Seventh Angel

[3] The Daily Telegraph called Seventh Angel "one of the leading Christian thrash metal bands in Great Britain.

A few days later, Simon Bibby joined as the bassist and the band began to play local concerts around the West Midlands.

In August 1989, Seventh Angel performed their fifth concert at the Greenbelt Festival, supporting American rock band One Bad Pig.

Afterwards, Mark Ruff left and Seventh Angel toured the United Kingdom, including Ireland, with the American Christian metal band Whitecross.

On 25 January 1990, Seventh Angel appeared on Channel 4's Not on Sunday programme which featured a performance of "Divine Takeover" and a band interview with Brian Redhead.

Between 12 and 14 March 1990, the third demo titled Heed the Warning was recorded and mixed at White Rabbit Studios in Bridgnorth with Paul Hodson.

Over the next few months, Seventh Angel played at local venues around Dudley and Stourbridge, including five performances at The Rock Tavern in Brierley Hill.

In February, Seventh Angel appeared on BBC TV four times with footage recorded at their Greenbelt festival concert; "Forbidden Desires" was the featured song.

Simon Jones joined in to play bass and Seventh Angel performed concerts around Horsham and Stourbridge during the spring.

Seventh Angel's second album, Lament for the Weary, was recorded in ICC studios, Eastbourne, with Roy Rowland from 4 to 16 July 1991; it was released in 1992.

Seventh Angel performed on the mainstage of the Greenbelt festival on 23 August, sharing the stage with the American progressive metal group Galactic Cowboys.

Mark Broomhead of the fellow thrash metal band Detritus played bass at the time for Seventh Angel, and the band played a concert at Greenbelt festival on 28 August, sharing stage with the reputive Swedish progressive doom metal group Veni Domine.

The song features similar thrash/doom style the band is known for, albeit with death growl vocals as opposed to the previous thrash shouting.

In March 2009, Blabbermouth.net reported that the band would enter studio The Priory in Birmingham with Greg Chandler of Esoteric to record their new album.

Frontman Ian Arkley in 2012