Year : 2022
Style : Melodic Heavy Metal
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 116 mb
Bio:
Medusa Touch was born in 1983.Gogsy had just finished his time playing with punk Band THREATS from Edinburgh. He had started jamming guitar with his good friend Joe Gardner. Joe introduced Gogsy to MSG, Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Saxon and instantly there was a keen interest in getting a band started. Twin guitars like Iron Maiden and Thin Lizzy was a great fit for Joe and Gogsy and the jamming sessions were definitely centred on this style.At the same time but separately, Mike Murray and John Allison had started jamming drums and bass together. Drummer and bass player looking for guitarists, and 2 guitarists needing drums and bass. A marriage made in heaven? Mike had placed an advert in the local music press and the 2 teams got together for a few jam sessions and it all started to gel together. Next a vocalist.Colin was the last to join the band and the first line up was done. Next a name. Loads of options were tabled. Each member had their favourites, nobody agreed with the others, so a vote was taken. Everyone had two choices. Everyone's first choice was different but every second choice was Medusa Touch. That was it a band was born.The band played together for about a year and a half from 1983 to end of 1984 when the first couple of changes came about. Joe found it difficult to commit his time to a band seeking success and dropped out. He was replaced by Colin Stewart who was a seasoned guitar player playing in local bands in Midlothian and around Edinburgh. The NWOBHM of the time was a lot heavier than Colin was previously used to, but he loved it. Around the same time John Allison left the band to be replaced by Lee. At the time John also played in a local band playing local clubs and weddings. They were an excellent band and had been on TV a couple of times trying to get somewhere in their field. John needed more time to do that, so was replaced by Lee. Not long after Lee joined, it was obvious that Havy Metal was not really Lees “Thing” and he needed to be replaced.1985 seen the entrance of Craig Robertson on Drums. A great drummer, our drummer who could use double pedals. He wsn’t only a beast of a drummer, he was quite technical when he wanted to be. He added a great variety to Medusa Touch especially as the Thrash bands had just started to make a real appearance.It was in late 1985 that Mike left to pursue and moved to London in search of fame. Medusa Touch tried and tried to find a replacement bass player but had no success. What do we do? ALL CHANGE. Colin moved onto bass, Gogsy took on guitar and vocals and Craig on Drums.1986 the new look Medusa Touch hit the road. Now heavily influenced by the emergence of the Thrash bands but not a thrash band themselves. This 3 piece is probably the Medusa Touch that most people remember. This band played in this for till 1989. Still playing the rock scene around Scotland but never getting any interest from record companies of the day. The hair metal scene was in full flow at the time. Great music, but certainly not the Medusa Touch look.Finally, Craig left to join another band and Gogsy and Colin enrolled John (Snoddy) Snodgrass and Mikey Hunter on Guitar and Drums. This line lasted another 2 years. The band never officially broke up, but just stopped playing.2018 saw interest from George Arvanitakis, a NWOBHM maniac from Salmóni, Ilia, Greece. George asked the band if they were interested in releasing the recorded material that existed from days gone by. The answer Yes, and here it is.The current Medusa Touch is a band that Gogsy has played with for the last 5 years, originally playing many tracks from the glory heavy metal days in the 1980’s. It was easy for these guys to fan the flames of the old Medusa Touch fire and bring out the tracks from back in the 80’s.We hope you like it and enjoy some good old NWOBHM.
Album:
Medusa Touch are an original 1980's Heavy Metal band from the glory days of Heavy Metal. Steeped in the tradition of riffing, fist-punching, sing-along anthems. A 4 piece band with twin guitars, bass and drums; that's all you need to make such a fine noise. Follow us so you'll know first when our next releases are. Add us to your playlist. First erupted in 1982, the Scottish NWOBHM band MEDUSA TOUCH was around until 1990. That’s when they disbanded, only to be resurrected in 2019. The same year that the compilation album “Terror Eyes: The Compilation” was released. That’s when their music first became available to the wide world of NWOBHM lovers. As I have never heard that release, I really can’t comment on the contents. Whether it is anything you should consider looking into is something you might be able to decide after you have read my review for their latest album “Insanities” and maybe also after you have listened to it yourself.The first thing that was very clear is that the vocals and lead guitar are too much in the forefront in comparison to the rest of the instruments and music. It makes listening to MEDUSA TOUCH a tad uncomfortable, as singer Gogsy isn’t exactly in the same class as BRUCE DICKINSON & ROB HALFORD. Not that he is a bad vocalist, far from it, but his achievements don’t justify his very prominent position in the sound. The same goes for Nige. He is quite the god guitar player, but doesn’t have the quality of a GARY MOORE & EDDIE VAN HALEN to be put forward to blatantly.Having said that I can’t escape the fact that MEDUSA TOUCH are a rather pleasant band to listen to. Their NWOBHM has all the aspects that you would expect from that era, only with a proper sound. They are not slow, but not fast either. They are solid, with a good foundation from the drums and bass. Yes, even with the flaws I mentioned I can only agree that the sound on “Insanities” is quite good, making it easy to listen to. Which makes me wonder how they will sound live. Not really a strange question, as I have seen that they have gigs planned. With a proper sound engineer they should be quite good on stage, I would have thought.All this makes me wonder why we never heard of MEDUSA TOUCH back in the eighties, because if they were half as good as they are in “Insanities”, they would have been worth checking out in the first place. To find out if such is so I will have to answer the question I asked at the start. To check out the compilation album “Terror Eyes” yes or no. well, I am leaning towards the positive answer. Maybe that will answer what I was wondering about.
Line-Up:
Gordon "Gogsy" Sinclair - Guitars (1983-1990, 2019-present), Vocals (1985-1990, 2019-present)
Ian "Demi" Dempster - Bass (2019-present)
Nigel Robinson - Guitars (2019-present)
Bruce McInnes - Drums
Tracklist:
01. Committed to the Cause 03:38
02. Fallen Back 05:24
03. Get Down 04:00
04. Metropol 3324 04:15
05. The Shooter 04:16
06. Asylum 03:57
07. Secrets Never Told 06:20
08. Money Shot 05:14
09. Dancing Angels 03:42
10. Stand Your Ground 04:33
11. When the Poison Flows 03:15
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