Rapture came into existence in late 1990, when Brandi became a part of Puss In Boots, the raunchy, hard-edged rock band comprised of Clarisse, Donita, and Katheryne, and the four decided to take things to the next level.  Puss In Boots was quite the notorious band during its six months of existence following the departure of Donita and Katheryne from the original Hollywood Vampires lineup, as they were an all-female rock group, which in and of itself was unusual on the male-dominated L.A. music scene, that had a reputation of being able to rock harder, louder, and meaner than just about any all-male band out there.  Though they were only a three-piece, Puss In Boots could rip it up better than bands with four or five members, and their wild stage shows, which included fire, explosions, flesh aplenty, and lecherous antics from Donita, built them a very solid, though somewhat small, following.  The band, which had Clarisse on lead guitar, Donita on bass and vocals, and Katheryne on drums,  released one EP, entitled This Kitty Bites, and were starting to make a good dent in the rock scene around L.A. when Brandi came to town and was invited to join Puss In Boots, as she was quite skilled on the bass and Donita was looking to play a regular six-string again as opposed to the four-string.  Brandi accepted, and a new chemistry emerged in the band, which began to steadily grow louder and more aggressive than before, and they started to abandon hard rock altogether, save for the older Motley Crue covers that began to become a staple of their sets, and within two months Puss In Boots had mutated into something that had more in favor with an all-out, riff-drenched heavy metal band than the dark glam/raunch rock outfit they'd began as.

It was at this point that Brandi really made her presence in the band felt, as she began to come up with all sorts of ideas as to what the fearsome foursome could do with Puss In Boots, and she not only penned several of the songs that would end up forming the nucleus of the new band's first album, Sisters In Blood, but after watching an old Motley Crue bootleg video from the Shout At The Devil era, she even designed stage outfits for the entire band, inspired by the wicked and wild togs that the Crue sported back in the day.  Gone were the tight, extremely revealing, and slinky outfits; they were replaced by costumes composed of leather, metal, and denim, designed to be flattering but menacing and imposing at the same time, and the setlist was totally revamped, with an emphasis on songs that went straight for the throat, no mercy allowed.  The attitude was different, too . . . the gals wanted to outdo everybody on the Strip when it came to sheer power, finesse, and danger.  They wanted to become as notorious as W.A.S.P. (Katheryne's all-time favorite band) and Motley Crue were in their early days, and they had an agenda on their minds . . . domination and destruction.  The only thing needed before they re-introduced themselves to the music scene was a name, because Puss In Boots simply didn't fit them any more, and after much bandying around of names, Rapture was chosen because, in the words of Donita, "it sounded pretty neat."  The new band was nearly called the Necrosluts, which was Brandi's favorite choice, but when Clarisse threw Rapture down on the table, the name was almost instantly adopted, though Brandi did a little bit of grumbling at first until she came around.  The first gig was at the Roxy, the traditional stomping grounds of the Hollywood Vampires, and Rapture was set to open for the Vampires.  The Vampires never got to play that night because when Donita used her magick to start off the fire effects at the end of their set-closing "Inferno," the stage went up in a blaze as the gals had gone a bit overboard when it came to the pyro and Donita had gotten overy-enthusiastic due to the tremendous response they'd gotten from the crowd.  While the Roxy's crew was frantically trying to put the fire out, Stacey and Steele stood up on their table and lead the crowd in a screaming chant of "Encore!  Encore!"  No encores were played, as the stage was a wreck, and while the Hollywood Vampires didn't get to play their set, everybody went home happy and impressed.

Rapture is not signed to any record label, and therefore their releases are very limited in quantity.  The girls take care of everything themselves, including production, mastering, and distribution, and they call their little outfit "Bloodbath Records," and along with Venus d'Morte (Clarisse's solo work), are the sole band on the "label," though other bands have asked to join in the past.  The artwork on their album covers, with one exception, have all been paintings by Donita, ranging from the eerily beautiful to downright visceral, depending on the gypsy's mood when she makes them.  The exception to this was when Rapture completely redid Motley Crue's classic Shout At The Devil and had an album cover made which looked exactly like the original, except with their pictures and band logo on it instead, and Katheryne and Clarisse were responsible for that.  The albums and EPs aren't too hard to come by if you know the right places to look and the right people to talk to, and copies of them are fairly easy to come by, as Rapture actively encourages people to bootleg their albums and shows for everybody to listen to.