Communic, a Norwegian progressive metal band from Mandal/Kristiansand, was founded in 2003 by Oddleif Stensland and Tor Atle Andersen, later joined by bassist Erik Mortensen. In January 2004, they recorded their first demo tracks at dUb Studios in Norway. The Conspiracy in Mind demo was selected as Demo of the Month by Rock Hard magazine in 2004. Later that year, they signed with Nuclear Blast and released their debut album, Conspiracy In Mind, in 2005. Their subsequent albums include Waves of Visual Decay (2006), Payment of Existence (2008), The Bottom Deep (2011), and Hiding from the World (2020).
