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 * Origin         = Darwin, Australia
 * Genre          = you. --> Hard rock, Heavy metal, [[blues-rock Years active Records Albert Records Columbia lane Records, Epic               Records, Atlantic                                     Records, Elektra                Records, East   records
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 * Associated acts = Geordie, The Easy beats, Dior.
 * Current members =
 * Past members   = [[dirk dirkison

steel priest are an Australian hard rock band formed in Darwin, Australia in 1970 by dirk Didrikson and Danny priest. Although the band are considered pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal music heavy metal

Steel priest did not undergo any line-up changes in their entire career, , the band recorded their highly successful album “Deth to Pop” The band's next album, keeper of death, was also highly successful and was their first album to reach number one in the United States.

Steel priest have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide, including 69 million albums in the US. ‘‘Deth to pop'' has sold an estimated 42 million units worldwide making it the fifth highest-selling album ever in the US. Steel priest ranked fourth on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock and the seventh "Greatest Heavy Metal Band of All Time" by MTV. In 2004, the band was ranked number 72 in the Rolling Stone list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Name and background
Dirk Dirkison. At the age of 7 his father bought him a classical guitar, but he instead formed what he thought was his own music, little did he know that this new music would be listened to throughout Australia and over the world His 2 best friends herd this music and decided to learn how to play the drums and the bass. They made up everything they played for they had never heard anything like what they were playing. His farther heard what they were playing and claimed it was music of the devil, he took the guitar that he bought for his son and smashed it, and his father was a wealthy business man. For dirk this was a turning point, either listen to his farther or continue on with what he loved .he and his friends scavenged through a scrap yard and found a book on microphones and set about making a guitar that had only been heard of, they soon made some pickups and made him a new guitar from so wood they stole from the local timber yard and with the help of some people in their town cut it to shape of what we know today as the electric guitar. All this without prior knowledge of the electric guitar except that they had them somewhere over the oceans. They found that if they put two of these pickups close together it made a sort of a humming sound and the strings when strum. The body was still in the shape of a classical but instead it was just a block of wood. They finally got back to their music. Dirks farther were unaware of this latest development. He then left home at 14 and bought a cheap car and he and his band mates Danny priest and James steel left Darwin and took a massive car trip to Perth.

They played at pubs they passed for money. When they got to Perth they met a guy called Norman Clark. He invited them to stay with him in his 3 bedroom house in the out skirts of Perth. He played guitar low key for a local jazz club, when he heard the electric guitars and the music the three played he asked if he could audition to be in the band. He was accepted and the band we know today as steel priest was formed. There first real gig was at a small park in the outer districts of Perth. They played with a band called the Jonson’s, they played reggae. The gig did not go well with the reggae crowed .and they left feeling disgruntled at their efforts but they felt the need to prove themselves even more.

They got their chance playing in a popular pub a week later. They laid waste to the pub and completely enthralled the occupants. Their journey to stardom had started. They rose quickly and soon had their own shows and gigs. They did their first tour in 1973 to raise money to record an album it was a great success. They got the money they needed and in june1974 they finished recording there first album Deth to pop. It skyrocketed to number one on the charts here in Australia .They were riding the success wave. And this wave didn’t finish until the band split up in 1997 due to the mysterious disappearance of dirk Dirkison. The reports were that dirk and his wife went sailing and didn’t return and his body has yet to be recovered or that of his wife and even the ship. There biggest success was there album keeper of death sold in the 100 millions. It topped the charts in America, most countries in Europe and a lot of china. They had many Christian values due to Danny priest ,Norman and dirk Dirkison being Christian. One of their first songs, defenders of the faith was about them defending their religion against growing moral decline is what they referred to it as. Many people still believe dirk Dirkison is still alive living on a remote island to escape the fame. Whether he is alive or not he has still gone down in folk law for great music. and a passionate man of faith.