STEEL ATTACK
They started out in 1995 with a band named "Mayer's Eve". Back then Steve was playing the drums and Mayer's Eve, had the following line up: Steve - Drums, Dennis - Guitar, and there where 3 more as well but none of them continued to play music. Since it was so hard to find available musicians (that where not involved with to many other bands) then the band started looking for a new drummer instead of Steve, who told the other members that he got in contact with a drummer in another band that was falling apart, so Andreas de Vera got to be the drummer.
Now the year is 1997 and the band changed the name from Mayer's Eve to Steel Attack because they wanted to start out fresh again. The band was actually working with the following line up: Steve Steel - Vocal and Bass, Dennis Westman - Guitar, Mike Böhlin - Guitar and Andreas de Vera - Drums.
But Mike had to quit for lack of time, so now it was February 1998 and the band was a 3 piece band till the end of May when they asked John Allan to join them as the lead guitar player for Steel Attack.
John played in a other band till Mars 1998 but he got tired of playing covers (easiest way to get gigs, sad but true) so he quit the cover band just to get back to writing own songs and to play in a band that was writing fast and melodic metal original songs. That was perfect for him to join with Steel Attack.
The band sent a demo to 6 record labels and within 5 days they got the first response from one and within 2 weeks the band got answers from the rest. After some time they decided to deal and sign for AFM Records in June 1998.
So next step was the recording of the album "Where Mankind Fails" in the Studio Underground between the dates 25 Sept - 16 October 1998. And the choir and final mix was done 4 January - 11 January 1999 and the release date 21 June 1999.
But Andreas de Vera left the band and went back to his studies two weeks before the release. He already told the band that in May but wasn't too sure if he should do that or not. But to let the band be prepared for that they started rehearse with a new drummer Roger Raw. Roger became the new drummer for Steel Attack.
So the line up now was: Steve Steel on Vocal + Bass, Dennis Westman Guitar, Roger drums and John Allan lead guitar.

The story continues: The 2: nd album "Fall into Madness" was recorded as the first one in Studio Underground in May 2000, but the release didn't took place until over a year later in June 2001.
Roger left the band 4 Nov 2000 cause he got no time for being in a band, because he was a single parent and had a hard time to find time for rehearsals etc. Then they got in touch with Andreas again who actually moved back to the hometown. So at this state Steel Attack was back in the original line up.
They got a change in the Steel Attack story again when Steve decided to quit the lead vocal and they got hold of the new lead singer, Dick Johnson early 2001. Next change that the band felt was coming was that Steve left the band to focus on drums with Carnal Forge. Steve left the band in just a week before Carnal did Wacken Open Air 2001.
After some auditions the band find the replacement for Steve's bass and back vocal in bass player Patrick Späth in September 2001.
The band had change in the line-up again in the end of 2001, and this time Andreas decided to leave Steel Attack and quit playing drums as well. So some auditions later the band got to be complete line-up with the drummer Mike Stark.
The band did several gigs with everything from US to Europe to the Sweden Rock Festival 2002. The lineup: John, Dennis, Dick Johnson on vocal, Mike Stark Drums and Patrick Späth on bass/back vocal.
The band signed for Arise Metal and recorded the 3: rd album "Predator of the Empire" in November 2002 and the release of the album were in May 2003. The band did the cover song Dr. Stein for the Helloween cover album as the first recording for Arise Records.

Next and so far the last change in the story of Steel Attack:
Dick was the first one that had to leave because he didn't focus on the band as much as it took to get the band working, so after some contacts with other bands they finally got hold of the lead vocalist Ronny Hemlin (Lack of Faith) and he joined the band in the end of 2003.
Just a few rehearsals later, they took a serious talk about the situation in the band regarding rehearsals etc, so Patrick took the first step to tell all in the band that the best for the band and the situation was that if he left, so he did, and in the same Dennis quit as well, he was to tired of getting back to audition a new bass player and start over again.
Just a few minutes after they left the rehearsal studio then John called his old friend Johan Jalonen (Asperity) to be the new guitar player for the band, later that evening in January 2004 the band where John, Mike and the new lead vocalist Ronny and Johan on guitar. So in the very beginning of February they decided to not continue with the songs that Patrick and Dennis where involved in and to start fresh from the first day.
So within a few months they had the songs made for the new album "Enslaved" and now finally the band seems to be more as a unit than it ever was. They recorded the new album in a different studio this time, the studio was Black Lounge Studio owned by the lead vocalist Jonas Kjellgren (Carnal Forge) just to even more get a new sound of the band as it will be noticeable on the new album, the recording took place between the 19th April to the end of May 2004. "Enslaved" was mastered by Peter In de Betou (Hypocrisy)

The album Enslaved will be out in October 2004.

STEEL ATTACK:
Johan Jalonen - guitar
Mike Steel - drums
Ronny Hemlin - vocals
John Allan - guitar
Anden Andersson - bass

Discography:
Where Mankind Fails
Fall into Madness
Predator Of The Empire
Enslaved (October 2004)