The Austrian black metal project was founded in the year 2011 by L.G. as a solo project and turned into a live project in 2012 with session musicians. The band’s name comes from a Middle High German adjective originating from the West Germanic *alja-landja-, which can be translated as “being out of the (/one’s) country.” In the sense of „exiled,“ this took on a negative connotation over time, reflected in modern German elend, i.e., „miserable.“ Read more on