TIAMAT frontman Johan Edlund, a resident of Täby, Sweden, struck out on a no frills Gothic Rock n' Roll direction with the 2001 solo side project LUCYFIRE. Scoring a deal with Germany's SPV Steamhammer Records LUCYFIRE issued 'This Dollar Saved My Life At Whitehorse'. The album, produced by Dirk Draeger who also contributed guitar, saw the utilisation of session performers Bertram Engel on drums, Jan Kazder on bass, Marc Engelmann on keyboards and secondary vocals courtesy of Sille Lemke. Quite bizarrely the record included a cover version of ZZ TOP's 'Sharp Dressed Man'.

Edlund, billing himself as "Notorious PIG" for the LUCYFIRE endeavour also assembled a live band for an appearance at the 'Mera Luna' festival in Hildesheim, Germany. The live LUCYFIRE band saw Edlund in the esteemed company of former GLAM SLAM, LACRIMOSA, THERION and KINGDOM COME guitarist Eric Förster, TIAMAT's Anders Iwers on guitar, Carlos Satanos on bass, DARK TRANQUILITY keyboard player Martin Brändström and CATASTROPHE BALLET drummer Alexander Sauerländer.

With TIAMAT drummer Lars Sköld delegated production duties, LUCYFIRE undertook work on album recordings in November 2006. A four track demo was distributed to labels in January 2006.