 The band was signed by Gerard Cosloy to the New York-based Homestead Records, home at the time to acts such as Sonic Youth, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Dinosaur Jr.The band performed with contemporaries such as Sonic Youth, along with Nirvana, Jesus and Mary Chain, the Replacements, Smashing Pumpkins, the Gun Club, Leaving Trains and Redd Kross.Death of Samantha released three albums and an EP on Homestead from 1986 to 1990.