
Their first album demo tape was called Bleed 'Em Dry and had an album's worth of material. The band formed in Worcestershire and initially featured Paul de Mercado on vocals. Two albums under that name were since released: Walking in the Shadows (2016) and At the Gates (2019). After disbanding in 1988, the band reformed in 2006 around Grimmett, and due to legal issues surrounding the rights to the original band name, they went by Steve Grimmett's Grim Reaper. They are best known for several of their 1980s songs, including the respective title tracks from their first three albums: See You in Hell (1983), Fear No Evil (1985) and Rock You to Hell (1987) each of those songs gained notoriety in the 1990s for appearing on Beavis and Butt-Head. The band was formed in 1979 in Droitwich, England, by guitarist Nick Bowcott, and there have been numerous lineup changes over the years, with frontman Steve Grimmett being the longest running member, from 1982 to 1988, then 2006 until his death in 2022.

Grim Reaper were a British heavy metal band from the new wave of British heavy metal era.
