Vienna based Paternoster was one of the few progressive rock bands from Austria aside from Eela Craig and Isaiah. They started with a freely improvised soundtrack to an experimental film, which was moderately successful on several film festivals. So a few people wondered, who made the music. A surprising offer from the major label CBS Austria followed. Led by the organist and singer Franz Wippel, guitarist Gerhard Walter, bassist Heimo Wisser and drummer Gerhart Walenta recorded their first and only LP in just two days on 9 and 10 March 1972 at the Quodlibet Studios in Vienna.

The result was an album with a gloomy mood, very original and underground. Anti-religious, cryptic and morbid, sometimes spacey, melancholic, with a heavy hammond organ and late '60s psychedelic fuzz lead guitar. Sadly, the album, featuring cover illustrations by Circus Roncalli founder Bernhard Paul, attracted little attention, barely 300 albums were sold. The quartet split up that very same year and quickly disappeared into obscurity. Over time, however, the self-titled album went on to become one of the most sought-after and expensive records in Austrian rock history.