[Strappado]

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Artist: Target
Release: Demo, 1988
Genre: Heavy / Power Metal
Country: USA (Chicago?)
Bitrate: 128kbps
►5-Tracks: Hidden Link
►10-Tracks: Hidden Link
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Obscure demo from a Chicago band called Target (active 1987-1989).
The band seem to have featured two Swedish members (David and Jimmy).

Amazing heavy/power metal with killer vocals.
A live video with the band can be seen here.
If someone know if they released something else please let me know.

UPDATE: Complete version of the demo added (10 tracks, 5 unknown titles).
Thanks to Messendger80 for the info!

Jim Harvey - Vocals
David Bergman - Guitar (Heavy Water, Step 3, University of Illinois Chicago Jazz Ensemble)
Robert Fesus - Guitar, Keyboard (Micheal Riser Band, Canyon, Diezel, Sam Lynn, The Squids, Vision)
Feris Suqi - Bas
Jimmy Berg - Drums
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Incomplete Demo, 1988
1. Visions
2. Victory
3. Driven By Force
4. Addiction
5. Successor

Complete Demo, 1988
1. Successor
2. Victory
3. Unknown Title
4. Unknown Title
5. Addiction
6. Driven By Force
7. Unknown Title
8. Unknown Title
9. Visions
10. Unknown Title

[Strappado]

Are you sure they were from Chicago ?
I have it - but the informatons i have is that they were from New Jersey...

Hmm not 100%, I was just going after the bio by a member and their Facebook profiles.
But yeah you never know, the band could have been based somewhere else.

David Bergman
I started playing violin and guitar at an early age, eventually favoring the guitar.
By age 13 I began performing with small groups and community bands in Chicago.

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[Metalhuhn]

I think i got this from Reverbnation or Soundcloud 6 months ago from a christian musician that used to play in this band and he had these mp3 to download (among the acoustic/pop/folk/country/gospel stuff he is doing in recent years) and if i'm not wrong he wrote the band was based in New Jersey. Perhaps 1 day later we can find more infos about it and certificate exact location from the band...

[Metalhuhn]

Ok, it was a band from Chicago, Illinois.

But the demo had 10 tracks - not 5.

It's pre-Das Krieg with a different line-up and more Power/Prog than D.K.

[Messendger80]

http://www.suqmusic.com/chronology/target/

You can stream all 10 tracks here, but there aren't song titles listed.

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[Strappado]

Thanks for the link

I split the tracks and added download link to first post
Added titles to the 5 known songs as well

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