Dog Fashion Disco is an American heavy metal band from Rockville, Maryland, originally active from 1995 to 2007, then disbanding before reuniting in October 2013.

Dog Fashion Disco, or DFD as many fans refer to them as, was formed in 1995 by Todd Smith, Greg Combs, and John Ensminger, who all went to high school together.

With the release of their major label debut Anarchists of Good Taste in 2001 on Spitfire Records, DFD saw much wider popularity and distribution of their music than ever before, and recorded a track with System of a Down front-man, Serj Tankian providing vocals for the track "Mushroom Cult" on the Anarchists album.

[10] The band shot their first music video for the song "Leper Friend," and embarked on their first UK tour in support of the album.

The spot of lead guitar was temporarily filled by Jason Stevens for the Committed tour, during which bassist and original member Stephen Mears left the band to join the Navy.

After a short period of off-time in the first half of 2005 (in which The Alter Boys sole album was made and released), Oliver quit the band.

On April 4, 2006, they released their sixth studio album, Adultery, which featured the return of original drummer John Ensminger.

[14] The band toured in support for the release of Adultery along with Tub Ring during the summer of 2006, in which keyboardist Tim Swanson temporarily replaced Jeff Siegel.

[15] They performed their farewell show at the Sonar Lounge in Baltimore, Maryland on January 13, 2007, to a capacity crowd, with fans coming from as far away as the United Kingdom.

Other past band members including Sennan Quigley and Mike "Ollie" Oliver attended to show support for their former musical family.

Attendees of the reunion shows with VIP passes were provided with a code that allowed them to download an acoustic version of their song "Sweet Insanity."

"warm up" show at The Ottobar on May 30, which included drummers John Ensminger and Scott Radway, as well as Jasan Stepp.

On October 10, 2013, a status update via the Polkadot Cadaver Facebook page confirmed that Dog Fashion Disco is officially back together as a band.

They also announced three nights in London, England, for September 2014, and the success of those sell-out dates prompted a UK tour with Psychostick in 2015.

The band began releasing re-recorded versions of their earlier albums, in order to reclaim the rights to the music from their former record labels.

Moonlight City Drive, a novelization of DFD's 2006 concept album Adultery, was written by Brian Paone and published in November 2017.

Combining such potentially dissimilar genres as alternative metal, funk and cabaret, the collective made a name for themselves with their unique crossover style.

[20] AllMusic said that "Dog Fashion Disco, with their crunching guitar chords, swirling lead guitars, warped organs, and evil vocals, à la any thrash metal band U.S.A., sound like the musical equivalent of death" and that on the album Anarchists of Good Taste, the band "seems to be in a contest to see whether they can outwarp the likes of Marilyn Manson".

In 2012, ex-guitarist Greg Combs's new band Celebrity Sex Scandal released their first single "Ode to Katy Perry".