[4] For the first time, the album would be a product of collaborative writing; the band wrote "about half" of the material on the 2001 Foot in Mouth Tour, and the rest at home, starting January 2002.

[1] Initial writing for the album reached as far back as 2000, when the track "Idom" was released on the soundtrack for Tekkōki Mikazuki; this is a demo containing pieces later used for "Dire," "Consequence," and "Aftermath."

The raw production style in particular is different from other records Devin has produced; he would later on call the album "murky" and "dreadful sounding"[7] and claimed that he "phoned [it] in".

[4] The slightly different sound on this album can in part be attributed to the fact that second guitarist Jed Simon plays the vast majority of rhythm guitars.

[21] All tracks are written by Strapping Young LadChris Valagao Mina, Ani Kyd, Tammy Theis, Marnie Mains, Carla Levis, and Laurielynn Bridger.