Veterans of Portland's independent rock scene, the band combined dark and lovelorn themes with punk and country music influences into a stripped-down sound.

A U.S. filmmaking team consisting of Kate Fix and Jason Summers produced a 2004 documentary, Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story, which played in independent theaters in the U.S. and New Zealand and at the Melbourne International Film Fest, and was later released on DVD in fall 2006.

The Tombstone label also provided cheap mastering and duplication for other bands, serving more as a co-operative than a promotional vehicle.

Pierced Arrows played their first show on May 18, 2007, at the Ash Street Saloon in Portland with the reformed Poison Idea.

[4] Toody is known to play a late-1960s semi-hollow Vox teardrop bass guitar,[5] due to its shorter-scale length and ease of use.