Common Grave was founded in the summer 1999 by EM (guitars), MZ (guitars) and XXVII (vocals). They started to play as a Brutal Death band and immediately began to compose their own songs. In 2003, with Suffer replacing EM at guitars, the band chose to leave all the Brutal Death songs written and played until that moment behind, and to continue to play Black Metal exclusively.

Together with the composition of the new songs, also the live activity was going on and it brought the band to play in several successful events in the north-east of Italy, together with many other bands, like Handful of Hate, Natron, Ancient, Absentia Lunae, Tundra, Silva Nigra and Inferno amongst the others.

In January 2005 a promo entitled “Memories”, containing two songs for a total duration of about 20 minutes, was recorded in prospect of the following full-length.

In April/May 2007, Common Grave recorded their first full-length album, “Il Male di Vivere”. In June 2007 a single track promo has been published, containing the rough mix of the title track of the album “Il Male di Vivere”.