Artist: Marshall Law
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Metal Detector
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
Powergame
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Marshall Law
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
Formed in heavy metal's birth-city of Birmingham, England, Marshall Law arrived at a time -- the recent 1980's -- when pure, unadulterated big metal had interpreted a noticeable back seat to more than extreme genres like toss and the yin to its yang, glam. Founding members, singer Andy Pyke (ex-Damien) and guitarist Dave Martin (ex-Shadowlands) were both veterans of the local saloon picture, and aboard bit guitarist Andy Southwell, bassist Malcolm Gould and drummer Mick Donovan, they cursorily set about shopping their 1988 "Future Shock" demonstration to record companies. FM Revolver finally snapped them up and 1990 adage the acquittance of Marshall Law's eponymous debut, soon to be followed by 1991's Power Crazy E.P., featuring a newfangled musical rhythm section in bassist Roger Davis and drummer Lee Morris. Both releases boasted a traditional metal sound that earned the radical a rather unfair reputation as Judas Priest clones (the similarities existed, but were scarcely overpowering), and 1993's sophomore full-length, Powergame, although better and more than diversified, was sadly ineffectual to dispel these allegations. None of it seemed to matter when Marshall Law deep in thought their record deal the following class, however, and by September 1992, they had performed their leave show and formally disbanded. But they rebounded in 1996 with a new contract courtesy of indie alloy stalwart Neat Records, which signaled Marshall Law's return with a long-shelved live album that they named Law in the Raw. The next year's Metal Detector adage drummer Lee Morris, wHO had already moved onto join doomsters Paradise Lost, replaced by a metal drum political machine (covertly named Glen Viner by the band), simply an actual living human, Chris Green, was present behind the kit for 1999's Warning from History. Arguably Marshall Law's to the highest degree successful composition yet, the album benefited from client appearances by other Grim Reaper vocalist Steve Grimmett and Magnum guitar player Tony Clarkin, and lED to tours of Europe and South America. But little has been heard from the isthmus since, with its members involving themselves with diverse projects while still heavy a Marshall Law reunification at some tip down the assembly line.
