[1] The album and its title track are centered around themes of human consumption and its "devastating results" on the planet.

[1] Original bassist Jeff Pearce, who had left the band during the production of Glory Under Dangerous Skies, returned for End of the Ocean.

Moist vocalist and lyricist David Usher explained that during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, he went on a Quentin Tarantino binge, and "the song came out of a dream sparked by those images where we have lost all sense of ourselves – where there are no limits on our consumption and all we want is more.

The music video for the song employs footage from Mateo Guez's 2009 film Off World, shot at Manila’s Smokey Mountain landfill, once home to 30,000 people before its removal in 2009.

Usher speaks on the human desire to make money "at the expense of the planet," including the latest non-fungible token trend.