Description

American metal act Surgical Steel was formed formed in Phoenix back in 1981 with Greg Chaisson (Badlands, Steeler) on bass, Jimmy Keeler on guitar, Steve Wilson on vocals, John Aquilino (Icon) on guitar and Bob Milan (Harlequin, Lydian) on drums. The band went through a few line-up changes, but first started recording with Jeff Martin (Racer X, Badlands, 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 The Metal God himself Rob Halford (Judas Priest) where he and the band Surgical Steel would become very good friends. Rob joined the band in the studio and recorded backing vocals on two tracks Hotwire and You Were There. The Priest connection doest end there. The songs Power To Rock and Rock And Women are very reminiscent to many tracks off the Judas Priest album Turbo and Judas Priest would even write and 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. Crank It Up also 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. After 40 years these recordings have been dug up from the vault, been remastered and are now released on cd for the first time

Track list:
1. ‎Crank It Up!
2. Tonight
3. Hotwire-with Rob Halford on backing vocals
4. Power To Rock
5. See No Evil
6. Rock And Women
7. Gimme Back My Heart
8. Surrender
9. You Were There-with Rob Halford on backing vocals