The swedish band JACKWAVE was active only in a short three year period beginning in 1985. A changing of bandmembers ended the career from these young hopefuls fast. Two bands playing a similar Heavy Metal style are much more well known today: IRONCROSS from Finland and.... HEAVY LOAD...the domestic competitors. The songwriting was on the same high level and even the vocals were powerful and high class! But JACKWAVE made only two 7inchs and two demo tapes spreading over the world only in self distribution. By living not in a big town, but Boxholm, which probably nobody outside of Sweden knows, it was defnitely impossible to reach a useful number of Metal fans without a strong label in the background. So today the band JACKWAVE is only known to a few specialists. With the reedition of all the material the band made during their time of existing, this will hopefully change a bit.
