They released one single and one album before the core members of the band (Valor Kand, Gitane DeMone and David Glass) joined Rozz Williams for a new version of Christian Death in 1983, and eventually continued with the Christian Death name after all the original members had left the group.
Aside from Kand, the main songwriter during this period was Cram Netod (Marc Doten), who later went on to perform with Double Naught Spy Car.
A subsequent ad in this paper yielded drummer Glass (aka David Parkinson), who introduced Kand to bassist Netod, who in turn introduced keyboardist Poli-Sci (Polly Klemmer).
After the release of the bands' 1982 debut album, Look at Yourself (1982),[3] on their own Nostradamus label, they began to receive radio airplay in California and notoriety in the Los Angeles press.
The band was offered a record deal with French label L'Invitation Au Suicide, whose president, Yann Farcy, persuaded the band to change their name from Pompeii 99 to Christian Death.