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JOHNNY - Bass and Vocals
TOMAS - Guitars
FREDRIK - Guitars
ANDERS - Drums

Century Media Records has plans to release some early Unleashed recordings. Also in the works is a brand new album from Unleashed due late this year or early 2002. Unleashed are back! The following is a letter written by Johnny from Unleashed regarding the re-issues:

UNLEASHED RE-ISSUES

Way back then, in the mid 80's when Death Metal was still not a commercial form of music, I can assure you folks that there were far more death metal parties to attain than concerts.
Death Metal was more a lifestyle than anything else really.
Bands formed all around the world and traded tapes and shirts with oneanother.
Obviously, the ultimate goal would be to record a full length album and go on tour to meet all the people you've been writing letters to all these years... That's where it all started one day back in 1990.
Unleashed hooked up with Century Media and discussed to work together on an EP at first.
The band went down to Germany to record this first "Single" in Noble studios, the six songs from that recording session is what you now can listen to from this "early recordings" Unleashed box.
Actually, it was my first recording as a vocalist!, we had a different vocalist on our earlier demos when I played the bass only.
It turned out very well for the time being, and we were very happy with it the way it came out. A little later, in 1991 we signed with Century media for the first full-length record and that's when a brand new era had begun.
As I recall we also played a couple of really good shows in Dortmund prior to the first album recording "Where no life dwells", I also remember a couple of "celebration-nights" shortly after the album was done... I believe we all still have a hangover from those nights...
When our first record was out, the tours begun and many of you metal fans know about the rest.
This here is just to let some of the new fans of Unleashed know that there was a time before the CD's, the bigger tours, and the large magazine reviews.
Frankly, it was more a way to live rather than to make a living.
On the other hand, there hasn't been such a major change, except for the better equipment, learning from experiences over the years, and the fact that you actually have to make a living as you grow older.
We're still a bunch of metalheads and that's the way it's always gonna be!
When you listen to this music from the Unleashed earlier recordings and compare it to our most recent release, we hope you'll find that Unleashed can't be tamed, it can't be leashed!
We're gonna develop and find new ways over the years but the roots are still there.
And after all, it's a lifestyle more than anything else really.

Best regards to you all
Johnny for Unleashed

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