TALISMAN "Truth & Live At The Sweden Rock Festival"

TALISMAN started out more or less as the brainchild of bass player extraordinaire Marcel Jacob. He previously played with bands like RISING FORCE, NORUM, POWER and has let his bass do the talking on albums by the likes of THE JOHANSSON BROTHERS, MELDRUM, EYES and THOMAS VIKSTRÖM. He met singer Jeff Scott Soto during his days in RISING FORCE in the early nineties. Before Marcel and Jeff Scott Soto found each other, Marcel recorded some demos with various singers such as Thomas Vikström (CANDLEMASS), Chris Lancelot (GRACE) and Göran Edman (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, NORUM, MADISON, GLORY). On the first album TALISMAN was not really a band but more a Marcel/Jeff project + friends. Guitars were played by Christopher Ståhl (POWER) and Mats Lindfors (NORUM, GRAND SLAM), keyboards by Mats Olausson (MALMSTEEN, GLORY) and additional drums by Peter Hermansson (220 VOLT, NORUM). The album was recorded for Electra, but the label went bust before the release and the master was bought by Vinyl Mania who released it on the Airplay label. On live gigs the band featured Jason Bieler on guitar (SAIGON KICK), ex. YALE BATE/TOTEMdrummer/ singer Jacob "Jake Samuels" Samuelsson (later in JEKYLL ‘N HYDE/MIDNIGHT SUN) and Thomas Vikström on keyboards. When TALISMAN signed to Dino (later re-named Empire) they bought the master and re-issued the debut on CD with six live tracks as bonus. In 1992 Matti Alfonzetti returned from England after having recorded with JAGGED EDGE. He then joined forces with Marcel Jacob and new TALISMAN guitarist Fredrik Åkesson (ex. ONE CENT, later SOUTHPAW). They recorded a great demo also containing the song Angel. The other tracks turned up on the Genesis album, where Soto became a firm member of the band. On that album, as well as on the debut Marcel plays bass and drums with Jake Samuels which was in and out of the band in a few months time. On the following live-album “Five Out Of Five” the line-up was completed with exTREAT-skinsman Jamie Borger and the band went on to record their most successful releases to date: the two Humanimal albums. Real classical pieces of melodic - well played - hard rock with a twist. The SEAL cover Crazy, in a version far more interesting than the original, can be found on the follow up album Life. After the release of Life Fredrik left as he wanted to go in a heavier direction which can be heard on his solo project SOUTHPAW. Fredrik was temporarily replaced by American guitarist Brian Young (BEAU NASTY). But the band finally decided to take a hiatus and Marcel and Jeff recorded two albums under the monicker HUMAN CLAY, where Yngwie Malmsteen played lead guitar on one track. TALISMAN finally found their way back, reinforced with former GREAT KING RAT/JEKYLL ‘N HYDE stringsman Pontus Norgren. The album Truth was however a pretty weak effort and after the album the band officially split, but did some gigs in the summer of 2001. Jeff, Pontus and Marcel later joined forces with drummer Thomas Broman (GREAT KING RAT) and took the name HUMANIMAL. The band released their outstanding debut in 2002: an album in the vein and class of classic TALISMAN albums such as
Genesis or Humanimal. A TALISMAN live-album was recorded at the Sweden Rock Festival in 2001.

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