In an interview with May The Rock Be With You, Hale said the band had a different concept of 'heavy' thing time around. "When we were talking about making songs heavier, it didn't necessarily mean stacks of Mesa Boogies and a lot of crunch and layers and walls of guitars," she said.

"It means the weightiness of the heaviness, the Sabbath, the Zeppelin and I guess the Judas Priest aspect." It also meant there were only two rules in place for the recording: "we're not going to record the record in the same way that we did the last two, and is it good or not?"