In 1989, at the age of 15, Sascha Tayefeh and Andreas Rudel formed a dark-wave/gothic band called Ghosting. The band has seen a break in between 1996-1999, and ultimately dissolved in 2003 during the recording of their next album after Disguised in Black. Sascha now has a PhD in natural science, and works as an IT service manager and project manager at Das Bundesamt für Strassen. Andreas Rudel is now a network engineer, and works as a project engineer at Infradata.

Brave New World is the twelfth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 29 May 2000. It was their first studio release since the return of longtime lead singer Bruce Dickinson (who left in 1993) and guitarist Adrian Smith (who left in 1990) in 1999, as well as the band's first studio recording as a six-piece, as Janick Gers, who replaced Smith in 1990, remained with the band.