The album features reworked and re-recorded material from the group's previous demo-release Here Won No One, as well as reworked material written between 2007 and 2010. Its name is a reference to the computer science concept of recursion, and alludes to conflict that feeds back into itself.
A number of the samples from "Normalcy" are taken from home video recordings by David Koresh
A sample from the beginning of "The Shroud" was taken from the 1991 segment of Unsolved Mysteries entitled "Allagash Abductions", and the end of the song samples part of the Jim Jones suicide recording.