A group of neo-Nazis have been arrested for beating a black DJ at a Seattle bar to mark their 'annual holiday' - the death of their leader.

The seven men and one woman were taken into custody on Saturday in Lynnwood after allegedly attacking the unnamed DJ at the Rec Room Bar and Grill.

They tried to take over his equipment then, according to witnesses, beat him and stomped on him while shouting racial slurs. It is not known what his condition is now.

They also attacked an Asian man who tried to protect the victim, according to police.

The assailants all belong to white supremacist groups including the Aryan Brotherhood. They were celebrating what they call 'martyr's day' to commemorate the 1984 death of prolific neo-Nazi Robert Jay Matthews.

Travis David Condor, left, and Vincent Bradley Nutter, right, were among a group of eight neo-Nazis arrested in Seattle on Saturday for the alleged attack of a black DJ. Condor is a prolific white supremacist. They are shown in previous mugshots

Those arrested were Charlottesville protester Travis David Condor, 34, Cory Thomas Colwell, 34, Leah Northcraft, 25, Nathaniel Woodell, 32, Vincent Bradley Nutter, 28, Randy Smith, 38, Guy Miller, 37, and Daniel Dorson, 23.

Authorities believe the group, which included people from Washington, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Illinois and Oregon, had traveled to Washington state to mark the anniversary Matthews death.

The group was celebrating what they call 'martyr's day' to commemorate the death of their leader, Robert Matthews, who was killed in a shootout with police in 1984

Mathews led The Order, a white separatist group, until he was killed in a shootout with the FBI on Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, in 1984.

Every year, to mark his death, his followers travel to Whidbey Island in his memory. Some often pose around a fire pit and take photographs.

Condor, a former soldier from Pittsburgh, previously spent 90 days in jail for beating a man with a baseball bat in Cincinnati. He was photographed at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville last year when James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one person.

The attack on the DJ came just hours after a jury on Friday convicted Fields of first-degree murder and other charges.

Deputies responding to a 911 call at the tavern said they saw several people trying to flee in a white pickup; the driver refused orders to stop.

They later pulled over the vehicle and arrested the six people inside, including Condor and Randy A. Smith, 38, of Eugene, Oregon. Smith's hands were bloody, a deputy wrote in a probable-cause statement.

Two other suspects were arrested after being found in another car that had left the bar, authorities said.

Nathaniel Woodell, , 32, and Leah Northcraft, 25, are shown appearing in court on Tuesday

Randy Smith, 38, and Guy Miller, 37, were also arrested. They are shown in court

Condor is shown, left. Right is Daniel Dorson, 23, the youngest in the group

The attack on Saturday happened at the Rec Room Bar and Grill in Lynnwood, near Seattle. According to police, the group of neo-Nazis had traveled from all over the country to Washington to pay homage to Matthews

Condor, second from left, and right, was at the Charlottesville riot in 2017 when a woman was mowed down by another white supremacist. The other man photographed has not been named

The driver of that vehicle, identified as Vincent B. Nutter, 28, of Bothell, was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence in addition to allegations related to the assault. He refused to submit to breath or other tests, court documents said.

Nutter has a lengthy criminal history in Washington which includes drug and gun offenses.

In 2013, he was arrested following a manhunt that involved helicopters and police dogs; he eventually climbed 40 feet into a Douglas fir tree and surrendered only after firefighters blasted him a few times with a fire hose, according to an account in The Daily Herald newspaper of Everett. He was sentenced to six years in prison.

Northcraft did not participate in the assault but did yell slurs and threats and thus was arrested for investigation of malicious harassment, the state's hate crime law, deputies said. A message to a phone number listed for her was not immediately returned.

The suspects were being held on $15,000 bail, except for Colwell, who was released on his own recognizance, according to the Snohomish County Prosecutor's Office.