Prior to recording, Cryoshell was best known for producing soundtrack music for Bionicle, a popular series of construction toys manufactured by Lego, that featured in the promotional material for various sets released between 2007 and 2009.

After releasing the song "Closer to the Truth" under the band name Cryoshell for Bionicle's Mistika wave in October 2008, the group announced plans to record a full-length album.

Additionally, there were plans to re-record "Face Me" and "Gravity Hurts", two other songs used by Bionicle but originally sung by Danish singer Niels Brinck, with Lorentzen, but they were ultimately scrapped.

Each track on the album is generally a rock song of alternative and symphonic styles, as well as cinematic-like elements that stem from neoclassical metal and power pop.

The album's opening number "Creeping in My Soul" was written by keyboardist Mikkel Maltha with established Danish composer Anthony Lledo in 2006, originally for Bionicle's Barraki marketing campaign.

Labelled as a progressive rock song, its lyrics allude to the franchise's 2007 story of taking place deep under the sea and what mysteries the seabed might hold.

Søderlund co-wrote the melodic track "Murky" with Maltha, the latter of whom penned the soft rock ballad "The Room" and the more symphonic number "Closer to the Truth", the latter of which was originally composed for Bionicle's 2008 Mistika campaign, and like "Creeping in My Soul", alludes to story elements from the franchise.

Cryoshell released the digital extended play Creeping in My Soul on January 5, 2010, serving as a teaser for the then-forthcoming album by featuring five completed songs.

The band later announced that the album would be re-issued globally under Greek record label, The Leaders, with two bonus tracks – "Breakout" (singly released in December 2012) and a remix of "Gravity Hurts" – both featuring Danish singer Tine Midtgaard filling in for Lorentzen while the latter took maternity leave.

They praised lead singer Christine Lorentzen's vocal talents "[soaring] above the instrument mixes," especially on the tracks "Trigger" and "Falling", and how the band "has bigger things in mind than mere promotional songs" and that "String synthesizers, broken chords played on the piano, and driving background electric guitars set an eerie yet powerful mood throughout the album."

[9] Gaffa gave a mixed review' calling Cryoshell "the Danish equivalent of Evanescence" and classifying them as product placement due to their history with working with Lego.

[12] Stiften described the album as "Heavy and lumbering pathos rock on a bed of melodic keyboard surfaces and strings" calling it "Not a bad offer... [but] does nothing new under the sun relative to the template-band Evanescence who have to suffer the indignity of seeing the shame-plagiarized on Cryoshell's debut.

[8] Eyes from the Mosh Pit stated the album has "slick riffs, pounding drums and very dramatic almost end of the world themed lyrics," the tracks with stringed compositions had "a apocalyptic feel" and praised "Bye Bye Babylon" and "Closer to the Truth" as stand out songs in terms of their orchestral arrangements as "they add a film score-like quality to [the tracks]," and gave the album a total of 7 out of 10 stars.

RavenHeart Music gave the album a perfect 10 out of 10 score, calling it "one of the best debuts for years" and that Cryoshell "have the songs, the sound and the look and could make the USA their own with this record alone" while also praising Lorenzten's vocals as "magnificent" with contrasts to Cristina Scabbia and Shania Twain.