The band's story began in the autumn of 1998 ev, when Markus Marjomaa quit a local "gothic metal" band called Inevitable due to the usual artistic conflicts common to mammalian musicians. Master M., who had founded Inevitable and held the position of its lead guitarist and co-composer, began solitarily developing his musical ideas further. Soon Comte de Saint-Germain appeared to him and immediately joined Aarni. When the two gentlemen conducted an unsuccessful necromantic ritual at Moominpappa's cenotaph, a third member's addition to the band took place: Doomintroll. Simultaneously the first letter of M.M.'s surname semi-accidentally flipped over completing his mutation into Master Warjomaa.
The fourth band member does not really act as a "proper" musician, but seems nonetheless to partake in Aarni's creative processes. For Mistress Palm seems in fact composed entirely of artificial, phlogiston-driven rectoplasm and due to her apparently incorporeal nature can only exist on a computer's hard disk. |
