Leviticus

Leviticus was founded by Björn Stigsson, Håkan Andersson and Kjell Andersson in the early 80's. The band's first record was released as a Maxi EP back in 1982, it included four tracks, and was titled "Stå Och Titta På", with all lyrics sung in Swedish. The first album released by Leviticus, the last recording with Swedish lyrics, was released in 1983, and was titled "Jag Skall Segra!".
During the year 1984, things really started to take off. Leviticus released an English version of the album "Jag Skall Segra!", it was titled "I Shall Conquer". The band also got a contract with an American record label, and from now on, all Leviticus albums were released world-wide.
In 1985, Leviticus had a huge success with their album "The Strongest Power". According to the American metal magazine "Kerrang", the album was "one of the best records this year...", and a lot of superlatives were written about the band. This year, Leviticus had their breakthrough worldwide.
They played the Greenbelt festival in England three times, 1984, 1985, and 1987, and the Scandinavium in Gothenburg twice (1985, 1987). The second appearance at the Scandinavium was with a festival, and was filmed by Sveriges Television.
In 1987, Leviticus released the album "Setting Fire To The Earth", which became a best-seller around the world, and which got lots of great reviews in many different music magazines. They also contributed with the songs "Love Is Love" and "Flames Of Fire" on the 'Solid Rock Import (1987)' compilation. Before this recording, Håkan Andersson left the band and Ez Gomér replaced Håkan on the bass guitar, Terry Haw joined and became the band's lead singer. Both later left to form Jet Circus. With this lineup they toured extensively in Europe throughout 1986-1987.
Early in 1988, they toured again in Sweden and in April they returned to England. Their first United States tour was in August 1988, when they opened for Larry Norman and played as his backup band. In fall of that year they toured for two months throughout Europe. together with Bloodgood and concluded the year playing the Ennepetal Christmas Rock Night festival in Germany for the second time.
In 1989, Leviticus released the album "Knights Of Heaven". This album was recorded and produced in the USA. This album also received some great reviews in a lot of magazines worldwide. The Swedish newspaper "Göteborgs-Posten" wrote Leviticus takes the top position in Swedish hard rock, together with Europe. On this album, Peo Pettersson replaced Terry H. on lead vocals and Niklas Franklin replaced Ez Gomér on the bass guitar. This album was produced by the famous Elefante brothers, John and Dino.
Before breaking up in the latter part of 1990, they again toured in the United States and Canada.
After 13 years of silence, Leviticus got together again and started playing. The band released the album, "Live At Bobfest 2003". The line-up on this reunion was: Peo Pettersson on lead vocals, Björn Stigsson on guitars, Kjell Andersson on drums, Niklas Edberger on keyboards, and Niklas Franklin on bass guitar.