UK thrash band Pariah have announced the re-issue of their entire catalogue via Hammerheart Records. Special vinyl editions, as well as CDs, for The Kindred, Blaze of Obscurity and Unity will be released on 27th March, 2026 via the label. 

Pre-orders are available HERE

There’s heavy metal, power metal, thrash metal, death metal, the list seems almost endless. Sub-genres are important in metal and bands are quickly classified and labelled. Pariah (the last re-incarnation of Satan) is one of few bands that are difficult if not impossible to classify. Is it heavy metal? NWOBHM? Thrash Metal? Pariah did not make it easy to describe their sound. It might be too sophisticated to simply label it heavy metal, which in its infancy was a rather simple affair. 

The guitar playing by Russ Tippins and Steve Ramsey is undeniably what defines Pariah as well as Satan in the past. Undeniably, Satan has gone a long way; from humble NWOBHM beginnings, to experimental/melodic metal and something that could be described as a NWOBHM/thrash metal hybrid (The Kindred (1988). It’s as if they’ve been experimenting trying to find their identity, and theyfinally found it. Stylistically, Blaze of Obscurity (1989) could be seen a step back to Satan‘s Suspended Sentence, but this time around they got everything right, down to the last note. This is easily Pariah/Satan’s creative peak and one of the most consistent albums ever heard. The level of musical genius expressed here, along with near flawless songwriting, is more than enough to skyrocket it to heights reserved only for classics.

Unity was the comeback album of Pariah/Satan, released after 9 years after they split-up, in 1997. Released on the band’s own label Aartee Music, and only 1.000 copies were made on CD. Broadly speaking, Unity still works in the realm of what you’d call power/thrash, with the chugging speed of thrash metal mixed into guitar work and songwriting that’s melodic in a way that’s closer to the NWOBHM sound than anything else, but this differs a good bit in both songwriting and vocals.

Track-list:

1. Gerrymander
2. The Rope
3. Scapegoat
4. Foreign Bodies
5. (La Guerra) Inhumane
6. Killing for Company
7. Icons of Hypcrisy
8. Promise of Remembrance
9. Disciples Anonymous

Track-list:
1. Missionary of Mercy
2. Puppet Regime
3. Canary
4. Blaze of Obscurity
5. Retaliate!
6. Hypochondriac
7. Enemy Within
8. The Brotherhood

Track-list:
1. Unity
2. Reactionary
3. Walking Wounded
4. No Exit
5. Snakes & Ladders / One of Us
6. Saboteurs
7. Mutual Street
8. The Jonah
9. Learning to Crawl