Derakh had previously gained some fame in the 1980s metal band Rough Cutt, and Hewitt was a former member of Electric Love Hogs.

[citation needed] The album sold almost two million copies[4] and produced two singles: a cover of the New Order song "Blue Monday", and "Stitches".

Orgy made their live debut at EdgeFest, an annual radio show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1998.

They also appeared on the Family Values Tour with Korn, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, Incubus, and Rammstein.

Their second album, the science fiction-themed Vapor Transmission, was released in 2000, with "Fiction (Dreams in Digital)" and "Opticon" as singles.

[5] The band was a musical guest in the television series Charmed, performing "Opticon" in the episode "Sin Francisco".

[4][6] In late 2003, guitarists Shuck and Derakh formed a side project, Julien-K, as an outlet for electronic material they had come up with during the writing process for Orgy.

[4] Jay Gordon also remixed the Linkin Park track "Points of Authority" for their album Reanimation, where it was renamed "Pts.of.Athrty".

On October 25, 2010, Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh stated on the Julien-K blog: "As of Oct. 26th we will no longer be part of Orgy.

"[12] On October 30, 2010, Jay Gordon released a statement via his official Facebook profile stating that he still owns the Orgy name and wants to continue forth creating new material for the band.

[16][17] On February 23, 2014, the band announced through their official website that the new single "Wide Awake and Dead" will be available through iTunes and Amazon on March 18, 2014.

Originally, it was to be followed with another EP titled Entropy,[19] but Gordon later told Westword Magazine the band would instead release it as a full-length album,[20] that has yet to materialize.