Frontman Chris Fronzak explained the band had a more organic and old school approach to writing this album. He explained, "We sat down in a room together and asked, 'What did we do when we wrote the first few albums that we don't do anymore?' We realized the thing we'd stopped doing was getting together and jamming in a basement. It's so easy for bands to sit around a computer and create music. It's too easy to forget to jam the songs in person, on real instruments. Everything about CHAOS is real, because we all met up in Georgia, right near the basement where we used to meet up when we were living off Taco Bell."