"Inferno" was Motörhead's first album with Cameron Webb producing. Webb told Joel McIver of "Classic Rock Presents Motörhead" in 2010 that he had wanted to make an album with the band for years and met them for dinner at the Sunset Marquis Hotel to discuss the possibility of working together: "I talked about how I wanted to make a really heavy record with them. That was a mistake, because Lemmy likes to play rock 'n' roll – he doesn't like to play heavy music – and he called me on it."