Dark Moor was formed in 1993 in Madrid, Spain, and recorded their debut album, Shadowland, in the summer of 1999.

[citation needed] Dark Moor began the recording sessions for their second album, The Hall of the Olden Dreams, in August 2000 at New Sin Studios with producer Luigi Stefanini.

[citation needed] Dark Moor began the recording of their third album, The Gates of Oblivion, in Autumn 2001 at New Sin Studios.

After the auditions, they accepted vocalist Alfred Romero, guitarist Jose Garrido, and drummer Andy C. In August 2003, the band started recording their fourth album, Dark Moor, at New Sin Studios in Italy.

On 23 November 2006, the band announced the departure of their drummer on their official website, due to "incompatibility with his other musical projects."

[2][3] On 21 July 2018, Enrik Garcia, guitarist and founder of the band, announced via Facebook that their next album would be called Origins and that, after the parenthesis they did with ufology themes on Project X, they would return to their habitual themes; Origins will be about the Celtic world, also adding Celtic instruments on their new songs.