The Dutch heavy metallers released an EP called Breaks Loose in 1984 on HMF RECORDS, before re-appearing in 1991 with a full-length album. The band's first two releases were demo tapes from 1981 and 1982. From then on several demo tapes appeared at regular intervals throughout the '80s and '90s.
Hammerhawk was formed in 1982 when Australian singer and bassist Maniac Bruyns and drummer Ray van Wijngaarden decided to form the "loudest metal band in the Netherlands." 1998's The Future, Written In The Past was a compilation of the band's accumulated material. In 1998 the band joined forces with The Mentors for respective tours of the bands' areas.
The band built its own studio in 2000 promising to record all future material there.