The band consists of former Cathedral and Acid Reign members Adam Lehan and Mark Wharton, and Helen Storer.
[4] Eventually, the two would find themselves in doom metal band Cathedral, however both departed after the release of Statik Majik[2] By 2014, Lehan had approached Wharton with a number of guitar riffs he had written, leading to them beginning to write music together once again.
After some time, the pair approached former-Cathedral vocalist Lee Dorian, who agreed to release their album through his label Rise Above Records.
[7] Outburn described the sound of their debut album as "redolent of all the great doom and sludge heroes of the past and thrillingly fresh and inventive, songs like rampaging opener ‘The Windowpanes At The Lexington’ and the pulverising ‘Nowhere To Go’ sound very much like the finished, riff-worshipping article" as well as referring to it as "hate-doom".
[1] Whereas, Dead Rhetoric described it as "unafraid to obliterate in distortion gloom for the crux of an arrangement, then lob a serene clean passage midway through before a gargantuan low-tuned riff shatters the airspace".