[2] The band was formed in the summer of 1989 in Jelgava, Latvia by four former classmates – Renārs Kaupers, Jānis Jubalts, Gundars Mauševics and Kaspars Roga.

[3] In September 1992, Brainstorm released their first single "Jo tu nāc" (Because You Come) and finished 9th in the Latvian popular music contest, the "Microphones" poll.

The most popular songs from the album were "Dārznieks" (Gardener), "Apelsīns" (Orange) and "Lidmašīnas" (Airplanes), and attendance at the band's concerts increased.

The main tracks from the album were "Viss ir tieši tā kā tu vēlies", "Mans draugs" (My Friend), "Neatgriešanās" (No Return) and "Tavas mājas manā azotē".

All five singles from the album – "Puse no sirds" (Half of a heart), "Starp divām saulēm" (Among the suns), "Lec" (English version – "Try"), "Prom uz siltajām salām" (Eng.

On 13 May 2000 in Sweden, in only 3 minutes, Prāta Vētra or Brainstorm became an internationally noticed band when they participated in the 45th Eurovision Song Contest.

In 2004, one of the band founders died on the night between 22 and 23 May in a car accident on the highway between Riga and Jelgava – bassist Gundars Mauševics or as his friends called him – Mumiņš was only 29 years old.

In 2004, Brainstorm and a well-known Belarusian band Bi-2 recorded the song "Skol'zkie Ulitsy" (Slippery Streets), which was included on their album "Inomarki", released on 2 March 2004 and which reached number 1 on radio charts in Latvia, Ukraine and Russia.

Concerts have been held by the band in Western Europe and they continue to gain popularity in the United Kingdom due to their similarity to Beirut.

On the festival season of 2012 BrainStorm played following festivals – The Great Escape (UK), Music Matters (Singapore), Rock For People (Czech Republic), Nashestvije, Kubana, Krilja and Red Rocks (Russia), Watergate (Estonia), Sziget (Hungary), Vilnius Music Week (Lithuan2013ia), Culture Co2013e (USA), and Live Sessions Day (Spain).

And on 10 February 2015, the first single "Ziemu apēst" from the Latvian version of the album named "7 soļi svaiga gaisa" ("7 Steps of Fresh Air") was released.

On 19 May, two versions of the new album were released simultaneously – "7 soļi svaiga gaisa" for Latvia and "7 Steps of Fresh Air" for Russia and the CIS.

For the first time during the entire period of the band's existence, its members told their life stories in a very sincere way, with all the available turns and twists.

On 12 November, jointly with Ultra Production and "Наше радио", BrainStorm released their first vinyl album "7 Steps Of Fresh Air", which was presented in Moscow's Duran Bar prior to the start of their Russian tour.

On 14 November, for the first time, the musicians presented their new programme to Moscow spectators at Stadium Live, and already the next day BrainStorm went on their longest Russian tour of recent years.

During a period of three weeks, the musicians visited Kaliningrad, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Samara, Kazan, Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Voronezh, Saint Petersburg and other cities.

"[11] On 1 December, BrainStorm's new DVD "7 soļi svaiga gaisa" ("7 Steps of Fresh Air"), filmed during their Riga concert, was released.

On the same day, the continuation of the 2016 local summer tour was announced and the date of the next concert – to be held on 20 August 2016 in Liepaja, at the Daugava Stadium.

The members of BrainStorm decided not to take a break to record a new album, whose preliminary release was scheduled for spring 2018, but to create new material in a rock-'n'-roll tour environment, while travelling and discovering new territories and cities.

In the summer, the artists played at the Ukrainian festival Atlas Weekend and in the autumn went on a tour in Russia, which was named "Между берегами" ("Between Shores") and included the following cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Tyumen, Omsk, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod.

Prior to the start of the tour, Brainstorm presented the first single from their future album – the song "Как я искал тебя", recorded with Marina Kravets, the only female resident of the Comedy Club.

Within the framework of the autumn tour, special screenings of the documentary "Brainstorm: Between Shores", organised by the cinema network Karo, took place in Russian cities.

And in Latvia, a separate premiere took place – the main track from the album's Latvian version was released "Par to zēnu, kas sit skārda bungas" ("About the boy who plays the tin drums").

Apart from the musical announcements, BrainStorm pleased with the news about their participation in the Russian film "7 ужинов" ("7 Dinners") by the director Kirill Pletnyov (Кирилл Плетнёв), to be released in early 2019, where the musicians played themselves in the culmination scene of this romantic comedy.