The project began when both paul and rob met at art school in chicago. the two were both animation majors and continuously crafted music and visual projects as one. From 1997 to 2002, the band self released their music under the studio name, "paraminion studios".. which seemed fitting as rob named his studio "paranoid" [after a series of break-ins] and paul had tagged his spot as "dominion studio". Monstrum Sepsis turned into an underground success almost overnight regardless of the group's "self-released" status.