Nils Patrik Johansson, Joachim Nordlund and Martin Haglund all inhabited the Swedish town of Borlänge, where they all practiced with their respective bands at a club called the Rock House.

Influenced by Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, the band went on until 2002, when it broke up following a musical decline during their fourth demo recording.

The engineer for the demo recording was another Rock House regular, Nordlund, frontman for the band Erina.

They hired Joakim Roberg, whom they had collaborated with on some of the songs, and Martin Haglund of the band earflog, as members, and began the project.

The band reached a temporary climax when they were a support act on Blind Guardian's 2006 tour for the album A Twist in the Myth.

Their sound was allegedly born through their song "Of the Son and the Father", about the clergy sex abuse scandal in the United States.

Haglund, who had begun the project as the bassist, soon switched to guitar, and Mika Itäranta was hired to play bass.

This was Martin Haglund's last album with Astral Doors; after mixing the record and he retired to spend more time with his family.