The history of band has begun in March of 2005 year with attempt, exclusively for the sake of interest, to write down the pair of first songs, successfully composed by Alexey (vocal at the time). Inspired by result, Alexey suggests to his friend Eugeniy (guitar) to create the band. They’ve placed the corresponding announcement at a musical forum, and bass player Ivan and drummer Dmitriy fastly responded. After the first rehearsal of band Alexey decided to play on guitar and find the vocalist. Soon drummer Dmitriy "has disappeared" in literal sense of this word, and the group has continued rehearsals under "drum-machine". In August of 2005 year Lika, girlfriend of Ivan, becomes on a growl vocal and Patris became a new drummer. Before the first gig Ivan and Lika left the band and in a month of "idle time" Alexey and Eugeniy have submitted the announcement of a set of musicians again. The former vocalist of band «Shehine» Sergey Nikiforov has come, Alexey became to play on bass-guitar, Eugeniy left the band in the beginning of 2006 year. The group remains without the guitarists and drummer. Again the announcement – and new people: Herman (guitar), Olga (keyboard), Michael (the second guitar). In a month of rehearsals Michael and Sergey left the band for reason of musical disagreements. In August of 2006 year the band has get new vocalist Darvit and drummer of brutal death metal band Cadaveric Stench Dan. In October Eugeniy has returned to band and the band began to play the gigs already with new drummer Fedor. At the beginning of 2007 year Herman left the band and new guitarist Mihail was recruited. In the summer of 2007 year Arcana Imperia went to first concert tour on Russian cities Penza, Samara, Tolyatti and after it the band decided to record the debut album, but Fedor wasn’t ready for record and left the band with guitarist Mihail. Eugeniy set on the drums and in October began to record it. From October 2007 to January 2008 Arcana Imperia has recorded the album on Moscow studio HPJ-Records with sound-engineer Den Sain (Stigmatic Chorus). Friends of collective: Demether of Arcane Grail and Den Sain recorded the back-vocals. After the recording of album Dan of Cadaveric Stench returned on the drums and bassist of Cadaveric Stench Sandra has come. Through the some gigs Dan, Sandra and keyboardist Olga were fired in May of 2008 year, and the band has get new drummer Vitaliy and new bassist Ruslan. Debut album “Hymns of Infinite Decay†was mixed and mastered in February-March on Moscow studio KIV-records by sound-engineer Igor “KIV†Korolyov and is ready to be unleashed on the world in summer on label Sound Age Productions.
