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
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 |
