[1] Depressed Mode was formed in 2005 as a solo project of Ossy Salonen.
[1][2] Tomppa Turpeinen later joined as guitarist and Natalie Koskinen (Shape of Despair) as second vocalist.
Jori Haukio left the band in late 2007, and Teemu Heinola took his place as a guitarist.
The band recorded its second album ..For Death in summer 2008, which was released in February 2009; Kerrang!
[4] In a 2018 interview with doom-metal.com regarding Depressed Mode, vocalist Natalie Koskinen stated that nobody actively placed it to the side, but "life happened and Ossi wanted to centralize on his main work and family."