TALION was founded in Växjö / Sweden in 1998 by Gustav Hjortsjö (drums),
Jocke Svensson (bass) and Fredrik Lundquist (guitar and vocals) as a Death/Thrash Metal-band. Some gigs where played, some songs recorded,and in the end of 1999 Erik Almström joined the band as 2nd guitarist.
With the new lineup TALION experimented with Progressive Death Metal for about a year, before changing back their musical style to Death/Thrash Metal again.
The band continued to play gigs and record songs (among others at Soundlab Studios in Örebro with Mieszko Talarczyk from the band NASUM).
In September 2001 Fredrik moved to Stockholm. Although the band continued to rehearse and also record songs together, it slowly but surely started to fall apart.
In November 2003 the original lineup of TALION split up, due to distance, boredom and various musical conflicts.
While Gustav and Erik continued with the Heavy Metal band BULLET, and Jocke went on with his band LITANIA, Fredrik decided to carry on with TALION as a Thrash Metal-band and started searching for new bandmembers in Stockholm. Between winter 2003 and summer 2004 Fredrik recruited Magnus Karkea (who first played second guitar, but soon took over the bass), Martin Missy (ex-PROTECTOR) on vocals and Calle Sjöström (ex-UNCHASTE) on drums. The band found a rehearsing-room in Nacka and started to write new songs.
In the beginning of 2006 Magnus quit the band, but only a few days later, his replacement was found: Ludvig Engellau, vocalist of the band REMASCULATE.
After some rehearsing TALION started to record a new demo in August 2006, which was finished a few weeks later, and in May / June 2007 the band recorded their second demo since its resurrection in Stockholm.
In the beginning of 2008 things finally started to happen on the live-front.
On the 17th of January TALION played its first gig with the MK IV-lineup at
Pub Anchor in Stockholm, and on the 13th of April they performed live
in the swedish capital again, this time in the timehonoured Mosebacke.
