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12 àâã 2025
SURGICAL STEEL – First Two Albums Featuring Special Guest ROB HALFORD Available In September
The band has a fantastic story, being put in a movie, having the Metal God himself (Rob Halford of Judas Priest) guest on their albums and get close several times to a record deal.
Surgical Steel – Metal From America:
Surgical Steel formed in 1981 with Greg Chaisson (Badlands, Steeler) on bass, Jimmy Keeler on guitar, Steve Wilson on vocals, John Aquilino (Schoolboys, Icon) on guitar and Bob Milan (Lydian, Harlequin, Rip N Tear, 40 Thieves, Bob Welch) on drums. The band went through a few lineup changes, but first started recording with Jeff Martin (Racer X, Badlands, MSG, Lethal X) on vocals, Paul Kosanovich on guitar along with Jimmy, Greg and Bob. The band’s first recording was the track “Rivet Head” that was featured on the Metal Blade Records compilation Metal Massacre II. The band would catch the attention of Rob Halford (Judas Priest, Fight) where he and the band Surgical Steel would become very good friends. Rob joined the band in the studio and recorded dual lead vocals (with Jeff) on the track “Smooth And Fast” along with some backing vocals on the track “Bedtime Baby”. The track “Rivet Head” was really the band’s only true “heavy metal” song, as the rest of their catalog is much more melodic metal in the vein of bands like Scorpions, (Turbo-era) Judas Priest and mid 80’s Pretty Maids.
Metal From America tracklisting:
“Rivet Head”
“Smooth And Fast”
“Bedtime Baby”
“To The Bitter End”
“IOU Nothing”
“No Foolin’ Around”
“Moby Dick”
“Bad Boy”
“Officer Steel”
Surgical Steel – Crank It Up!:
Surgical Steel’s second studio release, Crank It Up!, features the two songs (“Gimme Back My Heart” and “Surrender”) that were featured in the movie Thunder Alley (which the band also made a theatrical appearance in). The album also features Rob Halford on backing vocals on two songs (“Hotwire” and “You Were There”). The album features arguably the two most melodic songs on it, starting off with the title track “Crank It Up!” and “Tonight”. The songs “Power To Rock” and “Rock And Women” and reminiscent to many tracks off the Judas Priest album Turbo. Judas Priest would actually record a song on the Turbo album about their times hanging out with the guys in Surgical Steel at the club Rockers with their song “Wild Nights, Hot Crazy Days”. The band would go on and record several more demos with Jeff Martin on vocals (coming out later through Metallic Blue Records), before Jeff would depart to join Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big) to form Racer X. Surgical Steel would recruit vocalist Derek Kendal who was previously in the band Hooker with Scott Travis (Hawk, Racer X, Judas Priest). They also recruited Rik Fox (W.A.S.P., Steeler, Sin) on bass. The band would have a few lineup changes with Derek on vocals, where they would record several more songs (also coming soon from Metallic Blue Records), including recordings with the last lineup featuring Megattack guitarist Parrish Hultquist.
Crank It Up! tracklisting:
“Crank It Up!”
“Tonight”
“Hotwire”
“Power To Rock”
“See No Evil”
“Rock And Women”
“Gimme Back My Heart”
“Surrender”
“You Were There”
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