In 2002, four friends - Will Brown, Devon Colsa, John Moon, and Keith Miller - started a band called Dragon's Doom. After playing a few introductions for larger bands, the band collapsed after an argument between Brown on one side and Miller and Moon on the other (with Colsa neutral), about adding a new member of the band. Brown initially wished to keep the name, but later changed it to The Griffin's Doom. Miller, Colsa and Moon, however, in a wish to keep separate from the original band, started a new one called the Silent Monks, recruiting Kuang and Malloy. The band initially played under that name, but changed it just prior to their release of Haven of the Doomed to its present name, after a friend suggested that since Brown had dropped the name, they might use that now.