1993 Autumn: András Nagy forms Sear Bliss together with former Extreme Deformity bassist Csaba Tóth. Former Animosity musicians, János Barbarics (guitars) and Norbert Keibinger (drums) join Sear Bliss.
1994 January: Sear Bliss starts intense rehearsals. Spring: Csaba Tóth quits Sear Bliss. Gergely Szücs joins Sear Bliss as a trumpet player. Former Extreme Deformity vocalist Csaba Csejtei joins Sear Bliss as a guitar player and his brother Zoltán Csejtei, former Extreme Deformity guitarist joins Sear Bliss as vocalist. Winter joins Sear Bliss on keyboards. The work on the songs for "The Pagan Winter" demo begins.
1995 April: Norbert Keibinger leaves Sear Bliss. "The Pagan Winter" is recorded (LMS Studio, Szombathely. Engineered by Bertalan Domby) with Balázs Bertalan from Extreme Deformity as session-drummer. May: "The Pagan Winter" is released. Winter quits Sear Bliss. Gergely Szücs takes over the keyboards beside the trumpet. Zoltán Csejtei takes over the drums and András Nagy takes over the vocals beside the bass. Sear Bliss starts working on new songs. Summer: "The Pagan Winter" tape gets surprisingly good reviews and responses. Some labels become interested in the band. August: Sear Bliss plays its first live show, in Budapest. November: Winter rejoins Sear Bliss. Sear Bliss decides to sign to Mascot / Two Moons Records for three albums. More than 800 copies of "The Pagan Winter" are sold.
1996 January: The first album, titled "Phantom" is recorded (LMS Studio, Szombathely. Engineered by Bertalan Domby and Ferenc Vida). July: The label decides to change the title of the album to "Phantoms". August: "Phantoms" is released. Holland's leader metal magazine Aardshock awards it as "CD Of The Month". It is the first (and only) time in the magazine's history that the award goes to a black metal album. The song called "Aeons Of Desolation" appears on the compilation CD of the Dutch progressive rock magazine IO Pages. September: Sear Bliss starts working on new songs. November: A new song, entitled "In The Shadow Of Another World" is recorded (Nautilus Studio, Sopron. Engineered by András Boda) for the CD version of "The Pagan Winter". December: The song "Aeons Of Desolation" appears on the Extreme Rock´N´Roll Series I. compilation CD, released by Mascot Records.
1997 February: "The Pagan Winter" is released on CD together with the song "In The Shadow Of Another World", as a bonus track. February/March: Sear Bliss tours Europe together with Marduk and Tsatthoggua. March: Zoltán Csejtei is asked to leave Sear Bliss. Shortly after Csaba Csejtei follows him. April: Winter quits. May: Zoltán Schönberger (drums) and Viktor Scheer (guitars) joins Sear Bliss. Gergely Szücs takes over the keyboards again. The work on the songs of ´The Haunting´ begins. August: "The Haunting" is recorded (Beaufort Studio, Holland. Engineered by Han Swagerman and Viktor Scheer) September: "The Haunting" is mixed without the band. The result is disappointing so new mixes are done shortly after.
1998 February: "The Haunting" is released. Gigs follow later. March: Sear Bliss gets an oppotunity for a three-week-long European tour with Ancient in May but has to cancel it due to studies commitments. December: Sear Bliss celebrates its 5th anniversary with an enormous gig in Budapest.
1999 March: Sear Bliss leaves Mascot Records. Shortly after, the band records four new songs for promotional purposes (engineered by Viktor Scheer). July: Sear Bliss plays a gig together with Tormentor in Budapest. This was called the Tormentor Reunion gig. August: Viktor Scheer is asked to leave Sear Bliss. September: Gergely Szücs and János Barbarics quit Sear Bliss due to other commitments. November/December: András Nagy takes over the guitar. Shortly after, András Horváth P. joins Sear Bliss on guitar. Keyboard-players Attila Török (Amon Hen) and later Péter Bokros and trumpet-player Róbert Pintér help Sear Bliss as session musicians. Sear Bliss starts negotiating with a couple of labels.
2000 February: Sear Bliss records two new songs (Home Studio, Szombathely. Engineered by Bertalan Domby). April: István Neubrandt joins Sear Bliss on guitar. Summer: Sear Bliss does a small European tour. The band signs to Nephilim Records for one album. András Nagy is asked to write the lyrics and do the vocals for Olivér Ziskó´s project called Cavum (Olivér plays the drums there). This demo is recorded in Home Studio (engineered by Bertalan Domby). Cavum plays experimental, progressive metal with András Nagy´s black metal vocals and cosmic lyrics. November/December: "Grand Destiny" is recorded. Zoltán Pál joins Sear Bliss as trombone-player.
2001 February: András Horváth P. is asked to leave Sear Bliss. Krisztián Varga helps the band as session guitar player on stage. April: "Grand Destiny" is released. András Nagy writes music together with Winter and Zoltán Csejtei for Winter´s project called Forest Silence. May/June: Forest Silence´s three-song promo is recorded (Home Studio, engineered by Bertalan Domby). András Nagy plays the guitar. Forest Silence plays old school but slow black metal with majestic keyboards. June: The song "Arx Idolatriae" appears on Ablaze Magazine´s compilation CD. The director of the Illyés Gyula Theater asks Sear Bliss to co-operate in John Gay´s "The Beggar´s Opera". One month long, very intense rehearsal starts with the theatrical company. Ziskó Olivér joins Sear Bliss. Summer: The live performance of the play ("The Beggar´s Opera-Metal Ballad") begins in Hungary. August: Csaba Csejtei rejoins Sear Bliss. Intense work on the songs for "Forsaken Symphony" begins. November: Sear Bliss signs a deal with Red Stream, Inc. for three albums.
2002 March/April: "Forsaken Symphony" is recorded. April: Red Stream, Inc. re-releases "Grand Destiny". Sear Bliss, together with the Illyés Gyula Theatrical Company performs "The Beggar´s Opera" in Budapest´s most famous Theater Thália with great success. October: Red Stream releases "Forsaken Symphony". Sear Bliss does a successful small European tour together with Skyforger, Grief Of Emerald, Obtest, Bestial Mockery.
