The duo put out a number of demo tapes in 1988–1990 until they were finally signed to the now defunct Celtic Circle Productions (C.C.P.)
recording label and released their first full-length CD album
Brainstorming in December 1992.
Brainstorming was followed up by the
Blood in Face EP, which featured remixes from the album with additional new material. Their music consists of gloomy synthesizers mixed with abrasive dance-beats, overlaid with distorted vocals and the occasional audio sample taken from various horror films. The musical result is a style akin to
Skinny Puppy, that has inspired many other groups in the electro-industrial and
gothic genres. In
1994 yelworC unexpectedly split up, with Büttner heading off to form the more experimental sounding
amGod ("dogma" backwards) and cutting one album
Half Rotten and Decayed under the C.C.P. label. Schiffmann fought and successfully kept the rights to use the name
yelworC. In 2004 Schiffmann released a new studio album entitled
Trinity; the first release from yelworC in over ten years and the first of planned trilogy of albums. The album, containing some material composed during the late 1990s, is based on
Dante's journey through
Hell as told in the first part of
The Divine Comedy,
Inferno. It features a guest appearance by Dennis Ostermann of
In Strict Confidence on the song
Vexilla Regis Inferni. The second in the planned album trilogy,
Icolation, was released in October 2007. It continued the concept of
Trinity, using themes from the second part of
The Divine Comedy,
Purgatorio.
Trinity,
Icolation, and the
Eclosion EP were released jointly through Schiffmann's Baal Records label with distribution through Dennis Ostermann's Minuswelt label, the latter of which was initially a vehicle for In Strict Confidence releases, but has since expanded. Schiffmann and Ostermann met during the first run of yelworC in the 1990s, with their continuing contact leading to the label collaboration and ongoing artistic support. In 2023, GH Records released limited vinyl reissues of four original yelworC releases:
Dis-Cover and Con-Trol,
Brainstorming,
Flash, Wards, and Incubation, and
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