name of the band, not because it would be a pain in the ass, but because we hope that no further negative events will happen and it won't be necessary.
	www.pennydreadful.de /newspro/arc9-2001.shtml (3352 words)

	Short Reviews [ S ] - ProgressoR / Uzbekistan Progressive Rock Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This band is essentially a quartet of guitar, bass, synthesizer, and drums with two 'session' women on pan-flute and vocals, who appear on the 'boundary' tracks and the second one respectively.
		I like the majority of their albums, but this one musically is the most diverse: from fast typical Prog-Metal songs to mellow Prog-ballads, but almost always with the elements of Scottish folk music (though, these guys are not from Scotland, but they live near, in Northern England).
		The composition is perfect, the arrangements are well thought out, and the musicianship of each of the band members is just top-notch, as well as their joint performance.
	www.progressor.net /review/s.html (2241 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Skyclad tickets, concerts and tour dates
		Based in Newcastle, England, the progressive thrash metal band Skyclad was founded in 1990 by vocalist Martin Walkyier, who left his previous band, Sabbat, after an argument with guitarist Andy Sneap.
		The band signed to the German Noise International label and recorded Wayward Sons of Mother Earth for a 1991 release.
		Howell was in turn replaced by Georgina Biddle for 1995's The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea, after which Baxter and Pugh left the group.
	www.ticketmaster.com /artist/742004?brand=none (564 words)

	BLABBERMOUTH.NET - SATAN Cancel KEEP IT TRUE II Festival Appearance
		He told me that SKYCLAD are planning a tour around this time and that it is impossible for the SATAN members Steve Ramsey and Graeme English to play at [Keep It True].
		SKYCLAD would only play if they headlined the festival and got a certain amount of money for [performing at the event].
		The bottom line is: We had to cancel the SATAN show, because the SKYCLAD management is not aware of the current status of the band and so forced the SATAN show to fail.
	www.roadrunnerrecords.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=16043 (483 words)

	TWAS 12: Skyclad, Suddenly, Tammy!, Luka Bloom, Orb
		The thing that usually mitigates my enthusiasm for death metal bands is that for some reason they all seem to feel that the proper identity for a vocalist to project is that of a shoddily reanimated zombie whose death wound evidently entailed a great deal of neck damage.
		First, this album is, with the exception of an oddly out-of-place diptych toward the end of the disc ("Gammadion Seed" and "Womb of the Worm"), totally unconcerned with the consumption by radioactive rodents of the lower intestines of the rotting hell-bound.
		There appear to be several Skyclad albums (I feel a bout of completism coming on), but as of this writing Prince of the Poverty Line is the only one I can locate through domestic sources.
	www.furia.com /twas/twas0012.html (2277 words)

	news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		SKYCLAD guitarist and mastermind, Steeve Ramsey got seriously injured in his shoulder in a accident.
		Meanwhile, the bands debut «Yet the choirs of vendetta» is receiving good reviews from all medias, surprised by this brutal symphonic opus.
		The band signed a deal with the U.S. label Baphomet Records for the release of their second album, that it will include two unpublished recordings and bonus tracks recorded by the band in two years of activity, more a new video track "The 7th Seal".
	www.darkmusic-productions.com /news.html (2052 words)

	Skyclad - Folkémon - review @ Tartareandesire.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Well, anyway, Skyclad is really something out of the ordinary with their own style of heavy metal with British folk music influences like flutes, horns and other stuff that is not normally used in a metal band.
		Skyclad is not only a unique band but also one of the most talented in the business with great melodic music and this time also a little heavier than before with strong guitar rhythms and vocal lines.
		If you haven´t heard Skyclad before you have really missed out on one of the best metal bands and a breaker of new music ground that is remarkable to hear.
	www.tartareandesire.com /reviews/skyclad.html (313 words)

	Elvenking : Wyrd - Review at Harvest Moon Music
		Not your typical Italian metal band, Elvenking falls firmly in the Skyclad school of folk metal - folk melodies and instrumentation combined with elements of thrash and power metal.
		The melodies are still present in abundance, and the band fully incorporates the violin and flute into the mix, but the symphonic and uplifting qualities found in today's Euro metal are just as prevalent.
		With the band's musical direction steering more into the power metal genre, Kleid is well-suited to the style.
	www.harvestmoonmusic.com /reviews/elvenking_02.html (675 words)

	Skyclad : Folkemon - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Though it's hard to take a band like Skyclad, already known for a wide berth of humor, seriously when the group names its tenth album Folkemon, the title actually conceals vocalist/lyricist Martin Walkyier's penchant for highly animated and thought-provoking (albeit disjointedly thought-provoking) lyrics.
		The band sounds like some awkwardly beautiful hybrid offspring of Metallica and a local Saturday night tavern gathering of Celtic folk musicians, and the songs themselves runneth wildly over with memorable, fist-pumping riffs that strike gold against the interplay of the various instruments (Steve Ramsey's majestic, Hammett-esque lead work in particular).
		Really, in the end, there is just so much to like about Folkemon that, ridiculous or not, it definitely stands up to the test and, when given the chance, truthfully makes for one great listen.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1098863,00.html (277 words)

	TWAS 28: Black Sabbath, Skyclad, Paradise Lost, Gamma Ray, Cirith Ungol, Angkor Wat
		This incarnation of the band was only a studio creation, unfortunately, and Gillan departed as abruptly as he had arrived.
		Biddle proves satisfactory as a musician, though, and the band rips into another album of the world's most jubilant death metal with undiminished elan.
		Gamma Ray, the band formed by guitarist Kai Hansen after his departure from the extremely overblown Helloween, are one of the true defenders of cheesy, Euro-style pop metal.
	www.furia.com /twas/twas0028.html (2485 words)

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