[2] In 2018,[3] after the band disbanded, Matlock approached Way, who by then had taken a job modelling in Tokyo, and bonded with her over a shared love of nu metal acts such as Limp Bizkit.
[4] At first the pair began writing pop punk songs[4] and recorded an EP in that style called Sadgasm, which they opted not to release.
[5] Following an incident at a party in London that both had attended at Way's suggestion, in which Matlock had managed to wake up an unenthusiastic crowd by playing Limp Bizkit and then Linkin Park,[6] the band diversified into a combination of rap and nu metal.
[8] They released their debut single, "Post Modern Rhapsody", in August 2019, before playing their first live performance a few weeks later[9] at a toilet venue.
[39] The following month, Rolling Stone reported that Wargasm would be joining Limp Bizkit on their North American "Still Sucks" tour.
[47] The month after that, they featured on Enter Shikari's "The Void Stares Back",[48] which won Best Single at the 2023 Heavy Music Awards.
[57] That December, they released a new video for "Super Fiend" featuring tour footage,[58] followed by a cover of the Girls Aloud song "Something Kinda Ooooh" for Amazon Music.
interview to blame the discontinuous manner in which it was produced and "labels and distributors, and all these people who don’t seem to be able to do their fucking job anymore".
[62] In September, they released "Bang Ya Head", which was written about Matlock's experience of struggling to live on a bar salary.
[68] In May 2024, the band featured on Crossfaith's "God Speed", an ode to hedonism,[69] followed by "Hedonist (Recharged)", an track from Bad Omens' Concrete Jungle [The OST], an expansion pack to their earlier album The Death of Peace of Mind.
[70] The following month, they appeared on Scene Queen's "Girls Gone Wild", a track about misogynistic double standards from her album Hot Singles in Your Area.
[57] The month after, they supported Korn at Gunnersbury Park alongside Loathe and Spiritbox[73] and announced their Club Shit tour of intimate venues for October and November.
[82] In June 2020, Revolver described the band's works as "a particularly now mash-up of nu-metal, punk, electronic music, pop, hip-hop and anything else they damn please" [sic],[83] and in September 2020, that publication's Emma Madden described the band's sound as "beefcake nu-metal [...] spike[d] with more lighthearted pop and electronic elements [and] a riot grrrl ethos and charge".
[84] In January 2021, Alternative Press writer Giedrė Matulaitytė described their music as an "eclectic blend of punk/riot grrrl attitude, hardcore energy, grunge pessimism and murky nü-metal groove" best enjoyed while "sipping on some rich blood"[85] and Jack Saunders described them as post-hardcore and a combination of the Prodigy and Slipknot.
[15] In October 2023, Gregory Adams of Revolver described their "musical bedrock" as "hard-blitzed house beats and nu-metal swagger".
[3] Reviewing their Download Pilot set, Clash observed "screaming vocals, stadium beats and psychedelic electronic sounds that merge with a punk attitude and a guitar grounding"[86] and NME writer Ali Shutler described what he saw as "cyberpunk".
[87] The latter publication's Kyann-Sian Williams wrote of their performance at ALT+LDN that the pair "infuse the raw grit of screamo with Way’s punk vocals".
[39] James Christopher Monger of AllMusic wrote that the "electro-punk duo" evoked "Poppy by way of Limp Bizkit" with their "kinetic blend of nu-metal, industrial rock, post-hardcore, EDM, and hip-hop".