The band soon recorded a demo cassette and began playing at various venues in New York City, most notably at CBGB's which was home to many hardcore punk acts at the time.
The band entered the Normandy Sound studio in Warren, Rhode Island, with hardcore producer Tom Soares, who had previously been involved with recording Cro-Mags' Best Wishes and Gang Green's Older... Budweiser.
In the same year, Blackout Records released a New York hardcore compilation, Where the Wild Things Are, which contained two of Killing Time's tracks – "Backtrack" and "Brightside".
In 1992, a combination of a negative reception to Happy Hour and general problems of violence in the New York hardcore scene resulted in the band taking a hiatus.
Joey I, roadie and author of the biography on the band's official website, explained, "...the Hardcore scene itself was changing – becoming more violent and the music becoming secondary to the socializing and posing, they decided to call it quits".
They were replaced by Dave Franklin of the New Jersey hardcore band Vision on vocals and ex-Judge and Uppercut guitarist Lars Weiss on bass.
It was released in April 1997 and marked a return to the harder sound created on the Brightside album, but also a more melodic and intricate element with the addition of short guitar solos.
Early in the summer of 2006, the band tapped old friend and Uppercut guitarist Chris Skowronski to play bass and did some New York-area shows before leaving for a European tour in the fall.
In the winter of 2008, inspired by the overwhelming response during the Asian tour, the band discussed writing their first new material since 1996, using Drago's parents' garage as a studio.
In 2003, Carl Porcaro contributed some additional guitar work on a cover version of "Tell Tale" by New Jersey hardcore band Ensign on their album Love the Music, Hate the Kids.