The original members were vocalist Brock Lindow, guitarists Steve Holt and Ryan Brownell, bassist JD Stuart, and drummer Thomas Noonan.

JD Stuart played in Grin, Brock Lindow in Hessian, and Steve Holt and Ryan Brownell in Broke.

Monsen's protégé Thomas Noonan played the drums at this show and the musicians decided that they were an excellent match.

At that time the band's local popularity was rising quickly and the tape became a rarity, with the entire printing sold or given away as promos.

In 1999, they released a four-song demo that, through their friends in Skinlab, ended up in the hands of Monte Conner, A&R rep at Roadrunner Records.

[7] In an interview with AntiHero Magazine, vocalist Brock Lindow states that the demo was produced by Steev Esquivel and Scott Sargeant of Skinlab.

They toured intensely behind the record (playing shows with acts like Killswitch Engage and Poison the Well) through December, taking two months off before beginning the work on their next album.

36 Crazyfists entered the studio with producer Sal Villanueva (who had worked with Thursday and Taking Back Sunday) in October 2005 to commence recording their third album Rest Inside the Flames, which was released across Europe on June 12, 2006.

[9] The band started an extensive UK tour, supported by Twelve Tribes and Your Rigamortus on April 1, 2007, where they played at 26 venues across the country.

Shortly after the Mayhem tour, bassist Mick Whitney left the band and was replaced by Brett Makowski.

36 Crazyfists filmed their show of January 9, 2009, in Anchorage, Alaska, for their first live DVD, Underneath a Northern Sky, released in October 2009.

The album Collisions and Castaways was released in the US by Ferret Music on July 27, 2010 and a day earlier in the rest of the world via Roadrunner Records.

Production duties for the album were handled by band guitarist Steve Holt and sport mixing from Andy Sneap.

[12] During the UK tour at the end of 2013, the band debuted the title track for their seventh studio album, Time and Trauma.

[15] Lindow has since formed a new band called Paradise Slaves, who released their debut single "A Fever To Defeat" on October 30, 2024.