Doug Piercy

He played in the San Francisco heavy metal band Anvil Chorus in the early 1980s.

[1] Playing in Control briefly, he eventually moved on to his best-known project, Heathen, in 1985.

Piercy shared lead and rhythm duties with Lee Altus in Heathen from 1985 to 1992, playing on both of their LPs Breaking the Silence and Victims of Deception.

In 1994, Piercy then formed a new band in Germany, The Company, and released two records with them; the first titled simply "The Company" on Teichiku records who reached position 17 in the Japanese HM charts.

The second album, titled "Frozen by Heat", was released in Europe on Hi Gain records in Germany.