American Death/Grind unit Macabre was formed in 1985 by Nefarious (bass, vocals), Corporate Death (guitar, vocals) and Dennis the Menace (drums) in Chicago, Illinois. In 1987, they released a mini-LP titled Grim Reality on their own label Decomposed Records and the following year they released their first and only demo Shitlist. Was later re-released in 1990 as a 7 EP on Gore Records. In 1989, they released their first LP named Gloom on Vinyl Solution and re-released Grim Reality on vinyl with two bonus tracks. In 1990, Vinyl Solution released Gloom on Cd with the Grim Reality mini-LP. In 1992, Macabre signs to Nuclear Blast and in September they enter Universal Studios for the recording of their second full-length Sinister Slaughter, which is released in 1993. The EP Nightstalker was released earlier on Relapse Records in 1993. In 1995, they released the Behind The Wall Of Sleep EP, that was their second and last release on Nuclear Blast. In 1998, Macabre re-released a re-mastered version of Gloom with a new cover on Decomposed Records and later they licensed it to Hammerheart Records. The label became the new way they released all their records after the Behind The Wall Of Sleep EP. In 1999, marked the first time to hear brand new material of Macabre since 1995 on their new EP Unabomber, which featured three new songs and four songs from Grim Reality and Gloom. They also recorded their third full-length album Dahmer that was released in the year 2000.
Between the release of Dahmer and 2003, Macabre had done a lot of touring and also released EP's. The first one was a split with Capitalist Casualties and featured two songs from the Gloom LP and the other one is the Drill Bit Lobotomy EP, that's first only pressed in 200 copies and sold on one of their US tours. It was later re-released with new packaging. Corporate Death and Nefarious also released an acoustic mini-cd as Macabre Minstrels entitled Morbid Campfire Songs on Decomposed Records. In 2003, Macabre's fourth album hit the stores entitled Murder Metal and is followed by heavy touring. In the year 2004, Season Of Mist Records, re-released the Macabre Minstrels' Morbid Campfire Songs mini-cd and it marked a first time release for the European market.

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