Given the question: Facts: - instrument: guitar - years active: 1981 -- present - birth name: steve ramsey - genre: heavy metal folk metal - name: steve ramsey - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist - associated acts: skyclad satan blind fury pariah forgodsake - occupation: guitarist , songwriter , teacher Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of steve ramsey .
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steve ramsey is a british guitarist who began his career with the british heavy metal band satan in the early 1980s , releasing a single and an album , a second album under the band name blind fury , an ep and another album after changing the band name back to satan and two more albums after renaming the band name once again - to pariah .after the split of pariah in 1990 , he teamed up with singer martin walkyier -lrb- ex-sabbat -rrb- to form a heavy metal band with strong folk influences , called skyclad .ramsey is influenced by classic hard rock acts like thin lizzy , uriah heep , etc. .while initially starting as a thrash metal band with folk influences , these '' classic '' roots became more and more visible in skyclad 's music over the years .steve ramsey has also participated in other band projects , for example as album guest and live guitarist for forgodsake .steve ramsey is also a guitar and bass-guitar teacher at many schools across the north-east ; such as benfield school .