Home Band Live Media History Contact Music 1980 – 1986 –Unchained The foundation of the band reaches back to 1979 when bassist Chris Pawlak formed the first „heavy-band“. The name SPEED LIMIT appeared for the first time around 1980 (taken from Bon Scott´s lyrics to „Highway To Hell“ – from the then latest AC/DC record.) In 1984 the bands AMPERE – guitarist and songwriter Chris Angerer, guitarist Jocky Brunner and singer Hans Huthmann - and SPEED LIMIT allied their forces. They chose the name SPEED LIMIT for it´s better sound. The founding members consider this as the real birth of SPEED LIMIT. The line up of those days, which had been completed with drummer Andy Rethmaier, managed to collect a reasonable ammount of fans and SPEED LIMIT gigs turned out to be a melting point for the upcoming hardrock- and metal-scene of the mid 80ies in Salzburg. Encouraged by the positive feedback the band had gathered from the rest of austria and the nearby bavaria they dared the next big step: a self-financed longplay-record, an uncommon enterprice for a newcomer-band in those days. They´d been proven right. In 1986 they released „Unchained“ – a milestone in the austran rock-history – which is till now a rare collector´s item in the melodic hardrock/ metal scene worldwide (i.e. Ebay). Impressum
Home Music Band Live History Media Contact 1980 – 1986 –Unchained The foundation of the band reaches back to 1979 when bassist Chris Pawlak formed the first „heavy-band“. The name SPEED LIMIT appeared for the first time around 1980 (taken from Bon Scott´s lyrics to „Highway To Hell“ – from the then latest AC/DC record.) In 1984 the bands AMPERE – guitarist and songwriter Chris Angerer, guitarist Jocky Brunner and singer Hans Huthmann - and SPEED LIMIT allied their forces. They chose the name SPEED LIMIT for it´s better sound. The founding members consider this as the real birth of SPEED LIMIT. The line up of those days, which had been completed with drummer Andy Rethmaier, managed to collect a reasonable ammount of fans and SPEED LIMIT gigs turned out to be a melting point for the upcoming hardrock- and metal-scene of the mid 80ies in Salzburg. Encouraged by the positive feedback the band had gathered from the rest of austria and the nearby bavaria they dared the next big step: a self-financed longplay-record, an uncommon enterprice for a newcomer-band in those days. They´d been proven right. In 1986 they released „Unchained“ – a milestone in the austran rock-history – which is till now a rare collector´s item in the melodic hardrock/ metal scene worldwide (i.e. Ebay). Impressum