In the fall of 1988 two guys named Orvar and Erik decided to form a Death Metal band: they really never wanted a typical Death Metal name, so the project was called Prophet 2002.1989: Even thought no studio recording was available yet their rehearsal tapes gained easily a lot of interest. After a few time they changed the name to because Orvar was interested in metaphysical philosophy, parapsychology and stuff like that at the time, and they released a porta-demo called