They have released six albums: 2005's Rest in Sleaze, 2007's The Unattractive Revolution, 2010's Generation Wild, 2013's The Savage Playground, 2019's Rust, and 2022's Automaton.

On 20 January 2006, vocalist Dave Lepard committed suicide at the age of 25, after a bout of depression during which he hid from family and friends.

The band consisted of four people and now one of them has left us.Several months later, on 2 April, they decided to start the band up again after getting support from the Lepard family and fans all over the world, they announced the following statement via their website: We feel that we want to carry on the Crashdïet legacy, which will keep Dave's spirit alive for a long long time..

They officially released their entire debut live performance (on the Rest in Sleaze Festival in February) with Olliver via their website as a free download.

In 2009 the band announced their new lead singer, Simon Cruz and played their first show with him on the Sweden Rock Cruise in October.

The title track was released as the first single on 28 February 2010, and its music video was banned by MTV due to obscene images.

In September they were the opening act for Ozzy Osbourne in Globen, Sweden, and in October, the band played in front of 50,000 people at the SWU Festival in Brazil.

On 24 March 2011, Crashdiet launched the European "Dark Decadence Tour" with Hardcore Superstar and the 69 Eyes that ended on April.

[11] In February 2023, also bassist Peter London announced to take a break from live duties, due to a burnout.