SURGICAL STEEL (Badlands, Racer X, Judas Priest members) – Metal From America ’84-85 [Metallic Blue Records / Previously Unreleased] (2025)

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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 (ARLEQUIN, RIP N TEAR, BOB WELCH) on drums. The band went through a few line-up 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.
After doing some demos, SURGICAL STEEL first complete 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 The Metal God himself Rob Halford (JUDAS PRIEST, FIGHT) where he and the band SURGICAL STEEL would become very good friends. Halford joined the band in the studio and recorded dual lead vocals (with Jeff) on the song “Smooth And Fast” along with some backing vocals on the track “Bedtime Baby”.

In 1985, Surgical Steel made it to the silver screen. Looking in the Arizona area for a metal band, Surgical Steel was picked to be the “big band” in the story about Leif Garrett’s garage band making it big. The 1985 movie is called ‘Thunder Alley’, a cult classic. The soundtrack featured most of the songs the band released private in 1984, only a few copies.
Now Metallic Blue Records is releasing for the first time on CD SURGICAL STEEL recordings on two volumes, this one titled “Metal From America“, remastered, with a very good sound quality. Surgical Steel had it all…. spikes, leather, big hair and plenty of Final Net Superhold for everyone, but also very good songs mixing American Hard Rock with early ’80s U.S Metal.

1 – ‎Rivet Head
2 – Smooth And Fast (feat. Rob Halford on dual lead vocals)
3 – Bedtime Baby (feat. Rob Halford on backing vocals)
4 – To The Bitter End
5 – IOU Nothing
6 – No Foolin’ Around
7 – Moby Dick
8 – Bad Boy
9 – Officer Steel

Jeff Martin – Lead Vocals
Jimmy Keeler – Guitar
Paul Kosanovich – Guitar
Greg Chaisson – Bass
Bob Milan – Drums

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