The band recorded its debut album between November 1997 and February 1998 at The Ground Hog Studio in Holland, Pennsylvania. Speaking about the recording process to Guitar.com, Miller explained that the whole album took around two years to finish, mainly due to financial challenges, and that the writing process totalled up to four years. Many of the sessions were funded by the frontman's father. The music's first exposure came in one of Bam Margera's early stunt videos, "Jump Off a Building", which featured the track "Genesis 12a"; Margera would later enlist the band to provide music for his later videos, including the first "CKY" video in 1999. CKY's debut albums, "Volume 1" and "Volume 2", were released in February 1999, made up mostly of the tracks featured in Bam's videos.