Tyrant

Band members

• Current line-up
  • Brett Collidge (guitar)
  • Charles Price (guitar)
  • James Shelverton (drums)
  • Jason Smith (bass)
  • Neil Steel (Neil Wilson) (vocals)

• Former members
  • Simon Wilson (guitar)
  • Nathan Sproule (drums)
  • Andy Zarins (guitar) (1982 - 2005)
  • Rob Zarins (drums) (1982 - 2005)
  • Grant Wallace (guitar) (1982 - 2005)
  • Andy Hatton (bass) (2002 – 2005)
  • Dave McDonnell (bass) (1998 – 2002)
  • Jurgen Ortman (bass) (1984 - 1985)
  • Paul Hassman (bass) (1984)
  • Dale Walton (bass) (1982 - 1983)

Website

geocities.com/tyrantau

Formed

Hobart, TAS, 1982

Band information

Tyrant came to be in Hobart in 1982 and eventually moved to the Sydney scene where they developed a reasonable profile and went on to headline Metal Crusade in April 1985. A hard-riffing heavy boogie band in the AC/DC/Rose Tattoo mixed with 80s style metal, Tyrant featured strong lead vocals from Wilson.

In late 1998 the band reformed and has since released a couple of albums of loud, blues-drenched metal. Tyrant was on hold for some time as Wilson worked with another outfit called Roadkill but in 2005 the band was reformed and recorded a live CD. Save the Devil is due in October 2010.

Discography

Albums:

	1984	Never Too Loud	self release
	2000	Freaks of Nature	self release
	2003	Thunder Down Under	self release
	2005	Live Bootleg	self release
	2010	Save the Devil	self release