[note 1] The Living Tombstone was founded by Landau in 2011 as both a YouTube channel and a musical project.

[3][5] Five years after forming The Living Tombstone, Landau moved to the United States where he met vocalist Sam Haft.

[4] Both Landau and Haft worked on the worldbuilding for The Living Tombstone, including the characters, story, and lore surrounding the group's music and videos.

[3] The Living Tombstone's content consists of both original music and homages to various video games and pop culture media, several of which became popular online.

Rolling Stone credited the band with launching a subgenre of Five Nights at Freddy's themed music inspired by hyper-pop.

[11] In 2018, The Living Tombstone's song based on the hero shooter game Overwatch, No Mercy, went viral on social media.

[18][19] In 2012, The Living Tombstone remixed the song "Discord" from the Eurobeat producer Odyssey/Eurobeat Brony, which accumulated over 40 million views on YouTube and was used in over 500,000 videos on TikTok in 2021.

[16] In 2013, Landau made a remix of Andrew Gold's 1996 song "Spooky, Scary Skeletons," which garnered over 90 million views on YouTube.

[3][4][12] Landau has also stated that genres such as complextro, dubstep and drum 'n bass has inspired the band's musical style.