The Killed By Death series was started by Swedish record collector Johan Kugelberg with the first volume's release in 1988, its name borrowed from a song by the British band Motörhead. Inspired by Tim Warren's Back from the Grave series, Kugelberg was encouraged by Warren to start his own series documenting early punk rock. Among the more obscure tracks by non-mainstream bands was the entire first EP by the Beastie Boys who had since switched from punk to hip-hop. When this first KBD record came out, the Beasties were topping the charts with their album Licensed to Ill while their hardcore punk catalog was out-of-print and selling for large sums on the collectors market, prompting Kugelberg to write in his KBD liner notes, "What do you do when a record becomes filthy expensive? Stick it on a comp."

By the end of 1989 Kugelberg's Redrum Records' had released the first four volumes of Killed By Death, after which a fifth and sixth Killed By Death emerged in 1993, issued by an Australian record collector. Over 30 subsequent volumes of Killed By Death were released during the 1990s, all assembled by various anonymous compilers and released independently of one another. This resulted in the records' diversion from any strict numbering system as no one could predict where and when a particular volume of Killed By Death would hit the streets.      - Wikipedia

THE LEWD – Kill Yourself
DEFNICS – 51 Percent 
84 FLESH – Salted City 
THE PLUGZ – Mindless Contentment 
THE EAT – Doctor TV 
THE EAT – Kneecappin' 
SHOCK – This Generation's On Vacation
SODS – Television Sect 
AMBIENT NOISE – I Was There At The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
THE QUEERs – I Don't Wanna Work 
THE QUEERS – I'm Useless 
THE QUEERS – At The Mall 
EBENEZER & THE BLUDGEONs – Oh I Love This Weather 
NY NIGGERS – Headliner 
SCREAMIN' MEE-MEES – Hot Sody 
VIOLATORS – NY Ripper 
JOHN BERENZY GROUP – Vice Verses