Meanwhile, Midnight was slated to work with guitarist Luca Turilli from Rhapsody. He later started to work on a demo tape called "Songs from the Attic". He asked his fans via Blabbermouth if they will be willing to buy mp3 instead of a CD. The demo was delayed two times. Once because of post-9/11 power outage. The title was later changed to "M" and was finally released as an EP on November 30. While working on the EP Midnight had joined forces with former Atheist guitarist Rand Burkey. They started composing material for an album, under the projected title of "Cookooflower". A demo from Cookooflower was going to be included in the EP. He would later drop "Cookooflower" project and the inclusion of the two songs with Burkey after failing to agree in the contract. Burkey uploaded one song to MP3.com for promotional purposes.