In 2002, Modell, previously a touring bassist for Soilent Green, unsatisfied with the music his band was making, recruited Kubacki and Dafferner to form a side project called Car Bomb.

[3] According to Doug Moore, writing for Invisible Oranges, "Each member [of the band] works a technologically-inclined professional day job, which restricts their schedules but offers them uncommon financial resources.

w^w^^w^w is supposedly pronounced 'w click w', but guitarist Greg Kubacki mentioned "a lot of people are now calling it the 'waveform record,' which works too.

Duplantier had a guest vocal appearance for the second Car Bomb album in a row, and Frank Mullen from Suffocation joined the band in the studio for the first time.

It was recorded at Silvercord Studios, written/produced by Greg Kubacki and mixed by Adam "Nolly" Getgood (Periphery, Devin Townsend, Animals as Leaders).

The band headlined their own European tour starting in September 2019, before returning to the US in October to support Periphery and Animals as Leaders.