anno 1992In March 1992 DAWN recorded their first studio recording. Simply entitled "Demo 1" it was recorded during two days in Studio Arrogance outside of Linköping. The demo contained only two songs and must be seen as the very first effort of a young band.
The sound quality is not the best, but the energy is there, which matters more. The demo sold something around 150 copies and is of course long since out of print. Shortly after the demo recording bassist Dennis Karlsson left the band to be replaced by Lars Tängmark from MORTIFIED.
Later that same year DAWN decided to enter Dan Swanö's Gory Sound Studios in Finspång to put their second demo on tape. This demo, called "Apparition", was a much more mature offering than its somewhat youthful predecessor and soon achieved cult status in the death metal underground scene.
A small Mexican record label called BELLPHEGOT RECORDS also decided to release this demo on CD and the deal was initially that DAWN would be given a release of their own. However, the final result was a split CD entitled "The Eternal Forest" with the Mexican death metal band PYPHOMGERTUM which somewhat ruined the CD but at the same time is a clear indication of how far ahead DAWN actually were to many of their competitors of the time. |
