Their manager was Eric Burton and for a while Lacrimosa singer and songwriter Tilo Wolff Cinema Bizarre has sold more than 1.5 million records worldwide.

Their debut single "Lovesongs (They Kill Me)" was released on 14 September 2007, two weeks after their first live performance in the German music show The Dome.

The Norddeutscher Rundfunk (North German television broadcast) nominated the band for the national final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

No Angels and Carolin Fortenbacher, made it into the second election round of the final, leaving Cinema Bizarre behind.

However, the song leaked early online and the album release date was pushed back from May to 21 August.

On 21 January 2010 the band announced via MySpace that they were taking a break, as they felt that it was "time to start something new.

"[4] Strify started going by the name Jack Strif and released a new version of their song "Blasphemy" as a featured artist with French DJ Junior Caldera in June 2011.

[7] On 11 November 2011, Yu Phoenix (guitarist) released a new single on iTunes named "Moonflower" which features J'Lostein.

Phoenix released that he was starting a new project entitled Everyze with singer David Baßin from the metal band Victorius.