Since 1998, Cope had developed a parallel reputation as a serious antiquarian. This resulted in his 2001 album "Discover Odin" being a limited-edition tie-in with a talk he had given at the British Museum, featuring a mixture of spoken-word tracks exploring Nordic mythology and various musical tracks including a Cope setting of the epic Norse poem "Hávamál". In the same year Head Heritage released the first two Brain Donor singles ("She Saw Me Coming" and "Get Off Your Pretty Face", followed by the début Brain Donor album "Love Peace & Fuck". Cope, Doggen and a returning Thighpaulsandra also teamed up as the drummer-less psychedelic/meditational heavy metal group L.A.M.F. who released the "Ambient Metal" album the same year. Brain Donor's "Get Back on It" single followed in 2002, as did the third album in Cope's "Rite" series, "Rite Now".