Historia: On early 2009, Essedarius was formed under the name of "Powerfest". The band was formed by Ollipekka Toimela and Juho Lakkala. They both quit from the same band earlier. Together, they started to look for members, and after a couple of days they invited their first bassist, Jesse Illikainen. It took some time to get new members since Sodankylä, where the band was formed, is a small town (9.000 inhabitants). On early days of summer, Sammeli Lepola joined the band as drummer. Together they started composing their first tracks called Slave Politics and Wander Around. With this consistence, the band lasted about half a month. Drummer, Sammeli Lepola was kicked due to differences in musical visions. Juho Lakkala, the lead guitarist of the band, managed to take Sammeli's place as a drummer and Jesse's brother, Joona took his place as a lead guitarist. Then, the whole thing started struggling. Joona and Juho changed places, so Juho was back as a lead guitarist and Joona took place as drummer. With this consistence, the band started to run again. Eventually, after christmas, there started to be problems around. Ollipekka Toimela was kicked out of band due to his bossy and dominating attitude. A day after, he was taken back to the band. Also the band found a singer, after long searches. Teemu Hietala was taken to the band as a vocalist. The band was up for a couple of weeks, and then problems started to arrive again. The band started looking for a name on christmas, and the decision was still not made when it was January. Also, the band managed to record a demo with 6 tracks, but differences in musical points of views stopped the progress. Juho was kicked due to musical differences. Jesse, Joona, Teemu and Ollipekka then started to look for a guitarist. Over christmas Ollipekka had learned to do many different techniques with soloing, and decided to step up to lead guitarist. After one day of searching, Ville Kulmala joined the band as second guitarist. At this point, band ended up with name "Essedarius". Then the band managed to start from scratch, and started composing new songs. They are going to record their first demo on late march, with 4 tracks.