Formed in 1982, The Doomsday Vault played a small part in the 'home-taping' scene, in which experimental artists - lacking the support of record labels and reviewers - would pass their work between each other via cassette tapes posted in the mail. Many of these albums never saw a 'proper' release, and 'music for living Sculptures' was just such an obscurity. The Doomsday Vault parted ways only a couple of years later and like many such acts, there was no indication the album had survived at all, until a single copy was unearthed from the collection of the composer Bjorn Fencer, after his death in 2020.

In 2023, The Doomsday Vault reformed (now a duo) and are tentatively working on a new album.