Founded in 1999 by former Broken Hope members Brian Griffin (guitar), Sean Baxter (guitar/violin), and Larry DeMumbrum (drums), Em Sinfonia started out as doom-death-goth musical collective featuring numerous alumni of the Chicago heavy metal scene, including vocalist Paul Kuhr (Novembers Doom, Subterranean Masquerade) and bassist Mary Bielich (Penance, Novembers Doom). And that's not all: 1999's debut mini-LP, In Mourning's Symphony, also featured female vocalist April Domet (who had previously worked as a blues singer), guitarist Rob Stephenson, and keyboardist Rick Alexande...