Overdrive (Swe) - Demo 1980 (1980)

Heavy Metal

Reissued in 2000 on 7" picture disc by Stormbringer Records (500 copies).

Info from promo letter: The music is brilliant hard driving heavy metal; their homecountry is, of course, Sweden!. The whole thing started in June 1980 so they've been playing together for 8 months now. But if you think they're amateurs because of that, you're totaly wrong. Pelle and Janne have been playing together for nearly 5 years in different bands like: T.N.T., Marbles, Flash, Paradize (where they met Kenth). Paradize recorded a single 'Caress of Steel' on Ori Records. Kenta and Kjelle have played together for 9 years in a band called Ocean with whom they recorded two singles 'See Everybody' (which were on the European top jury contest) and 'Dreams of Silver'. In the beginning of June they left Ocean as Paradize split up. The five guys: Kenta, Kjelle, Janne, Kent and Pelle got together and started talking about making a really good heavy rock band.

They had only three things in their heads:
No. 1: To play the ass and ears off the Swedish people.
No. 2: To do the same thing outside Sweden.
No. 3: To make a really good record.

They started up by playing songs like "Rock Brigade" (Def Leppard), "Sympathize" (Axe), "Ladies Man" (April Wine)... + a couple more. But they thought it wasn't the right feeling playing others songs so they started writing their own material with songs like "Overdrive", "20th Century", "Lost In Time", "Todays World", "Rock & Roll Hangover" and many more.

The songs on the demo are:
1. Overdrive (Music: Thuresson, Lyrics: Stark)
2. 20th Century (Music & Lyrics: Eriksson)

Overdrive uses: Gibson guitars, Rickenbacker bass, Ludwig drums, Paiste cymbals, Marshall amps, Shure mikes, Rotosound and Snake strings!