Originally named Rollercoaster, Kerbdog were formed in 1991 by Cormac Battle (vocals/guitar), Colin Fennelly (bass guitar), and Darragh Butler (drums) while attending St Kieran's College.

[citation needed] Their early live shows primarily consisted of cover versions of songs by Sonic Youth, Loop, Spacemen 3, and Fudge Tunnel.

[citation needed] Rollercoaster spent a year in London, but they failed to win much interest from the UK music press and returned to Kilkenny.

[citation needed] Billy Dalton joined the band in early 1992 as a second guitarist and his fondness for heavy metal acts Metallica and Slayer complimented Battle's fascination with the British and New York City underground.

A winter support slot on The Almighty's UK tour brought added exposure, promoted by the band's second single, "End of Green".

I think it was about a hundred grand Sterling put on the table for the album [in 1997] but I presume the record label [Mercury], maybe wrote it off and perhaps there is a fifteen year [legal] thing or something that it's available now again."

Darragh Butler – Irishdrummers.com, 2012 The band continued without a record label for a few months but eventually disbanded in late 1997 and played their final gigs at the Krazy Horse, Cork over Christmas 1997 and at the Mean Fiddler, Dublin on 7 March 1998.

[citation needed] August 2008 saw the group play the Camden Barfly in London as part of the Kerrang "Week of Rock", and a show at the "Pumpalooza" in Kilkenny in aid of the Susie Long Hospice Foundation.

[citation needed] Dalton rejoined them on stage for seven songs during the Pumphouse gig, marking the first time since 1995 that the four-piece had played together.

[citation needed] That same day, Kerbdog recorded a studio session for Today FM radio in Dublin, first broadcast on the Paul McLoone show in November 2014.

[citation needed] In an interview with Irish Metal Archive in 2015, Dalton confirmed that the band had plans to release an EP, for which they had three new songs waiting to be recorded.