Hailing from The Hague, Holland, Ethereal Spawn was formed in May 1998 by guitarists Chris Waalberg and Peter Reedijk, who had already played in a couple of bands together (Nidhug and Charybdis), but they never really found what they were looking for. Until Ethereal Spawn took form at the end of 1999 with Dave Ploeg on bass, Laurens Ludolph on drums and Tim Polderman on vocals. The music of the band almost naturally evolved into an extreme mixture of melody and intensity, which proved to be exactly what all band members were looking for.

Ethereal Spawn’s debut, “Ablaze in Viral Flames” (with cover artwork by Niklas Sundin) was released March 28th 2000. It counts nine melodic death metal tracks including a cover of Dark Tranquillity’s “Punish My Heaven” and two instrumentals. The band received a lot of positive response to this release, the best example being the review that appeared in Aardschok magazine in july 2000. Ethereal Spawn also competed in Aardschok’s Metal Bash 2000 and the Metal Battle of 2001 and songs of the band were featured on several compilation CD’s.

The recordings of their follow-up, “The Glint of Eden”, took place on the 7th and 8th of june 2001.

On the 8th of March 2002 the five members decided to call it quits. The band had been at a dead end for a while and after four years, two CDemo's and many performances in as well as outside of the Netherlands, the inevitable decision has been made Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.