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The Quill came out of the ashes of the band Quil and was formed by Magnus Ekwall, Christian Carlsson, George Atlagic, Anders Haglund and original bassist Peter Holm in the beginning of the 90´s and played the Swedish barcircuit the following years. Peter Holm left the band at the end of 1993 and saw Roger Nilsson stepping in to fill his shoes. After writing material for half a year they entered Berno studio in Malmö and recorded their debut-CD in three weeks.

This is how crazy you get after three weeks in a recording studio...

After signing a recorddeal with Megarock Records the album was released in Europe in March 1995. Also a video for the track "Jet of water" was recorded. The album got an overwhelming reception by the critics and was later voted number 70 in Sweden´s biggest newspaper "Aftonbladets" poll, Top 100 albums of the year. Not bad for an underground band without a big record company behind their back. Other reviews that can be mentioned: 4 out of 5 in Raw, 81 out of 100 in Burrn Magazine.

After a short promotion tour in Sweden with Abstrakt Algebra, The Quill played the Karlshamn Rockfestival with bands like Black Sabbath and Fleetwood Mac. A tour in Germany was booked but was later cancelled due to some trouble with the record company. Instead The Quill played some more festivals in Sweden. After playing all over Sweden for almost a year the band went underground to start working on the next album. In may 1997 Anders Haglund decided to leave the band, the others feeling no need of a new organ player decided to continue as a four piece band.

In August 1997 the band entered Berno Studio in Malmö again and started working on the second album. A month later the album was finished. The band had then recorded 13 new songs.

Left to right: Christian Carlsson, Magnus Ekwall, Anders Haglund, Engineer Berno Paulsen, Roger Nilsson, George Atlagic.

Since the release of the album was delayed and the guys had written some new songs that they very much wanted on the album they re-entered Berno Studios in the summer of 1998 and recorded the tracks "Grand Canyon, "Under a vow" and "Mercury". At the same session they also recorded the song "A Sinner´s Fame" originally made by the band Trouble, and the song "Fairies Wear Boots" originally recorded by Black Sabbath. During the autumn of -98 they did a smaller tour in Sweden together with a band called Bullhorn.

The beginning of -99 finally saw the release of the second album entitled Silver Haze and, as the first time around, the press was really enthusiastic. The summer of -99 saw The Quill playing a number of festivals in Sweden and also in Denmark. The highlight of the summer was the gig at Sweden Rock Festival where The Quill played together with bands like Deep Purple, Motörhead, Captain Beyond and Dio. The summer also saw the release of a 10" EP called Evermore on Froghouse records. During all this the band also managed to visit Berno Studios two times and record their versions of "Where Eagles Dare" by Iron Maiden, "Frozen Over" by Captain Beyond and lastly "Mount Everest" by November.

The feather-flying end of The Quill´s performance at Sweden Rock Festival 1999!