The roots of Premature Ejaculation stretch as far back as 1981, when while on hiatus from Christian Death, Rozz Williams and Ron Athey began experimenting with tape loops and noise. From the onset, live events were performance art presentations that often left the audience disgusted and horrified (such as on one occasion eating and regurgitating a dead cat on stage). While the intent was to shock and throw out the rules of convention - it wasn't long before venues refused to book Premature Ejaculation.

After Rozz shelved Christian Death in 1985, he returned to the project, and continued to pursue tape manipulation and manufacturing layers of noise. He teamed himself with Chuck Collison and soon began releasing material such as Happiest Place on Earth: Body of a Crow through the independent label, Happiest Tapes on Earth, and eventually again performing live shows.

It should be taken into account that the majority of the releases by Premature Ejaculation are thanks to the work of Chuck Collison. The music was created using a system of 'hand-over', sending work back and forth through tapes in the mail and communication via phone calls. While Rozz Williams had the creative reigns of the band at this time, his actual work on the music itself is far over-credited.

Williams later resurrected the band with three new members in 1987, two years after his departure from Christian Death. The band remained sporadically active both live and in the studio up until Williams' suicide in April of 1998. Their final recording was released posthumously. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.