As an aural stimuli Ecliptic began its existence in 1998, formed by Markus Hampel and Sidney Mortensen. It is the embodiement of an idea of musical perception, a purpose given substance and cause given effect by the macro and micro of existence. 　　 What we create is not often easily defined, fitting within and yet without many metal genre specific parameters, so classify us how you see fit. At present we reside on the Eastern shore of the North American continent, however as a mental and auditory form we hail from parts unknown and draw our water far and wide. As individuals our origins reside in the old country but we claim no geneology as our own, for we are everything and nothing, merely what others will us to be... and that which is perceived...