DESPOND was created in 1995, from the ashes of the death metal band Perished (initialy founded in 1993). The band started exploring the doom/death metal genre, and released his first demo tape « As my Soul reaches Infinity » in 1996. In the end of the same year, DESPOND recorded a concert in Paris (with headliner Impaled Nazarene), and the live tape album « Beheaded and Sanctified » was released in Spring 1997. Until the end of 1998, the band toured in France and composed enough material to enter the studio and record his debut album. Read more on Last.fm