Liverpool's YEAR ZERO was formed by guitarist Mark Griffiths following his departure from CATHEDRAL at the close of their 1992 American tour. Promoting the 1993 'Nihil's Flame' album, released by German Doom specialists Hellhound Records, the band opened for COUNT RAVEN in 1994. A second album, 'Creation', arrived in 1995. Griffiths would later join the post CARCASS act BLACKSTAR.