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biografía : Alien Force

Up through the 70', in the “great little country” called Denmark, in the “big little capital” called Copenhagen, specifically Østerbro the 5 boys lived and fumbled round like so many others, without knowing each other, except for Michael and Henrik, who were brothers, they lived a simple life but with a similar, to play music and hear heavy rock
At one point in the mid-70' the two brothers started a band called "NO RAPE", a kind of new-wave-punk rock music with jumps from point to break out in Denmark at the time.
With the release of a demo tape and a lot of live jobs, they established a sound relationship which later will characterized for their solid background in music.
After some personnel changes in the band (bass and vocals), they contacted a guy who went under the name "Peter flute", which, in addition to flute, had a remarkably strong voice that could match the new approach, which the band had at that time, an approach which pointed towards a more hard-hitting sound and music. The 4 boys decide to pursue a more ambitious approach and went in studio, to record a single, switch the band name with "ZEYKING".
But trees are not grown, as you know, in to heaven, so after having to contend with printing in Sweden and the Danish postal services around some boxes of plates, which were completely unusable because of irreverent handling, the band decides to take a few copies and leave the rest to an uncertain fate.
Wise of the injury, the boys went out on their musical process, with plenty of live jobs, plays bla. Jagtvej 69 and Christiania (Rock Machine) ect. ect.
This is done in late 70' and early 80' and simultaneously with the heavy rock becomes more visible, there is a slow change of the music of the 4 boys universe, their music is becoming more and more focused, more and more hard cash, inspired by bands as Judas Priest - Saxon - Iron Maiden, etc., which lead them to yet another replacement, Michael Frank on bass, plus a supplement (Michael Wenzel) on guitar and yet another name change, Alien Force was born.
From 1980 to 1985 the band live a pretty hectic life, live jobs and outreach, addressing labels, regular work and with preparing for the first LP, which will finalize produced by a German record company (Telac records), with a branch in Denmark, and Alien Force is now a familiar name on the Danish heavy rock scene.
Unfortunately it happens that Telac records cracker and the further promotion work stagnated. First trying to run on the corners with the band, in form of false advertising, the plate is recorded on cassette and sold at gasstations around the country, but with a different cover, etc. Therefore, the band contacted the company for an explanation, but faced with hopeless explanations and excuses which lead to the band interrupt cooperation with the company.
When the band signed a contract with Telac records was the agreement that Alien Force had full rights, so before the final break, the band demanded their right to the recorded tape, which was recorded on a 16 track tape recorder in a garage in Hvidovre.
But under unexplained circumstances, the band ended up on the parent (AEG-Telefunken) office, where they had no idea about the case, but after a lot of wrangling, they got the tape.

Despite these circumstances, the boys goes from company to company, (one before the horse each time) because at that time, it is outrageous to play heavy rock in Denmark who only released a certain number of plates and controlled completely by abroad.

Source : www.alienforce.dk/diskografi.htm