The band is most well known for contributing several songs used as entrance music to various professional wrestlers, including Cody Rhodes, The Miz, Britt Baker and Matt Cardona.

Formed in 2002, Downstait came to the attention of the lead singer of Ra, Sahaj Ticotin, who offered to work with the group and produced their albums.

[1] Early in Downstait's history, the band contacted Stiller, a disc jockey at Fort Wayne radio station WBYR.

Stiller in turn reached out to Sahaj Ticotin, the lead singer of Ra, who listened to Downstait's music on Myspace and offered to work with them.

[1] Downstait later toured with Ra and Skid Row, and completed a full-length album in 2009, Separation Anxiety, which contained all of the tracks from their EP plus additional ones.

[4] Separation Anxiety was remastered the next year and rereleased as the self-titled album Downstait, released on Ticotin's Sahaja Music Records.

"[5] Arata expressed some frustration with how WWE helped their exposure, stating, "The tricky part is that people hear us, but they don't know who we are, unless they do a little research for themselves.

[6][13] Downstait have continued to write and perform entrance music for wrestlers, including for Dustin Rhodes, Britt Baker, Buddy Matthews, Chelsea Green, and Matt Cardona.