Chris Cheney, Scott Owen and Joe Piripitzi formed the Living End in 1994;[1] their debut release was Hellbound, an eight-track EP, in 1995.

[2] The group's first single, "From Here on In", was issued in 1996 from their second EP, It's for Your Own Good, which received airplay on Triple J, an Australian radio station.

[2] The band's breakthrough hit occurred in 1997 with "Second Solution / Prisoner of Society", a double A-side single/EP,[nb 1] which became the highest-selling Australian-made single of the 1990s.

White Noise is the group's highest-charting album on the Official New Zealand Music Chart, where it reached number 18.

The group's sixth studio album, The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating (2011), reached number three in Australia and was also certified gold there.