For more than twenty-two years, Ickben Einauslander, a professor of Science, had been studying the dead. His work had cost him his family, his career, and had completely consumed his life to a point of near insanity. Ickben believed that he could re-animate the dead. He sought out any means to achieve this goal, including murder and grave robbing. His research had given him the ability to restore the body and mind of a rotted corpse that is decades old, to a condition not unlike that of a fresh cadaver. However, the mind of the re-animated would not be the same as it once was; he could only recreate a few of a person's personality traits and interests in life, and all of this came with a price. These creatures had a ferocious thirst for the flesh of living humans. Fearing his own life, and his life's work, he developed a way to almost completely divert their need for flesh. Ickben found that he could nearly replace their voracious hunger by altering the brain to desire creative inspiration more than flesh. As much as he tried the need for flesh was still there and at times it is the only that will calm these undead monsters.

By the year 2002, Professor Einauslander had been very successful in a number of these re-animation experiments.  Only one problem remained, none of them were creative people in life, and therefore he could not expand their imaginative drive. One day while searching through old newspapers he found a tragic article from the year 1957 about four young men from a small Midwestern town by the name of Dead End. Auto mechanics by day and musicians by night, these four greasers had gotten into a bar fight which was to be settled with a drag race in a nearby quarry. Little did they know, this drag race would be their last. The four young men died that night when the rival gang smashed them and their dragster into the quarry wall.

Buried near each other, their graves remained undisturbed for more than 45 years. The professor had found his artists. These four greasers would be re-animated and turned into walking corpses that hardly crave flesh or brains, but instead have an unquenchable thirst for loud Rock n' Roll. The re-animation was a complete success with surprising results! These four undead hoodlums became incredible musicians within a few months time. Ickben, who fell in love with the music they had created, called his band of ghouls The Decomposed. They are his life's work and they are here to take over the world with their
punk rock of the living dead.