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Snowstorm was founded in Gothenburg in the winter of 1976 when four friends highly influenced by Thin Lizzys ‘Jailbreak’ bought some new Marshall amplifiers. The guitarists Peter Nordholm and Lars Dille Diedricson did their best to copy the sound of the Lizzy axemens Gorham and Robertsson. Dille were chosen to sing and the band started to write hardrock tracks in English. They took every possible gig they could and soon had a local following. They recorded their first demo and Ola Hakansson at Sonet Records liked what he heard so two tracks ‘Fuzzy’ and ‘Hising Island’ were released as a single and the band also appeared on a compilation album called ‘Swedish Tracks 79’. The band also appeared on Swedish TV and Radio and the band soon changed label to EMI and the hardrock influences were toned down and the band started to write material in Swedish instead. The self titled album was released in January 1980 but the band had a hard time to agree on what to do next so the band split with the promise that none of the members continued under the name Snowstorm . Dille Diedricson and Peter Nordholm joined forces with Imre Daun (Alien/White Wolf and Gypsy Rose) and Henrik Thomsen and played under the name of Snostorm (Swedish name for Snowstorm) while Micael Serenban and Torben Ferm started an act called Rosen together with Ralph Peeker. During this time the label boss Bert Karlsson at Mariann records bought the rights to the album and released in on his label and released the track ‘Sommarnatt’ on single. With the right connections and promotion the single became one of the most sold singles in Sweden that year and it sold more than 30 000 copies. The Snowstorm version were to guitar driven to be a radio success so the much softer act Wizex made a cover version of it and it stayed on the Swedish charts on ‘Svensktoppen’ between the 7th of December 1980 until the 1st of Februari 1981. This is the original vinyl single released in 1980 the B-side features the none album track called ‘Message’ which actually has the same music as ‘Sommarnatt’ but with a totally different English lyrics. This recording features Dille Diedricson and Peter Nordholm who later went on to Don Patrol. Track listing: 1. Sommarnatt 2. Message