Dispatched Bio

Important to know! Dispatcheds history is divided into two sections; the first era of 1991 to 1995, and the second era of 1996 to present. Don't mix these two, as it is actually 2 different bands - even if they got a connection, and that's why also the first era is enclosed in this page. But the band of today did really begin to take form 1996!



The whole story of DISPATCHED started just before new-years eve of 91/92, the founder, Daniel Lundberg (Guitar) and Criss Andersson (Vocals), 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 founded and the line-up was complete.



A new promo-tape was recorded in early 1993 in the same studio as their first demo (Stone-studio). In the summer of 1993, the whole gang droved to the famous UNISOUND (r.i.p.) to make another promo. With this 2:nd promo Dispatched gained more attentions and some labels shows some interest in the band - this tape got 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, and 11 songs were recorded. Jonas and Emanuel decided to go their own way right after this recording.



Daniel and Criss continued alone the rest of ´94, buying a 4-chanel studio and didn't rehearsal at all, only some songs was made on the little studio, but in the end of ´95, Fredrik Larsson joined the band and they started to rehearsal again. Until now, Exhumed Production had only released 4 of the 11 songs as a 7"EP. Right before summer of ´96, Criss had grown tired of doing the band and left... This ended the first era, which includes the releases of the 7"EP "Awaiting the end" and later on also the MCD "Blackshadows"... (Both taken from the recording of 1994)



Daniel and Fredrik continued to rehearsal and after the summer they founded a new drummer, Mattias Hellman, later on also a keyboard player/vocals, Fredrik Karlsson. This four piece planned to record some new songs until the summer of ´97, but the drummer wasn't good enough in the studio, so a replacement was done by Dennis Nilsson. After some changes of studio dates, Dispatched finally recorded 4 songs in studio Titan in September ´97 (to become "Returned to your mind" MCD). Dennis Nilsson becomes a full member of the band and a 2:nd guitarplayer joined later as well in the beginning of 1998 - Emil Larsson.



With this line-up, Dispatched was rehearsal for a new release. 3rd - 7th of August 1998, was the date when Dispatched visited studio ABYSS B, with Tommy Tägtgren behind the knobs. This resulted in a new (3rd) MCD "PROMISED LAND", which contains 5 songs + an outro, totally 25 minutes of music.



Dispatched signed a 1 MCD deal with Kshatryas Production of Germany for this release - and the MCD saw the light of day just before x-mas of 1998.



Under 1999, not much was done, only rehearsing a lot for the planned full-length album. In October, the guys entered the Abyss Studio with Tommy Tägtgren again - two weeks were booked, but Dispatched were well prepared for this action, and used only 12 days for the recording of 10 new songs (of a totally running time of 60 minutes). Dispatched had already got offers from several record companies before the recording session, but stayed calm and didn't sign anything. Now with a whole album, they sent out a couple of copies to a few record companies again, to see the reaction. The reaction was amazing and Dispatched were offered many deals from different labels.



After a lot of thinking, Dispatched signed for MUSIC FOR NATIONS in March 2000.