Midasuno

The band are the subject of the road diary "Dial M For Merthyr" by the Welsh author Rachel Trezise.

Gavin Jessop & Matt Riste have been involved in other projects including the short lived All The Damn Vampires.

[citation needed] In 2000, school friends Scott Andrews, Gavin Jessop, Matt Rise, Mike Cloke, and Steven Hopkins decided to form a band, originally known as Opium (not to be confused with the Merthyr-based band of the same name).

Mike Cloke then left the band and songs such as an Art of fear and Lacerate/Break were written during this time.

After a name change demo was recorded at Frontline Studios, Caerphilly, South Wales which won the band the opportunity to play the UK showcase that is In the City, Manchester.

The band then recorded the double A side single featuring the above-mentioned songs at Frontline, Caerphilly with Stuart Richardson (Lostprophets) and at Monnow Valley, Monmouthshire, with record producer Greg Haver.

The album was recorded in under two weeks and a relentless UK tour schedule was then booked to promote the release.

The album was a month late coming out, and received rave reviews from the rock press including Rocksound, Metal Hammer, and Kerrang!

Several songs were written in these sessions including A Machine; the rhythm thief, and other working titles such as Body like Christmas-head like Halloween, and the recording process was covered heavily by Rocksound Magazine.

Due to technical difficulties and personal strains the album took longer to materialise, initially titled The curse of Midasuno, the band decided to release the best of the tracks from the sessions as a mini-album "Til Death Do Us Party" which the band released in 2006 after signing a deal with Bristol-based label Sugar Shack Records.

The band announced they will play one final show with the original line up at Cardiff's Millennium music hall on 4 December 2010, before closing the door on Midasuno forever.