The following week, Leviathan and Ellefson, along with a session drummer David Small, who was in F5 at the time with Ellefson, met in the studio and recorded the song during a 10-hour session. At the end of the day Leviathan played Ellefson a new song he had written (Queen of the Insane). The two agreed that they would meet again in a couple of weeks to record it. This process, which began in December 2002, continued through September 2003; every few weeks, the guys would get together in the studio and record a song, sometimes two.