Dispatched

Melodic Death Metal

The whole story of Dispatched began just before New-Years Eve of '91/'92. The founder, Daniel Lundberg, and Krister Andersson decided to start a band. Jonas Kimbrell joined this duo later on and their first Demo was recorded in the summer of 1992. Till the end of the same year, Emanuel Astrom was found and the line-up was complete. It was then that they recorded their first demo Dispatched into External at Stone Studio. Returning to the same studio in early 1993, they recorded a new promo tape. In the summer of 1993, the whole gang drove to the famous Unisound to make another promo. With this second promo Dispatched gained more attention and some labels showed interest in the band. This tape received no bad reviews at all. One year later, Dispatched returned to Unisound to record a whole album, which was planned to be released by Exhumed Productions in Germany. A total of eleven songs were recorded. Jonas and Emanuel decided to go their own way right after this recording. Daniel and Krister continued alone for the rest of '94, buying a 4-channel studio and not rehearsing at all. However, by the end of '95 Fredrik Larsson joined the band and they started to rehearse again. Until then, Exhumed Production had only released four of the eleven songs as a 7 EP. Right before the summer of '96, Krister had grown tired of the band and left. This ended the first era, which included the release of the 7 EP Awaiting the End and later on the MCD Blackshadows, both taken from the recordi...