Hail of Bullets formed at the end of 2006 when guitarist Stephan Gebédi recruited singer Martin van Drunen, drummer Ed Warby, bass player Theo van Eekelen and guitarist Paul Baayens for an old school death metal band.

As drummer Ed Warby relates, the band formed "after a night of hard drinking" when the members, hung over, decided to "bring back the old school values that we felt were sorely missing from modern day death metal.

In the beginning of 2010 the band started work on its second full-length album, which focused upon the Pacific Campaign of World War II.

Dan Swanö again mixed and mastered the album, with production duties falling to Ed Warby.

[5] At the end of 2015 Hail of Bullets parted ways with singer Martin van Drunen because of personal issues.