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said in an interview that when he heard the song he knew it would be a hit so a couple of days later he wrote the song "The Final
Countdown" as a rival to their single because there is rivalry in music. At the same time "Too Wild" was released, bassist Tomas Lind left the band and was replaced by
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band to sign. Around the same time bass player Tomas Lind joined and the band began to record a demo tape. When asked in early interviews who influenced their sound the band members said that they were heavily influenced by bands such as
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in support of it. Soon after they completed the tour guitarist Leif
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which was a great success for the band and has led to them touring the world for the first time since the 1980s. The album received positive reviews from the press. In July 2014, Treat played the Väsby Rock festival in
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in the summer of 1985 and toured all over Sweden, but in August drummer Mats
Dahlberg quit the band to form his own glam metal outfit Dalton, and was soon replaced with Leif Sundin who later played with
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storming the charts and the band was unfairly compared to Europe by the media and press. The song "Rev It Up" from the album was covered by
American band Newcity Rockers and was a hit on the
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was released in 1992 and again failed to gain any success for the band and led to the band's break-up on 26 March 1993.
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645:Fredrik Thomander – bass guitar, backing vocals
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