2005
Already in winter 2005, the guitar player and songwriter Berthold Miller had the idea to found a band on his own. These days, he played the rhythm guitar in a rock band from his home town Tettnang called The Light Muffins. As he was a great fan of finnish Heavy Metal-Bands like Nightwish, Sentenced and Stratovarius, he wanted to do this kind of music on his own. His vision was to combine symphonic metal and gothic metal with male vocals. The lyrics should be very melancholic and reflective.

Soon the ideas for the first songs (A sun for you, Legacy of hope, Beyond the waves) arose.

In summer 2005 Berthold left The Light Muffins because of musical and personal problems. He intensely started writing songs and increasing his skills on the instrument to make this project possible. At the same time he began to look for musicians to complete the band. However his search turned out to be very hard and long.

2006
In spring 2006, keyboard player Enrico Hahn answered to an advertisement Berthold had put on the internet. His band Soilent just had parted from their singer. So their activities were very limited and Enrico was looking for new possibilities to make music. Berthold and Enrico met a few times and in spite of the big difference in age, they harmonized very well. Therefore they began to arrange the keyboards for Beyond the waves and Legacy of hope. They worked together nicely and the first demo versions of both songs were developed at that time.

In the end of summer Berthold got a telephone call from a guy called Sali Hasan. Sali was guitar player and singer in the very ambitious cover band Crash. Also Sali's side project called New Turn Red just had split up and so he was looking for new challenges. Berthold and Sali met a few times and soon it became clear that they had the same faves. Sali had the idea to ask the bass player from Crash Bernd Ummenhofer to play in the project, too. He accepted and the band achieved in getting a very solid and experienced bass player. Now only a drummer was still missing.

The four guys arranged the complete versions of Legacy of hope and Beyond the waves and did not give up in searching a suitable man for the drums. Unfortunately there were many cancellations and even after a few guys had been in the rehearsals they hadn't found the appropriate man yet. But then Sali had the idea to call Peter Zimre, who once worked for his company in holidays. Peter came, saw, and stayed.

2007
After a long period of thinking and a huge amount of rejected suggestions the name of the band was found: Mooncry.

During the year 2007 the five guys worked hard. They arranged and practiced songs like hell. The homepage of the band was created and implemented in this time as well. It was designed by Berhold himself and the technical implementation was realized by Berthold and the "sixth band member" and band technician Christoph Tietz.

For the first two weeks of november, a studio for the recordings of the first album was booked. The Band went for the Mediabase Studio in Geretsried near Munich. The producer was Jürgen Plangger, who is singer in the band A_Life [Divided] and guitar player in the band Eisbrecher.

The Album will be called Legacy of hope and was recorded, mixed and mastered in the period from Oct 29th - Nov 11th. It will contain seven songs and will be released on Jan 1st 2008. The first live-gigs are planned during 2008.