JAMESON RAID – Uninvited Guests

The fame of Jameson Raid is more or less solely grounded on one seven inch release from 1978, ‘Seven Days of Splendor’, and the band would have been entirely forgotten if it was not for Keep It True Festival in Germany and the Metal coverband Roxxcalibur. They dug the song up again, performed it live with the original singer Terry dark, and the band took over. They played festivals, released a compilation of their old tracks, then a 3-track-EP in 2014, and in 2015 finally their debut album Uninvited Guests, is released more than four decades after the band was founded.

While they were a good band in their early years, they are an astonishingly modern Metal band today. The heavy riffing shows no layer of dust one could expect from musicians beyond 60 years of age, and at some points the style reminds of Ozzy Osbourne’s last releases. But with better melodies. And Terry Dark is still one of the best singers in the UK. An unexpected but very welcome guest that will hopefully stay.