MY MISTAKE THE WRONG ALBUM PHOTO - i`m sorry !
Dreamhunter (1987)



TREAT or "THE TREAT" as they called themselves at first was formed by Robert Ernlund (Vocals) , Anders "Gary" Wikstrom (Guitar) and Leif "Lillen" Liljegren (Guitar) in Stockholm /Sweden in 1982, but they had all been playing together since early 1981 in "THE BOYS", a more straight ahead Rock band who sang in swedish only and recorded one album. Well... It all actually begun back in 1977 when Ernlund fronted his big brother Göran´s band "Sprängdeg" a rock´n´roll act that never recored anything but played a whole lotta live gigs in and around the Stockholm area. Liljegren, who played with HEAVY LOAD for a couple of months joined them in late 1980 and the above mentioned members became "The Boys" who later went on recording a demo tape as "THE TREAT" which by the way got turned down by every single label they sent it back in late 1982.

It wasn´t until drummer Mats "Dalton" Dahlberg (ex-Highbrow, Power) joined the guys in the summer of 1983 that things started to happen. Dalton had some contacts within Swedish Polygram who at the time was looking for a new Swedish hardrock band to sign. At the same time, bass player Tomas Lind joined The Treat and the five of them begun to record new demo songs together.

DREAMHUNTER (1987) may be the album everybody talks about when it comes to Treat, as it´s reputation and the fact that the original CD is very rare (it has been re-released now though), makes this is a collectors item for melodic fans. But... maybe its' reputation is better than the album itself? "World Of Promises" may be the best song they´ve ever done, but I still find DREAMHUNTER to be a bit overrated, even if it´s not a bad album at all. First only released in Sweden with a "statue" cover in the late summer of -87, this time with a better production than ever and even Ernlund sounded better as he took some singing lessons for the first time in his life. They toured in Sweden in the autum/winter of -87 before it was time for another change in their lifes.

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