[2] Rogue served as songwriter and lead vocalist, and also played drum machines and electric violins; Flanagan also played drum machines and provided sound synthesis and computer programming; and Curry also provided computer programming, as well as equipment and guitar work.

Determined not to be dragged down by the comings and goings of other members, Rogue learned to use synthesizers and computers himself to maintain Crüxshadows' musical direction.

During this period the Crüxshadows signed an ill-fated deal with New England–based Mere Mortal Records to release The Mystery of the Whisper.

A few months prior to putting out the disc, Mere Mortal was forced out of business due in part to its acquisition of a debt-heavy distributor.

[7] By this time "Marilyn My Bitterness" and "Monsters" had become staples on the dance floors of a re-invigorated American Gothic-Industrial club scene.

The band's song "Eurydice" occupied the top position in the category of New Wave for several months on the charts of digital music pioneer MP3.com.

In 2000, the band contributed a song titled "Deception" to Music from the Succubus Club, released by Dancing Ferret as an accompanying soundtrack album for the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade.

The Crüxshadows released a remix disc in 2004 based on the material on the Ethernaut CD called Fortress in Flames and followed it up with yet another tour of the United States and Europe.

In 2005, the release of Shadowbox, a live DVD/CD-EP, followed the Crüxshadows on their tour of Europe and featured their headlining performance at the Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig Germany.

Its release coincided with the band's performance at 2006's Dragon Con, where the Rogue gave credit to the support of their SciFi fans in attendance for helping them reach the No.

In 2008, the EP Immortal was released in July on Rogue's birthday, and became the band's third consecutive single to chart on Billboard, coming in at No.

In 2009, Valerie Gentile was briefly replaced by Cassandra Luger[15] before guitarist Mike Perez took over guitar duties in early 2010[16] The Crüxshadows would continue to play to bigger audiences in Europe, but 2009 marked the last tour in the United States until several US mini-tours in 2018 and 2019.

During 2010–2011, the Crüxshadows performed a tour of Europe, but took a year off in 2011 as frontman Rogue and his wife Jessica gave birth to their daughter, Anmi.

Dancing Ferret and the Crüxshadows released a joint statement notifying the public that the long-time allies were going separate ways.

During 2014 to 2018, Rogue teamed up with Fansation in Germany, a label that released its acts through its partnership with Universal Music, and began working with notable German producer Henning Verlage.

[20][21][22] In 2017, following its lead single "Helios", the Crüxshadows released a new concept album called Astromythology, which tells the story of an astronaut escaping the destruction of the solar system.

The album became the Crüxshadows' most popular German release and its first two singles reached number one on the DAC as well as top 10 showings in the mainstream charts.

Despite the success of Astromythology, in the wake of declining record sales throughout the industry, the administrators of Fansation and its related companies returned the Crüxshadows rights to Rogue and parted ways.

In 1997, they signed a deal with Nesak International/Kado Records to give Telemetry of a Fallen Angel a full commercial release, as well as an option for a future album.

After The Immortal Tour, from 2008 to 2018, the band played only a very limited number of shows North America, however they have performed annually without fail in Atlanta at DragonCon from 1997-2019, only pausing for the Coronavirus outbreak, and played only the occasional appearance or festival in the United States otherwise, until 2018, when they began performing shows in support of their Astromythology Album.

Much of the Crüxshadows' music is based on Greek and Egyptian mythology, including symbolic references to a number of mythical figures,[36] and many of their lyrics deal with the concept of God.