
The musical beginnings of Monsterworks took form in the early 1990s from the distorted dreams of Jon and Jared, two high school buddies with a mutual love of a vast array of metal. Then at University Jon met Ian who had a likewise broad metal mind. Eventually these three kindred spirits would all meet in a community-run studio in Palmerston North, New Zealand, to record a first track penned by Ian called "Cascading Past", later re-recorded for the first album.