In the winter of 1990 Morthond was created as a one-man project of Benny Nilsen. The idea was to make visual music without any moving pictures with coincidence as a main inspiration. (from Karmanik Collection)
In 1992 the name Morthond was changed to Morthound; the first release under the new name was Spindrift.
Morthound was disbanded in 1996 and Nilsen started out with his new project Hazard, but the project was active again in 2014.