In the year 2007 Totleben began writing his first songs. His musical interest were bound to his inspirational roots. He had combined the coldness and anger of black metal with elements of classical music to get an aggressive and cinematic feeling for his music. But his music should not just be instrumental, there for contacting his good friend Narbengrund. Since Narbengrund's talent for writing lyrics were just perfect for the ideas Totleben had in mind, Narbengrund was made a founding member of black metal act "Totengeflüster" (Whisper Of The Dead).
The main goal for Totleben and Narbengrund was to create a coherent and sophisticated piece of art. In this time Totleben was also creating artworks and illustrations for bands such as Necronomicon (Canada), Imperium Dekadenz (Ger), Lyfthrasyr (Ger) and Unlight (Ger). Through his close contact to the bands he met Schattendorn, an already active death metal drummer. Schattendorn told Totleben about his interest in playing in his black metal project. So Schattendorn had by this time become a prominent session and live drummer of Totengeflüster. In winter 2012 they released their first album, which was entitled “Vom Seelensterben”. It was a conceptual album, which thematised depending on the point of view, either the cruelty and horrors of night or of the human being. The resonation according to this work was excellent and since Totengeflüster felt the eager urge to present their darkness upon stages all around the world, they decided to take a new path and incorporated two new members into their rows…
These both listened to the names Rorschach, who sold his soul to the bass guitar, and Frevelsaat, the second six stringed warlock of the quintet. From this time on a new era started for Totengeflüster, because they were able to perform their art away from “sound carriers”. Since the firstling appealed especially well in the United Kingdom, they decided, despite all the organizational problems this idea contained, to play their debut concert in England. In August the twenty-third the played their debut concert in Bromsgrove, near Birmingham at the Beermageddon festival. And on the forth of October Totengeflüster conquered native stages for the first time, as they draped the 10nth anniversary of Tübingens Epplehaus in total darkness… and this was just the beginning…