Following its production, the members of the band maintained that they were satisfied with their fifth full-length studio effort, 1989's "Rabies". In 1990, keyboardist Dwayne Goettel stated the following regarding the band's attitude towards the album: "we all like it, and I can see the worry in people's eyes, but it doesn't worry us. We did it, and we like it, and I'm not worried about doing another just like it, you know?" He proclaimed "Rabies" to be his favorite out of all other Skinny Puppy albums and went on to say that he would not mind "doing another just like it". Goettel told Karen Woods of "Alternative Press" that he didn't feel "trapped" by the direction taken on "Rabies" and went on to say that "it album may have been hanging around in the same territory as Ministry, but we were just crossing paths".