13 Facts About Bill Steer

William Geoffrey Steer was born on 3 December 1969 and is a British guitarist and co-founder of the extreme metal band Carcass.

Bill Steer is considered a pioneer and an essential contributor to grindcore and death metal due to his involvement in Napalm Death and Carcass, two of the most important bands of those genres.

Bill Steer played in Carcass from 1985 to 1995, the only guitarist to feature on all of the band's albums and perform throughout their live career.

Bill Steer now plays guitar in the band Gentlemans Pistols and performed with a new wave of British heavy metal veterans Angel Witch.

Bill Steer appeared along with Jeffrey Walker in an episode of the Sci-Fi comedy Red Dwarf.

Bill Steer performed as the drummer of the band Smeg and the Heads named Dobbin in series 3 episode 5 "Timeslides".

In 2008 Bill Steer reunited with his Carcass bandmates to play at several European festivals such as Wacken '08.

In 2010, Bill Steer briefly hosted a show at the Internet radio station, TotalRock.

In mid-2013, the band released Surgical Steel, on which Bill Steer played lead guitars with some backing vocals.

Bill Steer plays old Gibson Les Paul guitars, and uses vintage fifty-watt Marshall amplifiers.

Bill Steer has used a white Schecter Strategy on the first two albums, a black Ibanez S540LTD on Necroticism, a Peavey Nitro III, and on the Heartwork album he used Marshall SL-X and anniversary heads as well as the Peavey 5150.

Bill Steer has been a vegetarian since 1986 and was vegan for a period of time.

Bill Steer married his long-term girlfriend in the summer of 2021.