[1] Silent Stream of Godless Elegy was formed in Hranice in 1995 by brothers Michal (drums) and Radek Hajda (guitar).

SSoGE's second album, Behind the Shadows, released in 1998 on Redblack, expanded the band's repertoire, with more pronounced rhythmic and stylistic techniques, which gained them a wider international audience.

The album won the band an Anděl Award (then known as Ceny Akademie populární hudby) in 2000 from the Czech Academy of Popular Music in the "Hard & Heavy" category.

These were "Zapálili Jsme Onen Svět", a song by Czech black metal band Master's Hammer; "Blood, Milk and Sky" by White Zombie; and "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin.

[1] Following this, the band went through several lineup changes, leaving Radek Hajda as the sole founding member, though Michal Sýkora eventually returned.