Cloven Hoof

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aming themselves after the elements, David Potter (a.k.a. water; vocals), Steve Rounds (a.k.a. Fire; guitar), Lee Barry Andre Payne (a.k.a. Air; bass) and Kevin Pountney (a.k.a. Earth; drums) came together in 1979 to launch a special kind of Kiss styled theatrical band mixed with tongue-in-cheek satanic imagery titled Cloven Hoof to release an album of the same title on 'Neat' in 1984.

Exchanging Potter with ex-Trapeze man Rob Hendrick after Potter abruptly quit to join the French band H-bomb, who wanted an English-speaking singer to improve their commercial appeal, Cloven Hoof would launch the live Fighting Back in 1986.

While the band broke apart with the membership once again in flux, Payne would return with much of the former Tredegar membership of Russell North (vocals), Andrew Wood (guitar) and John Brown (drums) by his side to try one more time for two albums, now taking the music heavier, Payne would round up another bunch of blokes in the form of Lynch Radinsky (drums), Matt Moreton (vocals (lead)/vocals (backing)), Andy Sshortland (guitars) and Himself also now taking vocals to release Eye of the Sun, and Ben Read assumed guitars for The Definitive Part One (2008), while Matt Moreton took lead vocals on Throne of Damnation (2010).