Editing Underground Network (section)

== Background ==
In 2000, Anti-Flag went on the [[Vans Warped Tour]], where they met [[Fat Mike]], head of [[Fat Wreck Chords]]. The band had originally tried to get their previous album, [[A New Kind of Army]], released on the label, but Mike had turned them down, offering to release it on [[Honest Don's Records]] due to the band being different than the other bands on Fat.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Corey|title=The Anti-Flag Interview: Justin Sane Speaks|url=https://www.theinertia.com/music-art/the-anti-flag-interview-justin-sane-speaks/|access-date=2020-09-04|website=The Inertia|date=5 September 2014 |language=en-US}}</ref> Instead, the band released the album on [[Go-Kart Records]] and [[A-F Records]], their own label. Mike told them on the tour that he had been impressed with them turning him down, and offered to release their next album on Fat.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A New Kind of Army (Part One)|url=https://idobi.com/podcast/017-a-new-kind-of-army-part-one/|access-date=2020-09-04|website=idobi.com|language=en-US}}</ref> The band accepted, and they went into the studio in November of that year to start recording. Having co-produced their last 2 albums with Joe West, the band asked [[Squirtgun]] bassist and producer [[Mass Giorgini]] to produce the album, in order to make them sound better. According to Justin, "I could write half decent songs. The problem was that we couldn't play them very well. Luckily...Mass Giorgini found a way to help us sound like better musicians than we were at the time."