It was released in May 1984 on singer Glenn Danzig's label, Plan 9 Records, seven months after the band's breakup.

Victor W. Valdivia of AllMusic reviewed "Die, Die My Darling" positively, and wrote that the title song "ranks among the best the Misfits ever recorded -- pure, brutal energy unleashed.

The stomp that launches the song out the gate carries through the entire running time, building up to stomp even harder before crumbling to chaos at the end", and calling it "the perfect sendoff for one of the best punk bands of all time".

"Die, Die My Darling" was covered by the American heavy metal band Metallica, who had previously covered the Misfits songs "Last Caress" and "Green Hell" in 1987, for their 1998 cover album Garage Inc. Metallica's version was released as a single in Australia, Germany, Japan, and Mexico, and reached number 26 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States.

[3] Misfits guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein praised the cover version saying that "I couldn't believe it when I first heard it!