On February 27th, the debut album As the Leaves Fall was finally released, after the work of a year and a half. We were busy making contacts around the world and were lucky to get in touch with great people. The first print ran out in two months and we had to take a second print. Otto was hailed as the new drummer.
Year 2006 was the most silent year in the history of From Ashes. Arttu and Joonas were in the army and the band had hardly any rehearsals. Dani asked if he could leave the band after getting enough of extreme metal. It was a huge loss but the band agreed. The recording processed slowly.
On the first day of the August From Ashes entered the studio in order to record their first-full length album after a year of reherasing and making demos for the album. The album was planned to be released later on the year, but it got delayed due the very limited resources available.
In November we had the legendary gig where Wille got his beard burned while breathing fire. Band decided to go for a full-length next year. Promo 2004, that was released in the summer, defined the way to go for the album.
The first demo "From Ashes" was released in April and the second demo "Dream of Eternity" later the year. Band had a lot of gigs and gained popularity in various circles. First promotional pictures were taken and they become quite popular on the Internet.
Band organized, played some gigs and got it's first rehearsal room. The band had a vision and the means of progressing towards it. By the autumn Wille came with the current name of the band.
On October Wille discussed with Arttu about forming a band which woud mix extreme metal with fast drumming and screaming guitars into deep atmosphere of string music. Arttu got immediatly interested, the band formed and the first songs were made and performed live.