Andreas Rimheden and Marie Hagelqvist had occasionally recorded music together since the mid 90s. The style ranged from synthpop to minimalist industrial songs and was often a crossover between these styles. At the beginning of the new millennium they decided to really form a band together. The band name was taken from a cluster of mountains on the South Pole called Eternity Range, which emphasizes the electronically cold and ethereal sound they were striving for.
Andreas and Marie started producing songs for a full length album, which was released by a small Greek label in 2002 and was called Private Void. A remix of the song Wonderland from this first album also appeared on a compilation from the bigger US label Cleopatra.
A year later a third member joined the band: Loita Jahnsson, who plays the violin. She greatly enhanced the romantic yet dark mood of the music and brought another dimension to the band’s live performances. By then the band had already made most of the songs for a second album on which their musical style has developed further into something more sensitive and mellow; a darker form of electro pop with strokes of industrial harshness. The inspiration for their music and lyrics is taken from life itself and from dreams and nightmares. Vulnerability, sorrow, fear but sometimes also mysticism and fantasy are the main lyrical themes.
For the second album the band signed a deal with a US label called Kinetic Media to which a few of big names in the electro pop/electroclash scene of that time were also signed, such as Kitbuilders and Hong Kong Counterfeit. The new CD was called Solitude and was released in 2005. Tracks from that CD also appeared on compilations from the Kinetic Media label and a Swedish label named Plutonium Distribution.
The music of Eternity Range has received great reviews in popular fanzines from both Europe and the USA and has been played in Swedish national radio. The band has so far performed live only in Sweden and Denmark but is currently working with a German booking agent to reach out into other parts of Europe in the near future.
Andreas is also involved in a popular industrial electronic band: Morticians, for which he has been making a much harder kind of music since the early 90s. Loita has appeared in recordings by the Swedish band Fake who had a massive hit in the 80s with the song Brick.